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Welcome
to my website.
This website, like life, is a work in progress, and parts are still under
construction.
 I
have offices in San Francisco and Berkeley, California:
1197 Valencia, Suite 5
San Francisco, CA 94110
830 Bancroft Way, Suite 102
Berkeley, CA 94710
All appointments are made by phone:
415-820-3974
Email: SheilaRubin@SheilaRubin.com
I am a Marriage & Family Therapist and a Registered Drama Therapist,
providing a variety of services including psychotherapy, marriage and
family therapy, drama therapy, consultation, and groups. I offer short-term
solution-focused therapy as well as long-term in-depth work. Therapy is
a combination of body-mind somatic work as well as expressive arts, drama
therapy, and cognitive-behavioral work, among others. I also offer EFT, Emotionally Focused Therapy of Sue Johnson when working with distressed couples. I see clients once
a week; please call 415-820-3974 if you are interested in setting up an
appointment.
Healing Shame Workshops for Therapists
Sheila is an expert in healing shame, especially overt, all pervasive shame, from her many years of working with women with eating disorders and couples with a history of trauma. She co-leads Healing Shame Workshops for therapists with Bret Lyon, Ph.D., in Berkeley, CA, nationally and internationally. For a calendar of Healing Shame workshops and locations, click here.
Drama Therapy Groups currently being
offered:
Life Stories (offered as a 10-week workshop or 1-day workshop)
Book Reading
In January 2012, Sheila Rubin read from her chapter in the new book, Ritual Theatre, edited by Claire Schrader and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. For info on this Drama Therapy event, click here.
Therapy
groups for Disordered Eating currently being offered:
Women,
Food & Feelings
Alternative track training in Drama Therapy in Clinical Practice, workshops to be scheduled. For more information, call 415-820-3974.
For more about Sheila Rubin, click here.
Current Drama Therapy Schedule:
Life Stories (10-week Self-Revelatory Performance Workshop)
Summer group begins June 18, 2012. Monday evenings: 6:00 - 8:00 pm in Berkeley, CA. Public performance on last night of class (August 20).
Free Life Stories Performances
Open to all. Monday, May 21, 2012. 7 pm. 830 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA.
Life Stories (1-day Self-Revelatory Performance Workshops)
Sunday, January 22, 2012. 2:00 - 6:00 pm in Berkeley, CA.
Life Stories:
A 10-Week Self-Revelatory Performance Workshop
Exploring Personal Narrative Through Improvisation
Spring is a wonderful time to take a journey which supports creative growth. It is a time to go deep inside to our personal life stories, our familiar and collective dreams and to explore what is needing to be released and what is needing support to come out into the light as we move forward.
I invite you to consider taking this deep, transformative and heart- centered workshop. Everyone participates at their own level. It is both for shy people who want to step beyond embarrassment or shame and into the radiance of their self expression in front of a small supportive group as well as for those who love to tell their stories from a heart place and want to work on their next level of authentic embodied presence.
This is an invitation to take a journey which supports your creative process
as it unfolds through embodied storytelling. Experience the power of telling
your personal story with presence and authenticity, while being witnessed
by a supportive group.
When we explore the threads which weave between our daily experiences
and universal themes, a deeper story emerges. And it is this deeper story
which feeds us at a soul level.
In order to connect with, embody, and express this deeper story, this
Self-Revelatory Performance Workshop will use:
• theatrical improvisation
• dreams
• guided visualization
• movement
• somatic exercizes
• writing
• group interaction
Those who choose to, can create a 10-20 minute perfomance for an invited
audience for the last night of class. Some class members will be working
on material for a longer piece. This class is for all skill levels.
Summer Dates:
Spring group runs 10 weeks beginning June 18, 2012.
Meets each Monday evening from 6:00 - 8:00 pm. Class
performance on the last night of class (May 21). Download a flyer for this workshop (PDF 290 KB).
Location: Berkeley (just off I-80)
Cost: $450 for each 10-week series. $50 off with full payment 7 days in advance of the first class. $50 off for students or seniors over 65.
Alternative Track Training: This workshop can count as alternative track training for those who are in alternative track drama therapy training process, since Sheila is BCT- Board Certified Trainer.
To Register: Send $40 deposit to: Sheila Rubin, 830 Bancroft Way, Suite 102, Berkeley, CA 94710 or call 415-820-3974.
Free Life Stories Performances
LIfe Stories 10-Week Workshop Performance
Age - Ariel Bess
Waking Up - Carla Torres
Trust Harmony - Harmony Gates
Stand-Up Tragedy - Anonymous
Between The Threads - Sheila Rubin
These solo performances are filled with heart, passion, and the depth of personal story. Each member of the group has been on a 10 week improvisational-creative-personal journey and is now taking the next step of being witnessed by an invited audience. A very powerful experience. Bring your heart. Performance is free.
A great way to witness this this powerful work in case you might be interested in attending a future workshop or sending a client.
Solo performances of 10- 20 minutes each followed by reception for the performers and feedback from the audience.
Date: Monday, May 21, 2012.
Time: 7:00 pm
Cost: Free
Location: Sheila's Berkeley Studio at Rudramandir, 830 Bancroft Way, Suite 102, Berkeley, CA. Call 415 820-3974 for directions.
