Through her private therapy sessions, therapist training programs, Embodied Life Story workshops and Healing Shame workshops Sheila Rubin, MA, LMFT, RDT/BCT helps people of all walks of life heal their shame and self doubt, discover their creativity and access their true voice.

Sheila is a Marriage and Family Therapist, Registered Drama Therapist and Board Certified Trainer who works with adults, couples, children and teens. Sheila is the Co-Director of the Center for Healing Shame in Berkeley, CA, a continuing education provider that offers Healing Shame workshops and a full certification and training program to therapists and helping professionals. She co-created the Healing Shame – Lyon/Rubin method and has delivered talks, presentations and workshops across the country and around the world, at conferences from Canada to Romania. Sheila is a graduate of the CIIS Counseling and Drama Therapy program and is adjunct faculty in JFK University’s Somatic Psychology program. Sheila has trained in AEDP, EFT, Hakomi and Drama Therapy and has developed therapy techniques integrating somatic, expressive, and attachment modalities to work with the all-pervasive shame and trauma that underlie toxic family dynamics, eating disorders, and addictions.

Sheila’s expertise, teaching, and writing contributions have been featured in numerous publications, including six books. Her writings on shame include the chapter “Women, Food and Feelings: Drama Therapy with Women Who Have Eating Disorders” in the book The Creative Therapies and Eating Disorders and the chapter “Almost Magic: Working with the Shame that Underlies Depression: Using Drama Therapy in the Imaginal Realm” in the book The Use of Creative Therapies in Treating Depression (both books edited by Stephanie Brooke).
Sheila has been a therapist for over 25 years and offers therapy through her private practice in Berkeley and online through Zoom. She also offers consultation to therapists in person and over Skype.

Practice Description – Marriage and Family Therapist
Specialties – Anxiety, children, couples, eating disorders, addictions, parenting, shame
Years in practice – 25+ years
Modality -Drama Therapy, Expressive Arts, Hakomi, AEDP, EFT
Accept Insurance – No