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Overcoming Self-Doubt and Shame: An Attachment and Trauma-Sensitive Approach
Therapy Mastermind Circle with Dr. Ron Seigel
Overcoming Self-Doubt and Shame: An Attachment and Trauma-Sensitive Approach
Help clients step off the self-esteem roller coaster and build more stable, compassionate sources of well-being—without reinforcing the same cycles of self-judgment, comparison and shame.
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Attachment & Trauma Mastery Training

TMC
Overcoming Self-Doubt and Shame: An Attachment and Trauma-Sensitive Approach
Help clients step off the self-esteem roller coaster and build more stable, compassionate sources of well-being—without reinforcing the same cycles of self-judgment, comparison and shame.
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Dr. Ron Siegel
Instructor

Ronald D. Siegel, PsyD, is Assistant Professor of Psychology, part-time, at Harvard Medical School, where he has taught for over 35 years. He is a nationally and internationally recognized teacher in mindfulness-based psychotherapy and mind-body approaches to emotional healing.

A long-time practitioner of mindfulness meditation, Dr. Siegel serves on the Board of Directors and faculty of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy and teaches at the Center for Mindfulness and Compassion at Cambridge Health Alliance and the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Through his teaching, writing, and clinical work, he helps clinicians integrate mindfulness and compassion-based practices into effective, trauma-sensitive care.

His clinical experience includes working with diverse populations, from low-income families to adults with chronic pain and stress-related conditions. He maintains a private clinical practice in Lincoln, Massachusetts, where he offers mindfulness-oriented psychotherapy.

Dr. Siegel is the author of several widely respected books, including The Extraordinary Gift of Being Ordinary and The Mindfulness Solution, and coeditor of Mindfulness and Psychotherapy. His work supports clinicians in understanding and working with complex emotional suffering in ways that are grounded, practical, and deeply human.

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Enrollment Closes:

May 11, 2026

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Cancellation & Refund Policy

We’re confident this program will be a valuable investment in your education, personal growth and clinical practice. You have 30 days from the start of the first class to contact our Customer Support Team for a full refund if you feel the program does not meet your needs—no questions asked.

If for any reason you decide to withdraw, simply contact our Customer Support Team in writing.  Refunds will be issued in the same form of payment made, and may take up to four weeks to process.

May 12, 2026
Virtual Event

Membership enrollment opens just twice a year, with new topics offered every 6 months.

Small Group Online Training
• Therapy Mastermind Circle Membership
CE Credits:
 8 Hours**
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Overcoming Self-Doubt and Shame: An Attachment and Trauma-Sensitive Approach

Summary

Here’s what’s included for just $77/month…

Six LIVE 2-hour Interactive Training Sessions, plus Q&A with Dr. Ron Siegal

Each month, join Dr. Ron Siegel for a LIVE, two-hour online training focused on a core dimension of self-evaluation, shame, attachment, and healing. These sessions include direct teaching, experiential learning, and time for live Q&A.

You’ll explore how patterns of self-judgment, comparison, and identity take shape, and how to work with them in clinically effective, trauma-sensitive ways. Each session builds on the last, offering a clear and structured learning arc across the full six months.

Can’t attend live? No problem—video and audio recordings are always available in your personal learning dashboard.

Guided Experiential Practices + Clinical Demonstrations

This training is designed to be lived, not just understood. Through guided mindfulness and self-compassion practices, you’ll engage directly with the material in ways that deepen both personal insight and clinical application.

Dr. Siegel will integrate case examples and demonstration work to help you recognize how self-evaluative patterns show up in real time, and how to respond with greater clarity, steadiness, and skill.

These experiential components support your ability to translate concepts into practice, so you can work more effectively with clients navigating shame, self-doubt, and patterns of collapse and overcompensation.

Continue the discussion with your peers in optional small group breakouts!

Private Course Portal with Downloadable Access to Video, Audio, Transcripts + Handouts and Course Resources

Every live training will be recorded. The recorded replay will be available in video, audio, and written format—so you’ll be able to access content 24/7/365 when you need it.

If you miss a training session, want to download transcripts and use them for reference and note-taking––or you want to revisit the demos for specific cases at a later date––you’ll be able to do so at your convenience.

Date / Time

Tuesday, May 12 2026
Prerequisite: None

This training is open to both licensed professionals and non-therapists. While the material is designed for those supporting others in a clinical or healing capacity, you don’t need to be a therapist to attend.

