Dr. Fonya Helm, educated at Harvard and George Washington University, is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Virginia Beach, VA.  She offers psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, couple psychotherapy and supervisory consultations.

Her home office is located in a peaceful, natural setting, and she is licensed in Maryland, the District of Columbia and Virginia.

She is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and is on the faculty of the psychoanalytic program.  She is also a Training and Supervising Analyst at the New York Freudian Society and has taught at the adult psychotherapy program in Washington, DC.  Dr. Helm also has taught at the adult psychotherapy program at the Baltimore-Washington Center for Psychoanalysis and the Central Concepts Program at the Washington School of Psychiatry.   Formerly, she was the Director of the Dynamics of Psychotherapy Training Program at the Washington School of Psychiatry for ten years and President of the Washington Professionals for the Study of Psychoanalysis.

Dr. Helm is especially interested in dream interpretation and discovering more about therapeutic action.  She is a member of the Analytic Process Scales Group, a research group led by Sherwood Waldron, M.D. that focuses on the process and outcome of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.  A further interest is integrating the results of clinical research with new discoveries in neuropsychology and laboratory experiments in cognition. She has published articles on hope and therapeutic interventions, and she has collaborated with colleagues on articles on femininity and the psychodynamic aspects of cognitive-behavioral therapy.

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