Therapy Mastermind Circle

Join Dr. Ron Siegel and Dr. Diane Poole Heller for…

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.

Includes 6 monthly calls with lectures, LIVE demos, and optional small group breakout sessions!

Understanding the Deeper System Behind Shame, Self-Doubt, and Self-Evaluation

Have you worked with clients who understand the pattern but still can’t escape it?

They know they’re hard on themselves. They can name the shame spiral. They can see the comparison habit. They may even recognize how much of their suffering revolves around proving themselves, people-pleasing, or avoiding failure.

And still, when life presses on the tender places, the cycle returns.
They strive. They collapse. They criticize themselves. They overcompensate. They don’t feel good enough. Then they look for relief by trying harder, performing better, or feeling more special—only to crash again when that relief doesn’t last.

Too often, the work stays stuck at the level of insight.

The client understands. The therapist understands. But the deeper system, the one shaped by attachment, biology, shame, and the mind’s habit of self-evaluation, keeps running underneath it all.

And that’s where so many of us need a better map.

No matter how long you’ve been in practice, this is hard territory

Self-doubt and inflated self-esteem may look like opposites on the surface.

In practice, they often arise from the same core struggle: the need to evaluate our worth, compare ourselves to others, and avoid shame. That struggle is not only personal. It is developmental, relational, and cultural.

Early attachment wounds can amplify the brain’s natural sensitivity to status, belonging, rejection, and not-enoughness. Cultural messaging then piles on, reinforcing the idea that our value must always be earned, displayed, or defended.

And therapists are not outside of this system.

Many of us know the subtle pull of professional self-doubt in the room:

• Am I helping enough?
• Am I doing this right?
• Why does this case still feel stuck?
• What does it mean if I can’t get this client to feel better about themselves?

This training is designed to help with that too.

What if you had a more grounded way to work with shame and self-evaluation?

What if, instead of trying to “boost” self-esteem, you could help clients become less trapped by the need to evaluate themselves at all?

What if you could recognize both collapse and overcompensation as protective strategies—not character flaws?

What if you had a clearer, more compassionate framework for working with shame-based and grandiose presentations, therapist adequacy concerns, and the deeper longing beneath them both?

That is the focus of this six-part Therapy Mastermind Circle series.

Drawing on attachment theory, contemplative practice, psychodynamic and relational perspectives, and trauma-sensitive clinical application, Dr. Ron Siegel will help you understand how self-evaluation takes hold—and how to loosen it.

This is not about helping clients feel special. It is about helping them become freer from the exhausting burden of having to prove their worth.

“Practicing alternatives to self-evaluation, we can discover the joys of savoring the present moment, connecting more deeply to other people, experiencing gratitude for our lives, and tasting the wonderful freedom that comes from everything no longer being about us.”

– Ronald D. Siegel, The Extraordinary Gift of Being Ordinary

To understand and work with the deeper system of shame and self-evaluation, we must…

Understand the self-evaluation trap Learn how shame, comparison, and fluctuating self-esteem become hidden drivers in many presenting problems.
See collapse and grandiosity as related strategies Recognize why self-criticism, defensiveness, overcompensation, and narcissistic protection can emerge from the same core system.
Work with the body, not just the story Use mindfulness, somatic tracking, and body awareness to help clients relate differently to thoughts and emotions.

Address attachment wounds directly Understand how early relational experiences shape self-narratives and intensify sensitivity to rejection, failure, and not-enoughness.
Strengthen authentic connection Create therapeutic environments where clients can move from impression management to relationship, common humanity, and meaning.
Notice the therapist’s own self-evaluation dynamics Develop greater steadiness, humility, and presence in the face of our own adequacy concerns as clinicians.

The next 6-month topic in our annual membership series:

Overcoming Self-Doubt and Shame

An Attachment and Trauma-Sensitive Approach

Led by Dr. Ronald D. Siegel, with Dr. Diane Poole Heller joining select sessions

A six-session live training for helping professionals who want a deeper, more clinically useful framework for working with shame, self-comparison, self-criticism, and the exhausting cycles of boost and collapse that keep so many clients stuck.