To view the invitations to past performances, go to:
Summer 2009
Winter 2009
Summer 2010
Spring 2011
Summer 2011
Life Stories: One-Day Embodied Storytelling Workshops
How you tell your life story can change your life.
Experience the support and power of this process.
This is an invitation to take a journey which supports your creative process as it unfolds through the powerful process of embodied storytelling and drama therapy. Each person will be working on solo stories that emerge in the group during a series of structured improvisation, writing, and movement exercises. Themes may emerge about the hero or heroine’s journey, the wounded healer, dreams, childhood memories, family of origin stories.
When we explore the threads which weave between daily experience, myth, archetypes, and family of origin stories, a deeper story can emerge. This deeply personal story often has universal themes, providing clearer sense of what your life has been about and who you are. Many report a sense of ease and connection with their deeper self, the group, their family, and the whole community after being in one of these workshops.
No prior experience necessary. Shy people welcome. Wear comfortable clothes and bring a journal or notebook.
January 2012: Ritual to Replenish, Refocus and Ground to Prepare for an Amazing 2012!
As things get more and more intense in the world, it’s important for healers and teachers to take the time to replenish and focus our energy. On this day, we’ll be sharing processes that are very powerful.
Life Stories Collage Process: This process can set on paper your intentions for personal, community or planetary transformation in the new year. I will supply art paper and collage materials. You’re welcome to bring images, if you’d like.
Ritual: We will also work with a powerful ritual, bringing into focus our intentions through body, mind and heart with our vision to move us powerfully into the new year.
Life Stories Embodied Story Process: We will use this process to express what we are stepping into.
Date: Sunday, January 22, 2012.
Location: 830 Bancroft Way, Suite 102, Berkeley (just off I-80)
Cost: $50. (CEUs available for an additional $10). To register, call 415-820-3974 and leave your name and phone number.
Hours from this workshop can be counted toward Alternative Track Drama Therapy Training.
Download a flyer for this workshop (PDF 393 KB).
Women, Food &
Feelings:
Healing Disordered Eating
Therapy Groups for Women who have Eating Disorders
This supportive therapy group is a safe place for women to explore, understand,
and begin to change unhealthy eating patterns, body image, self-esteem
and boundary issues. Through mindfulness, expressive therapy, drama therapy,
and DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy), we will begin a process of self-discovery
and transformation.
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Recovery from food issues goes beyond changing eating habits. It can be
a pathway to discovering your deeper self.
This therapy group will help you:
• Cultivate Mindful Eating
• Access Your Inner "Wise
Woman"
• Understand the Connection Between
Food and Feelings
• Develop Healthy Coping Skills
• Regulate Difficult Emotions
• Feel Alive in Your Body
Location: San Francisco (Mission
District).
Days/Times: Ongoing group offered on Wednesdays, 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Cost: $50 per group meeting.
Intake interview/assessment required before joining group ($120 fee for intake interview). Groups are ongoing
with initial three-month commitment.
Integrating Mind, Heart and Body...
How Do People Change and Grow?
Current brain research shows that in order to really learn something new or heal past wounds it is helpful for the client to participate in an experience that engages the right brain, limbic system and brain stem, as well as the left brain. Drama Therapy and Expressive Arts Therapy provide creative processes – imagery, symbolic play – that involve the right brain. Somatic therapy helps to integrate the limbic system – which regulates emotions and the brain stem – which influences breathing and body processes. Combining these expressive and somatic processes with traditional therapy as well as CBT/DBT, can get the whole brain involved in the healing process.
Drama Therapy and Expressive Arts Therapy
This work is active and experiential, using drawing, storytelling, improvisation, movement, or writing in a therapeutic context. Role playing allows a client to act out issues and problems, gain perspective on real life roles or patterns and experiment with alternatives. Symbols and dreams can offer access to the unconscious. Structured exercises provide containment for nonverbal expression of feelings.
Children and Drama Therapy
Since play is the language of children, I am able to gain rapport and help a child express, in their own language, what is bothering them. Drama therapy with children is a directive form of play therapy that can use: drawing, puppets, games, dramatic and developmental play to help a child cope with shy-ness, loss, divorce, anger, ADHD and more.
Somatic Therapy
Somatic therapy is body based, working with a sense of mindfulness or deepened attention to the body, where much information is held, including sensation, emotions, memory.
Sheila Rubin, MA, LMFT, RDT/BCT, is a drama therapist and psychotherapist
with a private practice in San Francisco and Berkeley. She is well known
for directing self-revelatory performances. She is an adjunct faculty
member and an alumnus of C.I.I.S., the California Institute of Integral
Studies, Psychology and Drama Therapy Department. Sheila is also an adjunct faculty member of J.F.K. University and a past President
of San Francisco CAMFT. She was also a Past President of the Northern California Chapter of NADT.
For further information, to register for a workshop,
to schedule a therapy session, or to enroll in professional training,
please call 415-820-3974.
Articles:
Sheila has written chapters for three books on eating disorders, drama therapy, and ritual theater. She has written numerous professional articles about working combining EFT, Emotionally Focused Therapy of Sue Johnson with drama therapy to work with families, couples, and kids. She is a CAMFT certified supervisor.
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