PSYCHOTHERAPIST & CERTIFIED COACH
Complex Trauma, Addiction, Narcissistic Abuse
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As a psychotherapist who specializes in the treatment of complex trauma and addictive disorders and a certified coach specializing in moving from surviving to thriving, I give priority to cultivating life-affirming creative and spiritual pursuits that inform one's sense of pride and purpose. BIO
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My treatment approach is traditional and holistic. I incorporate a psychoanalytic and behaviorally oriented knowledge base with (12-step) philosophy, hypnosis, Gestalt techniques, Jungian psychology, and other diverse spiritual and creative vehicles. My love of and involvement in the arts pre-disposes me to effectively process creative blocks and stagnation. It also lends itself to perceiving healing as a creative process, and accordingly, to access the creative resources within all of us that inspire wholeness. This perspective contributed to my facilitating healing through therapeutic theater (The Sistah Tribe Phoenix Project).
I comprehensively treat addictive disorders including process addictions, such as love & sex addiction, trauma/complex post-traumatic stress, narcissistic abuse syndrome, mood disorders, and women's issues. I have received level I certification in Dr. Karyl McBride's five-step recovery model for treating adult children of narcissists.
I adhere to a traditional psychodynamic approach, and incorporate hypnosis, creative arts, and spiritual perspectives, when it reflects the patients clinical needs and wants. When indicated, resources, such as bodywork, psychopharmacology, psychodrama groups, and workshops, are integrated into the treatment process. |
Please note that I am scheduling remote (phone/video) individual sessions from Sunday to Thursday. I currently have some in-person availability on Wednesday afternoons in Park Slope Brooklyn. All group work is presently on hold.
There is only one journey- going inside yourself - Rilke
The paradoxical journey of life contains both great joy and debilitating suffering. Therapy involves sharing one's suffering and joy with a witness who can hold a sacred space with humanity and insight. This holding environment lends itself to stripping away illusions so as to unlock the truth, and to ultimately explore the questions concerned with larger meaning. Together therapist and patient enter those places most feared for the purpose of healing and growth. Consequently this process of recovery and self-reclamation reveals it is our greatest pain that may contain a deeper purpose. We discover that therapy is a place to realize one's potentials; to know who we are and what we may be. We come to recognize that psychological growth and spiritual development are not dissimilar, but rather facets which constitute the whole of who we are."
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An important thing to know when entering LCSW, Rev. Sheri Heller’s comprehensive and analytically deep book, A Clinician’s Journey from Complex Trauma to Thriving, is that this is not a self-help book; it does not prescribe a process for healing complex trauma, except to emphasize the necessity for professional, skillful, and compassionate clinical therapy. With that understood, this truly insightful and informative book – a collection of individual articles addressing specific forms of complex trauma and its consequences – does much more than just describe the often-debilitating symptoms presenting from a wide variety of personal and social traumas" 
A Clinician's Journey from Complex Trauma to Thriving: Reflections on Abuse, C-PTSD and Reclamation is an anthology of articles by Rev. Sheri Heller, LCSW. Written for survivors and clinicians this collection was inspired by Rev. Heller's unrelenting struggle with recovering from complex ptsd rooted in systemic and generational child abuse, and her commitment to devoting her life to helping others similarly afflicted. Spanning the trajectory from abuse, complex trauma, addictions, the relational quest, recovery and treatment, and ultimately thriving creatively and spiritually, this assortment of writings offers a comprehensive assessment of the healing process and the triumph of reclamation.
books2read.com/u/4AwJAN Review by Joel R. Dennstedt for Readers' Favorite |
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Women on the Edge by Sheri Heller is a collection of short stories about five women whose lives are plagued by cruelty, deprivation, oppression and violence. Through inhabiting the raw, complex lives of these women we discover the absurdity, the tragedy and the resiliency of the human condition. We also come to recognize that what is often deemed 'madness' is a descent into darkness where unbearable truths are confronted. Available at these stores 
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An Orphan's Memorial to her Dying Mother // Full Interview & Animated Short at OC87 Recovery Diaries
Sheri's journey of recovery was told through an animated film short created by OC87 Recovery Diaries curator/filmmaker Glenn Holsten and animator Paul Fierlinger. Part of a one hour OC87 mental health special this short was aired on PBS
Sheri's journey of recovery was told through an animated film short created by OC87 Recovery Diaries curator/filmmaker Glenn Holsten and animator Paul Fierlinger. Part of a one hour OC87 mental health special this short was aired on PBS
