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Trauma, Shame, and Healing: A Therapist's Guide

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Shame can have a profound and complex impact on clients who have experienced trauma. It often exacerbates the distress caused by trauma and can impede the healing process. As such, addressing the role that shame plays in a client’s trauma and recovery process is a critical aspect of therapy. Internalized feelings of self-blame and guilt can distort self-image and self-esteem. This can lead to a pervasive sense of unworthiness, self-sabotaging, avoidance behaviors, and a belief that one is undeserving of a better life. In this presentation, Katelyn Baxter-Musser, LCSW will provide you with clinical skills and practical strategies to recognize the presence of shame and provide clients with tools to reduce shame and build resilience. During this presentation clinicians will also review the importance of self-care and maintaining their own well-being while working in this challenging field.

This course is based on the recorded webinar, Trauma, Shame, and Healing: A Therapist's Guide created by Katelyn Baxter-Musser in 2024.

Publication Details

Publication Date: First Apr 2024

Course Material Author

Katelyn Baxter-Musser

Katelyn is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Katelyn’s clinical experience includes working for ten years in various roles as a case manager, child and family therapist, trauma therapist and clinical coordinator. Katelyn has worked in agencies, on Native American reservations and currently is in private practice. Katelyn works with children starting at age 4, adolescents and adults. Katelyn works with people individually, as a couple or as a family.

Katelyn is trained in and uses a variety of therapeutic modalities including DBT, CBT, TF-CBT, Mindfulness, and EMDR. She specializes in working with trauma, PTSD, depression, anxiety, dissociative disorders, personality disorders, grief & relationship issues. Katelyn works to help clients process a variety of traumatic and difficult experiences that cause people to feel stuck in their daily life.

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Target Audience

Counselors, marriage and family therapists, psychologists and social workers. This course is appropriate for intermediate and above levels of knowledge.

Learning Objectives

After taking this activity, you should be able to:

  1. 1 Discuss the concept of shame, its origins, and its role in exacerbating trauma in individuals
  2. 2 List evidence-based strategies and interventions to address shame effectively in the context of trauma.
  3. 3 Demonstrate skills to manage and prevent secondary trauma, burnout, and compassion fatigue.

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The planners of this activity have reported that they have no relevant financial relationships.

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Katelyn Baxter-Musser – No disclosures to report.

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Iowa Social Work Board of Examiners

3 CE credit hours Clinical
Eligible until Feb 1st, 2028
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3 Social Worker CE credit hours Clinical
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Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB ACE)

3 CE credit hours Clinical
Eligible until Feb 1st, 2028
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, CE Learning Systems LLC is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this course receive 3 clinical continuing education credit(s).
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