Student Bios:

Ariel Shearman:

I'm an international pet sitter, sourdough bread baker, recovering bulimic, Japanese-to-English translator, and most of all...a human with a deep capacity to listen and witness.I have taken several courses on connecting people with their inner desire/intelligence, and David's Unshaming is by far the most powerful on a deep level. As David says, I will lead by following you. In a container that is open to anything and everything about you, we will do what you're called to share...whether that be dancing, singing, gesturing, talking, whining, collapsing. All of these have messages that are crying to be witnessed and held and allowed to blossom.

I look forward to holding a container for your bud to start blossoming!

Email: kerokaeru@hotmail.com

Eli Arlen:

I’m a queer, large-bodied woman; a homestead farmer, traveler, and certified Somatic Healer. I’ve been living with the slog of chronic illness for the past 25+ years. A year ago, when I began my Unshaming journey, I felt things really shift for the first time, discovering the medicine behind my symptoms. With each unfolding that I've witnessed, I’ve been so moved to see what felt like a wrongness be revealed as beautiful, potent intelligence. I love helping others befriend their marginalized, shamed aspects, and to recognize the wisdom within. If you identify as female, gender fluid or queer and this resonates with you, please reach out!

Email: openingtoself@gmail.com

Kitt Tvile:

I work with late diagnosed ADHD’ers. My passion is around ADHD, ageism and women. I love what David's work has done for me and my clients and would love to offer my services for people who need it. I’m in Copenhagen, Denmark - timezone CET.

Email: kitttvile@gmail.com

Melissa Clark:

(She/her/they/them)

Activist and teacher passionate to help people become their most authentic truest selves. Being a survivor of severe trauma and a religious cult I am passionate to help others become what they are destined for no matter their background. Happy to witness clients and help them learn how to know and trust their own deepest parts.

Email: melissaclark4education@gmail.com

Erin Sprinkle:

(she/her)

I help women and mamas with: relationship pain and conflict | body image, comfort eating, dieting | depression, anxiety, trauma, CPTSD | religious trauma | confidence in neuro- diversity

I know what it’s like to carry body shame (acne/scars and controlled eating), overwhelming feelings and numbness (depression/anxiety as a teen and postpartum). I’ve also journeyed through the stress and pain of relationship conflict and religious de-construction. I have embraced my neuro-sparkly brain. Through it all, I have come to deeply know Love. 

The space I hold is wide open. Some process slowly or need tears witnessed. Others want to play or sing or explore rage. You can’t get it wrong. The point is freedom to be you. All the experiences and parts of you (especially the labeled “unworthy” parts) are welcome in this space. 

Email: erinsprinklecoaching@gmail.com

Instagram: @erinksprinkle

Website: erinsprinkle.com

Jana Steingass:

I’m most curious and moved in life by people. I’m curious about why humans have certain common behaviors, and conversely, what makes us all uniquely ourselves. I am really passionate about helping hold space for people to discover the most authentic and alive energies that want to express themselves—what brings them into their highest excitement.

I’m a non binary veteran of the Royal Canadian Navy, who has lived through some intense life challenges like a career transition, divorce and long battle with chronic lyme disease and PTSD.

Email: jana.steingass@gmail.com

Lee McClenon:

As a long-time doula, I would love to hear from new and expecting parents because Unshaming is completely changing how I see pregnancy aches, birth traumas, postpartum blues, and the way we treat babies and toddlers. I also have a history in activism and am practicing working with grief, anger, and dread about social topics, including climate change and politics. Finally, Unshaming changed the way I interact with the medical system as a cancer survivor and I would love to help you see your acute or chronic illness through new eyes. Lee (she/her) is a white, queer woman in her 30s, living on the east coast of the US.

Email: lee@leemcc.com

Saddie Maker:

I am a sound healing, roadschooling, AuDHD mother of five with a background in education and history. I am passionate about unshaming neurodiversity, alchemizing the mother journey, humanizing children in education, and transmuting intergenerational trauma. I delight in supporting oddlings, adventurers, deep thinkers, and quiet souls in getting safely back into their body and uncovering their repressed healing magic, inner wisdom, and authentic voice.

Email: maker.rising@gmail.com

Daniel Ramon:

(He/ Him)

I love to accompany people through their pain and processes, and witness the beauty of how that process unfolds. How people learn to hold and embrace their pain and wounds always touches me very deeply. I don't have a specific preference about what group of people I would like to work with. 

Email: daniel_ramond@hotmail.com

Emily Vino:

(She / Her)

Cancer Sun, Virgo Moon, Pisces Rising

My passion lies in UnShaming the witches, the mystics, the oracles, the intuitives, the artists, the lovers, the priestesses, the hedonists, the romantics, the warriors & the rebels.

