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Dr. Fonya Helm

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I am a caring and dedicated psychotherapist and psychoanalyst, and I have had experience helping people with many different kinds of problems including anxiety and panic attacks,  depression, work related procrastination, writer's block, coping with separation, loss and grief, divorce and other relationship problems.  Since I will be relocating my practice to the Virginia Beach area in June 2009, I am interested in working with people who are comfortable on the telephone.  I have more than 25 years of experience doing psychotherapeutic work by telephone, and I recommend telephone work especially for people who are easily recognized in their communities and want privacy.

SCHEDULE

June, 2010

"Attachment and Love."  To be presented at the Spring Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association in Washington, DC. Chair and Presenter: Curtis Bristol, MD.  Presenter:  Fonya Lord Helm, Ph.D.

January 15, 2009

"Problems and Solutions in Evaluating the Results of Psychoanalysis." Presented at the Winter Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association in New York City.  Chair and Presenter: Sherwood Waldron, MD.  Presenter: Fonya Lord Helm, Ph.D.

February, 2008

"Love Strengthens the Self."  Presented at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Bethesda, MD.

January, 2008

"Transference-Countertransference Enactments."  Presented at the Washington Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology, Bethesda, MD.

JUNE, 2006

“Love.” Discussion group presented with Maurine Kelly, Ph.D. and
E. Lisa Pomeroy, Ph.D.

American Psychoanalytic Association meeting in Washington, DC, June, 2006.

MARCH, 2006

“Assessing personality change in long-term therapy using the Shedler-
Westen Assessment Procedure (SWAP): development of the Personality
Health Index (PHI)”
by Sherwood Waldron, Jonathan Shedler and Fonya
Helm.

A Section VI invited panel presented at the American Psychological Association, Division 39 meeting, April 2006.

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