Here’s What We’ll Cover In The Next 6 Months

Throughout this series, Dr. Ron Siegel will guide the core teaching arc, and Dr. Diane Poole Heller will join select sessions—including the later relational and integration-focused classes—to help bridge Dr. Siegel’s framework into attachment-informed clinical practice. Their dialogue will bring added depth to the work, especially as the series turns toward self-compassion, relational healing, and the movement from self-evaluation into authentic connection.

All LIVE monthly sessions meet online for 2 hours on Tuesdays
at 1 pm ET / 12 pm CT / 11 am MT / 10 am PT.

MONTH 1: Tuesday, May 12, 2026

The Self-Evaluation Trap: Evolution, Attachment, and the Roots of Self-Doubt

We begin with the deeper architecture of shame and self-evaluation. Why are human beings so vulnerable to comparison, status anxiety, and the fear of falling short? And how do attachment wounds intensify these tendencies?

This session lays the groundwork for the full series by exploring the neurobiological and evolutionary roots of self-evaluation, along with the relational experiences that shape fragile and compensatory self-structures.

You’ll begin to understand why self-doubt and narcissistic defenses can arise from the same protective system, and why both can quietly shape the therapy room.

You’ll learn to:

Describe the neurobiological and evolutionary roots of self-evaluation and shame
Recognize how attachment wounds amplify sensitivity to rejection and social rank
Understand why self-doubt and grandiosity often belong to the same underlying pattern
Build a clear conceptual map for the rest of the series

MONTH 2 · Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Stepping Off the Self-Esteem Roller Coaster: Mindfulness of Thoughts and Emotions in the Body

Trying to think our way out of shame rarely works for long.

In this session, Dr. Siegel will introduce a mindfulness-based, body-aware approach to working with self-critical thoughts and emotionally charged evaluative states. Rather than trying to suppress or out-argue them, you’ll learn how to help clients notice, tolerate, and relate differently to them.

This creates room for less reactivity, more choice, and a different kind of steadiness.

You’ll learn to:

Help clients notice evaluative thoughts without automatically believing them
Use mindfulness and somatic awareness to interrupt boost-collapse cycles
Support more grounded and less defended forms of self-experience
Track shame, striving, and collapse in the body

MONTH 3 · Tuesday, July 14, 2026

Trauma, Attachment, and the Development of Self Narratives

Clients do not merely “have thoughts” about themselves. They live inside self-narratives shaped by early relationships, trauma, and adaptation.

This session explores how attachment and trauma shape the stories people tell about who they are—stories of inadequacy, failure, specialness, invisibility, exceptionality, or defectiveness.

You’ll learn how to hear these narratives more clearly and work with them in ways that create movement rather than further entrenchment.

You’ll learn to:

Identify self-narratives shaped by trauma and attachment disruption
Understand how shame becomes organized into identity
Recognize fragile and grandiose self-structures in clinical presentations
Work more skillfully with narrative rigidity and shame-based meaning making

MONTH 4 · Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Self-Compassion: Discovering Common Humanity as an Antidote to Shame

When shame isolates, self-compassion reconnects.

This session focuses on self-compassion not as a slogan or a “nice idea,” but as a clinically relevant antidote to the loneliness, harshness, and distortion that shame creates.

Dr. Siegel will help participants explore how common humanity, humility, and tenderness can become real therapeutic resources—for both client and clinician.

In this session, Dr. Diane Poole Heller joins Dr. Ron Siegel to explore how self-compassion and common humanity intersect with attachment repair and trauma healing in clinical practice.

You’ll learn to:

Differentiate self-compassion from self-indulgence or self-esteem boosting
Use common humanity as an antidote to isolation and shame, helping clients feel less alone in their experience
Help clients soften chronic self-attack without bypassing pain, allowing space for both honesty and care
Work with compassion practices in a trauma-sensitive way, supporting safety, pacing, and integration

MONTH 5 · Tuesday, September 1, 2026

Make a Connection, Not an Impression: Healing in Relationship

Healing doesn’t happen by trying to look better to others. It happens in relationship with them.

