I am a caring and dedicated psychotherapist and psychoanalyst and have had experience helping people with many different kinds of problems, including those listed below.

Anxiety, Worry and Panic attacks

                                   Depression and Low Mood

                                   Frustation and Irritation

                                   Loss and Grief

                                   Separation and Divorce

                                   Relationship Issues

                                   Work related procrastination

                                   Writer's block

If you are having trouble with any of these issues, or a more general difficulty regulating your moods, please call me at 757-282-3525 or email me at fonya.helm@cox.net.

FUTURE PRESENTATION SCHEDULE

June 9, 2011

"Love and Attachment."  To be presented as part of a Discussion Group titled "Love, Sex and the American Psyche," Co-Chairs: Curtis Bristol, M.D. and Stefan Pasternack, M.D., Presenter:  Fonya Helm, Ph.D., ABPP, Discussant:  Maurine Kelly, Ph.D., at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association in San Francisco, CA.       Chair and Presenter: Curtis Bristol, MD.  Presenter:  Fonya Lord Helm, Ph.D.

RECENT PRESENTATIONS

August 14, 2010

"Nonverbal Parallel Process:  The Gaze."  Presented at the Summer Meeting of the American Psychological Association in San Diego, CA as part of an invited panel "Focus on Parallel Process," for Division 39, Section V at the Hospitality Suite, San Diego Marriott.       Presenters:  Sandra Ullman, Ph.D., Fonya Lord Helm, Ph.D.  Discussant:  Hedda Bolger, 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. at the Spring Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association meeting in Washington, D.C.

APRIL, 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, Ph.D. Presented as an invited panel at the American Psychological Association, Division 39, Section VI.

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