Overcome Core Shame and Reconstruct the Authentic Self! If you are treating anxiety, depression, mood disorders, relationship difficulties, chronic low self-esteem, or other challenges, this workbook will give you proven tools and techniques you need to help your clients overcome the shadow of shame. Help clients overcome chronic feelings of not being good enough and debilitating negative thought patterns that may have begun in childhood. Combining 40 years of experience as an educator, child development specialist, and clinician, Dr. Patti Ashley created Shame-Informed Therapy: Treatment Strategies to Overcome Core Shame and Reconstruct the Authentic Self to help clinicians crack the code on the often unseen and unspoken aspects of core shame, and develop more effective treatment for even your most resistant clients.
- Understand, demystify, and treat the neurobiology of core shame
- Work with Polyvagal Theory and the Four Therapeutic R’s: Recognize, Respect, Regulate, & Re-Story
- Individualize somatic techniques that build and sustain self-compassion
- Develop therapeutic empathy and balance power in the therapy room
- Recognize how shame-informed therapy is a Hero’s Journey

Shame-Informed Therapy is skillfully read by Sonja Field, and was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont. Audio engineering by Gavin Skal.