This session explores how authentic connection can begin to replace the pressure to perform, impress, defend, or prove. It also turns toward the therapist’s side of the equation: how our own self-doubt, pressure, and professional identity can subtly shape clinical presence.

This is where the work becomes especially relational, personal, and alive.

Dr. Diane Poole Heller joins Dr. Siegel for this relationally focused session, bringing her attachment-based lens to the question of how connection—not performance—becomes the ground for healing.

You’ll learn to:

Help clients move from impression management toward authentic connection
Recognize how shame distorts relating, shaping withdrawal, performance, and protective patterns
Notice therapist self-doubt and adequacy concerns as they arise in the room
Strengthen therapeutic presence, steadiness, and interpersonal mindfulness

MONTH 6 · Tuesday, October 20, 2026

Enjoying the Extraordinary Gift of Being Ordinary: Cultivating Meaning and Purpose

The series concludes by turning toward meaning, purpose, and freedom from the constant burden of self-concern.

This final session explores what becomes possible when clients are less organized around self-evaluation and more rooted in presence, values, connection, and ordinary human life.

Rather than ending in symptom management alone, we end by exploring what freedom from chronic self-evaluation can make possible.

In this closing session, Dr. Diane Poole Heller joins Dr. Siegel to help integrate the series and explore how meaning, connection, gratitude, and ordinary human life can become enduring anchors of well-being.

You’ll learn to:

Help clients move from impression management toward authentic connection
Recognize how shame distorts relating, shaping patterns of withdrawal, performance, and protection in connection
Notice therapist self-doubt and adequacy concerns as they arise in the room
Strengthen therapeutic presence, steadiness, and interpersonal mindfulness

Join our global learning community––and learn how to apply new skills, strategies, and exercises to your personal and professional life.

Enrollment is now open until May 11, 2026

Learn directly from leading experts in trauma training!

All for only

$77/month**

(Membership includes access to new topics every 6 months!)

Our first live call is on May 12, 2026!

Can’t attend live? All training is recorded and available in your learning portal.

**This is an annual membership––with new topics introduced every six months to support your learning.

You’re Protected by our 100% Satisfaction Guarantee

We’re confident this program will be a valuable investment in your education and clinical practice.

Try the Therapy Mastermind Circle membership 100% risk-free! 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.

This is an annual membership program with rotating 6-month topics, and you have lifetime access to the learning portal and materials for every completed topic (including videos, transcripts, worksheets, exercises, and bonuses).

If you wish to cancel your subscription at any time after the 30 days, you must provide 30 days’ written notice of cancellation. If you decide to cancel before completing the current 6-month topic, you will have 30 days from your cancellation notice to download the materials for personal use.

Please note that if you cancel your membership subscription and choose to rejoin later, the monthly rates may change.

For those with financial needs, a limited number of partial scholarships are available. Please contact our Customer Support Team for further information.

“When we loosen the grip of self-evaluation, we create space for connection, resilience, and a more stable sense of belonging within ourselves and with others.”

– Dr. Diane Poole Heller

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!

Who Should Join Us?

In Therapy Mastermind Circle, we take on topics that aren’t always taught in other training programs…

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.

Our NEXT topic begins with our first live session on May 12, 2026.

Meet the Experts

Our relentless tendency toward ‘selfing’—creating narratives in our minds, starring me. These narratives are often quite distorted and create a tremendous amount of tension and suffering.

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.

When we begin to understand shame through the lens of attachment, we can meet both collapse and overcompensation with compassion, and help clients move toward connection rather than self-protection.

Diane Poole Heller PhD, is an internationally recognized speaker, author, and teaching expert in the field of adult attachment theory and trauma resolution.

Her signature approach—DARe (Dynamic Attachment Re-patterning experience)—provides therapists and individuals with relevant skills and practical exercises that facilitate healing from attachment and trauma wounds.

