Ken Benau
Ken Benau
Ken Benau, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist • Psychotherapy of Shame and Relational Trauma
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Ph.D., licensed clinical psychologist since 1990. He has a private practice in Kensington, California (San Francisco Bay Area, USA).
He provides individual therapy to adults, couples, and families, professional consultations, and training.
Experience and Specialization
Pro-Being Pride Concept
Dr. Benau introduced the concept of pro-being pride — the most powerful antidote to traumatic states of shame.
Pro-being pride is the experience of taking pleasure in one’s unique way of being and relating to oneself, others, and the world.
Scientific and Educational Activity
He has presented his ideas on shame, pride, and dissociation and their therapeutic application at international conferences, webinars, and podcasts.
Author of peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed articles on the topic of psychotherapy for people who have experienced relational trauma.
General Information
Ph.D., he has been a licensed clinical psychologist since 1990 and has a private practice in Kensington, California, located in the San Francisco Bay Area, USA. He provides individual therapy to adults, couples, and families, professional consultations, and training.
Dr. Benau has experience working with children and adults with various learning and developmental differences, including those living with LD, ADHD, and autism spectrum disorders.
He has a particular interest and expertise in the psychotherapy of shame and pride with people who have experienced relational trauma (RT), as well as in psychotherapy that takes feelings of shame and pride into account.
Dr. Benau has presented his ideas on shame, pride, and dissociation and their therapeutic application in psychotherapy with people who have experienced RT at various international conferences, webinars, and podcasts.
He has also written several peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed articles on the same topic and presented the concept and phenomenon of pro-being pride, the most powerful antidote to traumatic states of shame.
Pro-being pride is the experience of taking pleasure in one’s unique way of being and relating to oneself, others, and the world.
Dr. Benau’s book “Shame, Pride, and Relational Trauma: Concepts and Psychotherapy” was published by Routledge in March 2022.
Publications
Shame, Pride, and Relational Trauma: Concepts and PsychotherapyRoutledge, 2022
A guide that helps recognize the many manifestations of shame and pride underlying psychotherapy for people who have experienced relational trauma. The book teaches how to distinguish shame and pride as emotional processes and as traumatic states of mind/body.
Dr. Ken Benau About the Course
“The Absence of Presence, the Presence of Absence”
