MONTHLY
For Therapists, Coaches & Healers
Are You Ready to Deepen Your Practice?
When a Client Leaves You Scratching Your Head...
Perhaps you’re finding yourself entangled with a client, feeling hurt, frustrated, or confused.
It happens to the best of us. You might be struggling with a case where:
A client seems resistant or the progress you made has trailed off.
You’re feeling entangled in the relationship, maybe even hurt or upset by the person.
You're confused and genuinely not sure how to help or what direction to take.
You’re wrestling with an ethical concern.
Your client doesn’t leave room for you—they talk, they move on, and you don’t know how to get in and be helpful.
Your clients keep coming to you with the same difficulties or stories over and over.
Or perhaps you simply want to keep growing as a therapist, a coach, a healer, moving toward a deeper level of mastery.
I’ve held supervision sessions for therapists and coaches for many years, specifically for students who have studied my work.
But so many of you have asked me: "Do you do supervision?"
The answer, up until now, has been, “Not with people who are not students.”
But the need is clearly strong. People want to learn. People want to present their cases and get help in order to deepen their skills, get smarter, be more effective, and develop a level of mastery.
That’s why I’m creating a once-a-month program where you can bring your cases. This is a space for serious practitioners—for therapists, coaches, and healers—ready to elevate their work.
What does
look like?
This is a deeply experiential and active supervision space.
1. You Will Bring a Case
You'll come ready to present a brief overview of a current client: their social identity, the problem they are looking for help with, and what your work with them has looked like so far. We'll think together.
Caveat: We might not get to every case. Students always find that when I work with a particular student, facilitator, therapist or coach, they get a lot out of the help and what I model with them as well.
2. We'll Get Into the Work
I will often ask you to role-play the person—sometimes even in an exaggerated form—because that highlights the difficulties and your own growing edges as a practitioner.
3. I Will Model New Approaches
Then, I will demonstrate or model to you what effective interventions might look like. I’ll show you how you can approach that client in new, deeper, or more effective ways.
I will always tailor these suggestions and modeling to who you are, where your skills are, what your style is, and what I’ve learned about your client so that there's a good fit.
4. Group Learning and Discussion
There will always be time for all participants to ask questions and to think about the case together. You’ll find that when I work with one person, everyone gets a lot out of the help. We rarely get a chance to sit around the table together as facilitators, to talk about our cases, and think about what’s working and what’s not.
The Feedback You'll Get:
This is a great opportunity to learn together and receive powerful, uplifting feedback that is never critical but always constructive and insightful.
The feedback you receive will be structured to serve your growth in four key areas:
1. Educational Insights: Gaining a deeper understanding of the client's process and problem, including what that may have to do with their social issues.
2. Modeling of Techniques: I'll show you specific techniques and skills that you can immediately learn and use in your practice.
3. General Discussion: A deeper dive into the group context about the case and the interventions.
4. Personal & Professional Edge: We'll illuminate your own edges and your capacity to grow deeper into your therapeutic power. When a practitioner has difficulty with a client, it's always about the client's difficulty and the therapist's personal development, awareness, and skill. I will help you see and grow those edges, empowering you to be more productive and effective.
“Having David’s guidance is invaluable. He has a gift for helping you see the path forward with new clarity, and a kindness and generosity of spirit that invites you deeper into your own gifts as a practitioner. I am so grateful to call David a mentor and colleague.”
— Monica Carota, Intuitive Performance Coach
Saying yes to supervision with David was a no-brainer. After his program, my whole inner landscape shifted, and supervision helped me maintain the deep undoing I’ve experienced. I can practice with clients in a way that feels safe, aligned, and cutting-edge, while reinforcing learning that challenges me to operate on a different frequency. Working with David brings expansive perspective, insight, and clarity on client dynamics that has transformed both my practice and my life. The clarity and perspective I gain from David’s supervision is unmatched.
—Tracey Burns, ICF-MCC, Master Certified Coach
“Every time I go to David’s supervision sessions, I leave feeling nurtured and encouraged, both professionally and personally. David has a fine attention to detail when discussing different aspects of the unshaming process, especially when it comes to ethical practices and consent. He always shows tenderness and care for the client’s issue and also for me, as the facilitator. If you have a chance to join David’s supervision course, I highly recommend it!”
— Erin Sprinkle, Unshaming Facilitator and Somatic Coach
MEMBERSHIP DETAILS
This Supervision Group is a monthly membership program.
Of course, you are free to begin and discover whether this is right for you and decide not to continue at any time.
But the vision of this offering is to build a longer-term community of therapists, coaches and healers interested in integrating more unshaming skills to their practices who will further the ripple effect of this paradigm and practice, both with themselves and others.
It is not designed for people who want a single session on a drop-in basis.
CLASS DETAILS
We meet one Tuesday a month at 12pm Pacific
Classes are two hours long, from 12pm-2pm Pacific and we meet one Tuesday each month. Each class is recorded and you will get access to the class library for as long as you are a member.
Cost: $110/month
(automatically renews monthly unless you cancel)
With your membership you will get bonus access to a library of 29 previously recorded Unshamed Monthly Medicine classes that covers a wide range of topics to expand your learning, including: Unshaming Depression, Hunger, Eating & Eating Disorders, Pathologization, Shame and Shadow, Addictive Tendencies and More.
MEET YOUR FACILITATOR:
David Bedrick is the author of The Unshaming Way, about which Gabor Mate wrote, ”In this astute work, David Bedrick provides a deep investigation of shame, the most debilitating of our mind states, and offers a workable, practice-based, and accessible path to divesting ourselves from it.”
David is a teacher, counselor, and attorney. He was on the faculty for the University of Phoenix for 8 years as well as the Process Work Institute in the U.S. and Poland. He is the founder of the Santa Fe Institute for Shame-based Studies where he educates therapists, coaches and healers. His embodied way of teaching goes beyond informational, students are regularly brought to tears and face to face with their beauty, power, life path and soul.
David’s passion for studying shame arose from his childhood, growing up with a father who used fists and belts to express his rage and a mother who coped by denying and gaslighting his experience. Forty years of research, teaching, and working with individuals awakened his heart and mind to how the dominant healing paradigm pathologizes people—sees people's suffering and symptoms as something to “fix" instead of messages that deepen our relationships with ourselves and the world around us. David’s unshaming way treats difficulties as invitations to insight, soul, and the divine unfolding of our lives.
David also writes for Psychology Today and is the author of three additional books: Talking Back to Dr. Phil: Alternatives to Mainstream Psychology and Revisioning Activism: Bringing Depth, Dialogue, and Diversity to Individual and Social Change, You Can’t Judge a Body by Its Cover: 17 Women’s Stories of Hunger, Body Shame and Redemption. His 5th book will also be published by North Atlantic Books and available early in 2026.