Her work with adult attachment has forged a path for adults with childhood attachment injuries to develop Secure Attachment Skills (SAS) that lead to more connected and fulfilling adult relationships. Through various training programs, books, lectures and her own work as a clinical therapist, Dr. Heller has helped a countless number of people in their healing journey towards experiencing greater intimacy, wholeness and more fulfilling relationships.

She believes that when we heal ourselves first, we heal our families, our communities and the world as a whole.

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

Overcoming Self-Doubt and Shame

An Attachment and Trauma-Sensitive Approach

Help clients move beyond the ups and downs of self-esteem and toward a more stable, compassionate sense of well-being, free from cycles of self-judgment, comparison, and shame.

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.

Eligible professionals can earn 8 CE credits by attending the live sessions!

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.

Network with colleagues, ask questions and get support in our course portal.

Learn directly from leading experts in trauma training!

All for only

$77/month**

(Membership includes access to new topics every 6 months!)

Our first live call is on May 12, 2026!

Can’t attend live? All training is recorded and available in your learning portal.

**This is an annual membership––with new topics introduced every six months to support your learning.

You’re Protected by our 100% Satisfaction Guarantee

We’re confident this program will be a valuable investment in your education and clinical practice.

Please note that if you cancel your membership subscription and choose to rejoin later, the monthly rates may change.

For those with financial needs, a limited number of partial scholarships are available. Please contact our Customer Support Team for further information.

Is this training a good fit for you?

In this Therapy Mastermind Circle series, you’ll develop a more grounded and clinically useful way to:

Understand shame and self-doubt through an attachment and biological lens
Recognize how these patterns are shaped by early relational experiences and reinforced over time, allowing you to work with them as adaptive strategies rather than personal flaws.
Work more skillfully with both collapse and overcompensation
Understand how these seemingly opposite responses arise from the same protective system, and learn how to respond in ways that reduce reactivity and support integration.
Help clients relate differently to evaluative thoughts and emotional states
Use mindfulness and somatic awareness to shift how clients experience and respond to self-critical thinking, rather than trying to eliminate or override it.
Support more stable, connection-based well-being
Guide clients toward sources of stability rooted in common humanity, relationship, and meaning, rather than fluctuating self-esteem or external validation.
Recognize therapist self-doubt and adequacy concerns in real time
Develop greater awareness of how your own internal experience can shape the therapeutic relationship, and strengthen your presence in moments of uncertainty or pressure.
Integrate this framework into your existing clinical approach
Apply these principles within your current modality in a way that deepens your work, without reducing the process to surface-level strategies like boosting self-esteem.

If you’re looking for a more nuanced and clinically grounded way to work with shame, self-doubt, and self-evaluative patterns in your clients and in yourself, this series will meet you there.

Continuing Education (CE) Credits

Licensed Mental Health Professionals

Do you need CE credits?

This course has been approved for 8 CE credit hours

Course Level: Beginning to advanced practice professionals

Target Audience: Licensed mental health professionals

Continuing Education Credit has been approved for the following professions:

*ONLY THE LIVE ONLINE SESSIONS ARE APPROVED FOR CE CREDITS.

To be eligible, professionals must attend ALL SIX sessions. Attendance will be taken to verify eligibility.

A Certificate of Completion is available to all participants at the end of the course at no additional charge upon request.

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

Information on Continuing Education Credit for Health Professionals

CE credits for psychologists are provided by the Spiritual Competency Academy (SCA) which is sponsoring this program. The Spiritual Competency Academy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Spiritual Competency Academy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT license renewal for programs offered by sponsors of CE who are approved by the American Psychological Association.
LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFTs, and other professionals from outside of California need to check with their state licensing board as to whether or not they accept credits from programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.
SCA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN Provider CEP16887) for licensed nurses in California. RNs must retain their certificate of attendance for 4 years after the course concludes. Nurses outside of California must confirm acceptance with their licensing boards.
For questions about your certificate or the content, logistics, or other support issues regarding this course, please contact Trauma Solutions Customer Support
For questions about whether APA CE is valid for you, contact your licensing board directly.
For general questions about APA CE, contact SCA at ce@spiritualcompetencyacademy.com.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this training participants will be able to:

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How can we help you?

