​​
​Individual/Group/Couples/Workshops/Supervision
212-594-9801
sheri@sheritherapist.com / CONTACT
​
During the COVID-19 health crisis I am currently scheduling only remote (phone/video)  individual sessions from Sunday to Thursday.
Picture
As a psychotherapist who specializes in the treatment of complex trauma and addictive disorders I give priority to cultivating life-affirming creative and spiritual pursuits that inform one's sense of pride and purpose, so as to encourage thriving. 
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. 
​BIO

​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."
There is only one journey- going inside yourself - Rilke​

​"You can sense the work invested in this book....the vast experience of the author with dealing with patients that have childhood traumas, and also her own traumatic childhood made her create a beautiful therapeutic outlet.... If you want to challenge your psyche and find more about yourself than this book is for you.  Highly recommend it." 
​~ Michaelides Andreas / Thirsty4Health

​What makes A Clinician’s Journey an enjoyable read is the manner in which the writer touches issues that lie beyond the limits of her domain and yet have a bearing on our mental well-being. Rev. Heller judiciously uses the subjective and the objective by blending the clinician’s point of view with intensely personal experiences that do not appear out-of-place at all. In fact, those personal elements bring a delightfully sincere touch to what could have otherwise been a dry academic discourse on psychotherapy.
~ Subhamay Ray / bookreviewbook.com
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"
Picture
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 
Picture


​Review by Laura Farrell @ OC87 Recovery Diaries

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
​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 
​