About this webinar
Date: June 15, 2026
Time: 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. ET
Facilitator: Natalie Zlodre Choy, MSW, RSW.
CE hours: 6
This training is suitable for:
- Mental Health Professionals: psychotherapists, counsellors, psychologists, social workers, nurses and psychiatrists.
Level of training: Introductory
Client age category: For professionals who work with clients over the age of 18.
Description: For decades, the therapeutic work of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was to process fear, helplessness and horror. The DSM has expanded the definition of PTSD to include guilt and shame. Evidence-based research indicates that unprocessed/unresolved guilt and shame are risk factors for developing and maintaining PTSD symptoms as well as compromising the healing process for clients with complex PTSD and developmental trauma. In this webinar, we will define guilt and shame and outline their similarities and differences. We will review the different subtypes of both emotions. We will review how we organize our conversations with clients and how we help clients face the unspoken needs and dilemmas that drive the guilt and shame experience.
Learning objectives:
- 7 types of guilt.
- How to process conversations when:
- The client feels guilty but is not guilty.
- The client has a distorted view of their role in a negative experience.
- When the client is guilty.
- 7 types of shame.
- How to process passing through shame and a shame-prone identity.
- How to pinpoint the source of a shame-prone identity.
- The connection between dissociation and shame.
- How to change shame-prone patterns.
Continuing Education (CE) Information: SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health Learning Institute is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) to offer continuing education (CE) hours. Full-day programs equal six CE hours; half-day programs equal three CE hours; for less than half-day programs, one hour of programming equals one CE hour. SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health Learning Institute maintains responsibility for the programs.
Other licensing boards and professional organizations will grant continuing education credits for attendance at their own discretion; participants will need to submit the course outline and Certificate of Participation for their consideration.
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Accessibility
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