What is the Therapy Mastermind Circle membership program?

TMC is an annual membership program where we meet monthly to explore relevant topics, share expert learning, and develop practical skills to help you and your clients thrive. New topics are introduced every six months. You have lifetime access to the learning portal and materials for every 6-month topic you complete, including videos, demos, transcripts, worksheets, exercises and bonuses.

If you cancel your subscription to Therapy Mastermind Circle before completing the current 6-month topic, you will have 30 days—from the time you give notice of your cancellation—to download the materials for your personal use. The current membership subscription rate is $77/month, which will be applied as long as you continue your membership. If you cancel at any time and rejoin the program at a later date or topic—monthly rates may be subject to change.

Do I need to be a therapist to be in the Therapy Mastermind Circle membership?

No you do not. While most of the people who join the Therapy Mastermind Circle range from novice to experienced practitioners, we do sometimes have non-therapists join us, as we explore a variety of in-depth topics on a monthly basis.

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.

This topic is highly relevant for psychologists, therapists, and other mental health and behavioral professional such as life coaches, bodywork practitioners, or counselors who work with clients and patients in a professional or clinical setting. You’ll gain additional tools to address the complexities of chronic shame, unresolved trauma, and self-esteem struggles, and a safe space to share and practice new skills.

When are the live classes?

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

Class 1 — Tuesday, May 12, 2026 · The Self-Evaluation Trap: Evolution, Attachment, and the Roots of Self-Doubt
Class 2 — Tuesday, June 16, 2026 · Stepping Off the Self-Esteem Roller Coaster: Mindfulness of Thoughts and Emotions in the Body
Class 3 — Tuesday, July 14, 2026 · Trauma, Attachment, and the Development of Self Narratives
Class 4 — Tuesday, August 11, 2026 · Self-Compassion: Discovering Common Humanity as an Antidote to Shame
Class 5 — Tuesday, September 1, 2026 · Make a Connection, Not an Impression: Healing in Relationship
Class 6 — Tuesday, October 20, 2026 · Enjoying the Extraordinary Gift of Being Ordinary: Cultivating Meaning and Purpose

Each class includes live teaching, experiential learning, and Q&A.

Are the class sessions live or pre-recorded?

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 demos.

What if I can’t make it to the live calls?

We would love to have you join each session live, but if you are unable to do so, that’s ok—all sessions and training calls (including the Q&A and demos) are recorded and stored in your professional reference library, so you can still receive the information and coaching you need.

Additionally, the program materials (including audio recording, video recordings and transcript from each session) are yours to download and keep in your professional reference library. In the interest of privacy, demo videos may never be downloaded.

Plus, you can always submit a question via Kajabi (the learning portal) outside of the live sessions.
It’s a great place to ask questions, share insights and get support from Dr. Siegel and Dr. Heller, or your colleagues at any time.

What are the Put-It-Into-Practice exercises?

These are guided integration exercises designed to help you apply each month’s material in your clinical work. For this series, participants will also receive selected downloadable handouts from Dr. Ron Siegel’s book, The Extraordinary Gift of Being Ordinary, which can support reflection, skill-building, and deeper engagement with themes like self-evaluation, shame, self-compassion, and therapeutic presence.

How many CE credits can I earn for this course?

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—October 19, 2026. 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 (by Saturday, December 19, 2026). 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.

Are there any discounts or scholarships available for this course?

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 us for more information.

I’m having trouble completing the purchase. How can I get support?

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

What is the refund policy for this 6-month membership topic?

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.

Learn directly from leading experts in trauma training!

All for only

$77/month**

(Membership includes access to new topics every 6 months!)

Our first live call is on May 12, 2026!

Can’t attend live? All training is recorded and available in your learning portal.

**This is an annual membership––with new topics introduced every six months to support your learning.