Who Is This For?

  • Therapists and Trauma Clinicians: You work with shame, perfectionism, chronic self-criticism, or clients who never quite feel like enough, and want a more grounded way to understand and work with these patterns.
  • Attachment-Based and Relational Therapists: You want a deeper framework for understanding both fragile and defensive self-structures, and how they shape clinical presentation and relationship.
  • Integrative Practitioners (Somatic, Psychodynamic, Mindfulness, IFS, EMDR, Integrative): You’re looking for a way to work with self-evaluative suffering that integrates with your existing approach, without needing to replace your model.
  • Seasoned Clinicians: You recognize how therapist self-doubt, professional pressure, and client shame can become intertwined in treatment, and want greater clarity and steadiness in your clinical presence.
  • Early-Career Practitioners and Supervisors: You want a strong conceptual map, along with practical ways to apply it in real clinical situations.

Learning Objectives

  • Describe the neurobiological and evolutionary roots of self-evaluation, shame, and self-doubt.
  • Explain how attachment disruptions and trauma shape self-narratives, relational expectations, and vulnerability to shame.
  • Identify how self-criticism, collapse, defensiveness, and overcompensation can arise from the same protective system.
  • Differentiate self-compassion from self-esteem enhancement as clinical approaches to shame and self-doubt.
  • Apply mindfulness and body-aware interventions to help clients relate differently to self-critical thoughts and emotionally charged evaluative states.
  • Recognize how shame and self-evaluation present in the therapy room through language, affect, posture, relational style, and compensatory behaviors.
  • Support clients in moving from impression management and chronic comparison toward greater authenticity, connection, and common humanity.
  • Assess the role of therapist self-doubt and professional self-evaluation in shaping clinical presence and therapeutic effectiveness.
  • Integrate attachment-informed, trauma-sensitive strategies for working with shame and self-doubt into a range of clinical modalities, including psychodynamic, relational, somatic, mindfulness-informed, IFS, EMDR, and CBT-oriented work.
  • Formulate a treatment approach that helps clients shift from chronic self-evaluation toward more stable sources of meaning, purpose, and well-being.
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What is Therapy Mastermind Circle?

An annual online program where we meet monthly to explore pressing topics, share expert learning, and gain practical skills to help you and your clients thrive.

Explore a variety of deep and complex topics—highly relevant to your practice, and not covered often in traditional training programs.

Learn directly from Dr. Diane Poole Heller and other renowned experts ready to share years of professional, clinical experience.

Integrate new skills and highly effective corrective exercises and interventions with existing modalities to help clients grow and thrive despite their past trauma.

Get access to a comprehensive library of tools and training resources like slides, worksheets, and videos––plus, client case studies, clinical demos, interventions, and experiential exercises.

Join a supportive, friendly and engaged community of like-minded professionals where you can network, practice new skills, and support each other’s healing journeys.

Stay current with the latest training tools and approaches—plus, you can earn up to 12 CE credits every six months as you complete each training topic module.

Enrollment is only open twice a year––and topics rotate every 6 months to provide fresh perspectives, tools, techniques, and learning!

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Continuing Education (CE) Credit Info

Do you need CE credits?

Licensed mental health professionals may be able to purchase 8 CE credit hours for this program for an additional fee of $89.

Course Level: Beginning to Advanced Practice Professionals

Target Audience: Psychologists, Social Workers and Other Licensed Mental Health Professionals

Continuing Education Credit is approved for the
following professionals**

  • Licensed Clinical Professional Counselors
  • Licensed Clinical Social Workers
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**STUDENTS MUST ATTEND ALL LIVE COURSE HOURS TO RECEIVE CE CREDIT. Trauma Solutions is unable to award partial Continuing Education credits. Students will ONLY receive CEs for live training modules that they have attended all hours live online.

Frequently Asked Questions

Therapy Mastermind Circle is an annual online training and community for trauma and attachment professionals. Each topic runs for six months, with monthly live sessions hosted on Zoom where you’ll learn from Dr. Diane Poole Heller and invited experts who bring years of clinical experience to their teaching.

Every session includes live instruction, experiential exercises, and Q&A, with opportunities for small-group breakout practice alongside your peers. You’ll also have access to a private learning portal in Kajabi, where you can submit questions, review recorded sessions at your own pace, and download materials like slides, worksheets, and transcripts.

