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The Marin County Chapter of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists publishes profiles of our members, who are licensed and pre-licensed therapists providing therapy to children, teens, adults, couples, and families in Marin and other Bay Area counties. All information on this page is the responsibility of the listed therapist.

Sheila Rubin

Berkeley

(415) 820-3974

 

Member profile details

First name
Sheila
Last name
Rubin
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Office Phone
(415) 820-3974
Additional Website/LinkedIn
healingshame.com
 

License & Education

Clinical License Type
  • Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
License number
MFC 36484
Degree(s)
  • M.A.
 

Office Locations

County(s) office located
  • East Bay
Office Location(s)
  • Berkeley
Office Address
2930 Domingo Ave. #107
Office City
Berkeley
Office State
CA
Office Zip
94705
 

Description

Areas of Interest
  • Child Therapy
  • Drama Therapy
  • Eating Disorders
  • Family Therapy
  • Parenting
Orientation
  • Attachment
  • Body-Oriented Psychotherapy
  • Expressive
Short Description
Sheila Rubin, MA, LMFT, RDT/BCT has a private practice in Berkeley and online. Sheila utilizes a combination of techniques to support clients' growth, including: cognitive behavioral, somatic, expressive arts therapy and drama therapy.
Description of Practice
Sheila Rubin, MA, LMFT, RDT/BCT is a Marriage and Family Therapist with a private practice in Berkeley and online. She works with adults, couples, families and children. She has developed therapy techniques integrating somatic and expressive processes to work with the all-pervasive shame and trauma that underlie eating disorders, addictions and toxic family dynamics.

Sheila is a Registered Drama Therapist and Board Certified Trainer through NADTA. She has studied AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy) with Diana Fosha and EFT (Emotionally-Focused Therapy) with Sue Johnson. Sheila is a graduate of the CIIS Counseling and Drama Therapy program and past adjunct faculty for the CIIS Drama Therapy Program and JFK University’s Somatic Psychology Department.

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. Her expertise, teaching and writing contributions have been featured in numerous publications, including seven books.

Sheila is also the creator of Embodied Life Story Workshops, a theater for shy people and form of Drama Therapy she established 20 years ago that weaves writing, Jungian dreamwork, imagination, and improvisation into embodied storytelling. She has directed over 25 self-revelatory performances for CIIS drama therapy students for their capstone projects as well as hundreds of Life Stories performances in her Embodied Life Story classes and at conferences.

Sheila offers therapy through her private practice in Berkeley and online, and she also offers consultation to therapists over Skype and Zoom.
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Finances

Credit Cards Accepted
No
Sliding Scale/Low Fee
  • For a limited number of clients I charge on a sliding scale