Email: emilyavino@gmail.com

Megan Bloom:

I have a passion for process! Process is empowerment and I work with people to entrain to the trust, safety, security, freedom, and innovation that resides within them. My methods are informed by energetic, somatic, psychotherapeutic, shamanic, and process-oriented work and are trauma and identity sensitive. I am early middle-age, queer, cisgender, female, Jewish identifying. And I work with people who desire to feel safe, empowered, and free.

Email: meb2z@virginia.edu

Amanda Connell:

I'm Amanda Connell, a Trauma-Informed Certified Life Coach, Tapping Practitioner, and Process-Oriented Facilitator (In-Training). I specialize in helping women break free from the invisible chains of shame and reclaim their self-worth, fostering profound personal growth and empowerment. My mission is to support women in embracing their authentic selves and building lives filled with joy, resilience, and deep self-love.

Email: amanda@amandaconnell.com

Tatiana St-Louis:

I’m Tatiana, and I live in Montreal. I am a feminist coach and I work with people socialized as women to navigate the tribulations of entrepreneurship. Online visibility, marketing, money stuff, offer clarity and development… I use the tools of the unconscious to help shadows come forward in a trauma-informed and somatic way.

Email: tatiana@aimetamarque.com

Kori Horgreaves:

I am a lifelong plant lover, artist, and most recently, mother to a five year old sparkling sun. Since my first class with David in 2021, his teachings and the alchemy of unshaming have been transforming my personal path of healing, self inquiry, and parenting in ways I had deeply longed for but hadn’t known were possible. I am now training in the art of facilitating this work, and grateful for the opportunity to learn to support other exquisitely sensitive, deeply feeling humans in experiencing the profound beauty and power of being witnessed within an unshaming framework.

Email: Kori.Hargreaves@gmail.com

Kavita Natarajan:

I am Kavita. I  think, drift, dither, write, cook, wander, vegetate, love having deep conversations and a good laugh. I am passionate about digging deeper, finding clues, sifting through details and learning from that which is elusive and unsolvable within us and in our lives. The  focus of my work has been around chronic symptoms such as procrastination, creative blocks,  difficulty starting or completing tasks as well as for those attempting to connect with their life’s direction, needs, desires and sense of autonomy.

Email: kavitanatarajan@gmail.com

Maria Talero, PhD:

I am a bicultural, bilingual native of Colombia who believes that we actually heal by shape-shifting, and that this only happens when we are soul-meltingly seen, heard and believed. I listen with a total, unwavering commitment to the intelligence, gifts and powers inside your troubles. I am warm, patient and gentle & I have a huge capacity to notice and help you reconnect with the tiniest details of your own experience. UnShaming for me is the culmination of 23 years of study and practice, originally as an academic philosopher of soma/embodiment theory, then as a skilled facilitator specializing in psychological trust and safety in groups. We can work together in English or in Spanish, whatever you’re most comfortable with. 

Email: maria@climatecourage.cc

Joy Ding:

Hi friend, my name is Joy and I’m a queer ADHD Asian-American coach and facilitator for people working on big ideas and dreams who want to deepen their creative work, know themselves, and grow bigger and more visible in a way that sustains and nourishes. I love to work with mid-level artists, coaches, writers, entrepreneurs, and change makers, often people who are a combination of all of these! I bring rapt attention, curiosity, playfulness and wonder to our sessions. Often my clients are crying and laughing and then crying and laughing with the truthfulness of what we are discovering together. Looking forward to meeting you.

Email: joy.j.ding@gmail.com

Ember Tavernier

Hello! I’m Ember. I am a curious intuitive, empath, artist, and mother of four. I love working with people to help them uncover the beauty, power and truth in themselves through this unshaming process. I am in the Central Standard Time zone. If you’d like to get in touch with me you can email me at Ember.Tavernier@gmail.com I look forward to meeting you!

Christina Amri

Christina is an artist, a mother and grandmother who has run a successful design and fabrication business for over 40 years.  During that time, she also taught art, and interned with Marion Rosen of the Rosen Institute, in Body-centered therapy, and has followed the teachings of the Buddhist Monk and activist Thich Nhat Hahn, and teacher/writer Stephen Levine. She loves the tender human heart, the intricacies of being a human and spiritual being in this complex world, and the solace of metaphor and poetry in our lives. Learning with David Bedrick has been one of the most moving, profound, healing and growthful experiences of my life. I would love to witness and facilitate people in this deep and beautiful work of Unshaming. 

Email: christina@amristudio.com