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Choosing a therapist carefully is extremely important, so I've addressed issues you may want to consider. If you seek enduring personal transformation in addition to temporary symptom relief, I believe psychoanalytic therapy is the most potent and helpful therapeutic change agent available to you. Call 714/662-7975 for an initial consultation.
Credentials: Dr. Mauri-Lynne Heller is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Psychoanalyst in private practice in Newport Beach, California. Call 714/662-7975. Evening appointments available. CV available by request. Read her columns at www.insideoutjournal.com
Specialties: In addition to her general practice Dr. Heller specializes in creativity; adolescent and young adult concerns; depression and anxiety; resolution of childhood trauma; phase of life and human development issues and chronic illness/pain, treating adolescents, young adults and adults; individuals and couples. Dr. Heller also specializes in training therapists who seek to deepen the quality of their work.
Education: A graduate of the University of California, Irvine, Pepperdine University and Newport Psychoanalytic Institute, Dr. Heller is a member of the Newport Center for Psychoanalytic Studies, where she is also a faculty instructor and an active member of the Writing and Research Task Force and Speaker's Bureau.
Writing and publications: A regular contributor to the online Health and Fitness and Blog Pages of the Orange County Register, her column, "Inside Out" uses current events to explore psychological issues from a psychoanalytic perspective and appears twice monthly. Her Inside Out Jounal weblog launched in October 2009.
Clinicians can look for her regular column in the online edition of The Therapist Magazine, published by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT). Column abstracts appearing in the print magazine will direct you to the full column posted online.
Professional consultation: Dr. Heller offers group or individual consultation to interns, students and licensed therapists seeking to deepen the nature of their clinical work. She is also a writing/editorial consultant. Psychoanalytic Consultation-Study groups
for therapists
meet the second and third Wednesdays of the month.
Call for more information.
Posted 6/8/11:
Take a look at my current Inside Out Journal column entitled:
The Shape of Fear: on psychic voids and perilous black holes
The capacity to use words and language as symbols of communication is a developmental achievement borne of the elegant and mutually regulating mother-infant dyad. This paper examines what occurs when emotional catastrophe compromises this sensitive process, and speech and words come to be used instead to defend against annihilation anxiety, dread and psychic “black holes” associated with primitive mental states..
www.insideoutjournal.com
This current column also appears
in the online edition of the May-June issue
of the The Therapist Magazine,
published by the
California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT)
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mlheller@mlheller.net or contact Dr. Heller directly at 714/662-7975.
Link to OC Register archived columns:
http://tinyurl.com/m2ralr
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Suite 136
Newport Beach, California 92660
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Centrally located near the John Wayne Airport, my office is a safe and private atmosphere in which to reflect. Located in the John Wayne Executive Guild business park, it is easily accessible from the 55 and 405 freeways and the 73 toll road at the Irvine/Campus exit. Minutes from Newport Beach, Laguna Beach, Irvine, Tustin and Huntington Beach, I look forward to meeting you to discuss your concerns. Day and evening appointments Monday through Thursday.