Membership provides ongoing access to an engaged community of like-minded clinicians, plus a growing library of demos, interventions, and case studies designed to deepen your skill set.

Enrollment opens twice a year, and topics rotate every six months—each offering new perspectives, methods, and tools to help you and your clients thrive.

No you do not. While most members are mental-health professionals (therapists, counselors, social workers, psychologists, MFTs), related professionals and advanced coaches who work with attachment and trauma are welcome. This program is professional education—not therapy for the general public.

Since this particular cohort includes live demos, small group breakout sessions and experiential teaching, we do encourage any non-therapists who choose to join us to have therapeutic support in place, as the material covered during our time together is not meant as a substitute for therapy. If you are currently working with a mental health professional, we encourage you to invite them to join this program as well.

Each monthly live session will be streamed live via Zoom online (see curriculum for scheduled dates). Additionally, you’ll be able to submit questions each week through the private course portal and during the live monthly session, which always includes time for Q&A.

Every call will be recorded and stored inside the private course portal, so you may review it at your own pace. However, we highly recommend you attend live so you don’t miss live teaching and the opportunity to participate in breakout sessions with your peers.

We meet once a month on Tuesdays from 11:00 am–1:00 pm MT.
For this topic series, the live dates are:

Month 1: May 12, 2026 · The Self-Evaluation Trap: Evolution, Attachment, and the Roots of Self-Doubt

Month 2: June 16, 2026 · Stepping Off the Self-Esteem Roller Coaster: Mindfulness of Thoughts and Emotions in the Body

Month 3: July 14, 2026 · Trauma, Attachment, and the Development of Self Narratives

Month 4: August 11, 2026 · Self-Compassion: Discovering Common Humanity as an Antidote to Shame

Month 5: September 1, 2026 · Make a Connection, Not an Impression: Healing in Relationship

Month 6: Tuesday, October 20, 2026 · Enjoying the Extraordinary Gift of Being Ordinary: Cultivating Meaning and Purpose

Each class includes teaching, a demo (live or recorded), experiential practice, Q&A, and optional breakout sessions. 

We’d love for you to join each session live, but if you’re unable to, that’s okay. All sessions and training calls, including Q&A, are recorded and stored in your personal learning portal (Kajabi), so you can access the full teaching and coaching experience anytime.

Program materials—including audio recordings, video replays, and transcripts from each session—are yours to download and keep within your portal. For privacy reasons, demo videos are view-only and may not be downloaded.

You can also submit questions directly through Kajabi outside of live sessions. It’s a supportive space to ask questions, share insights, and connect with Dr. Siegel, Dr. Heller, and your colleagues throughout the program.

Yes. You’ll have access to our members-only discussion space inside Kajabi (your learning portal) and occasional pop-up Zoom office hours/Q&A threads. It’s a supportive, professional environment—great for clarifying how to apply an intervention in your setting.

Only the LIVE, ONLINE sessions for this course have been approved for a total of 8 CE credit hours. If you are a licensed clinical professional counselor or a licensed social worker—you may purchase these CE credits for an additional fee of $89 via our website.

CE credits must be purchased by the beginning of the last live session. Attendance will be taken to verify eligibility.

Upon completion of the program, you will be sent an activity evaluation link, which must be completed within 60 days after the last program session. Upon completion of the activity evaluation, participants can print their certificate or statement of credit immediately.

Also, a Certificate of Completion is available to all students at the end of the course upon request at no additional charge.

Note: It is the participants responsibility to check their individual state boards to verify CE requirements for their state. For detailed information regarding CEs, please contact our Customer Support Team.

Yes. We can invoice for group enrollments and help with CE documentation. Please contact our Customer Support Team for simple group options.

We do offer a limited number of partial scholarships for students who attend an accredited university. Reduced enrollment rates are also available for those with limited resources in countries defined as low and lower middle income by the World Bank. Please contact our Customer Support Team for more information.

If you have additional questions or need technical support, please contact our Customer Support Team for more information.

We’re confident this program will be a valuable investment in your education, personal growth and clinical practice. You have 30 days from the start of the first class to contact our Customer Support Team for a full refund if you feel the program does not meet your needs—no questions asked.

If for any reason you decide to withdraw, simply contact our Customer Support Team in writing.  Refunds will be issued in the same form of payment made, and may take up to four weeks to process.

Do you have additional questions?
Please contact our friendly Customer Support Team. 

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