About the Author

Dr. Mauri-Lynne Heller is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Psychoanalyst in private practice in the Newport Beach area of Southern California. Specializing in creativity; trauma; phase of life and human development issues; and chronic illness, she treats adolescents, young adults and adults; couples, individuals and small groups.

A graduate of the University of California, Irvine, Pepperdine University and Newport Psychoanalytic Institute, Dr. Heller is a member of the Newport Center for Psychoanalytic Studies, where she is also on faculty and an active member of the Writing and Research Task Force and Speaker’s Bureau.

A regular contributor to the online Health and Fitness and Blog Pages of the Orange County Register, her column, Inside Out uses current events to explore psychological issues from a psychoanalytic perspective and appears twice monthly.  Her columns also appear regularly in the online pages of The Therapist Magazine, published by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT).

Dr. Heller also facilitates psychoanalytic study-consultation groups and offers group or individual consultation to interns, students and licensed therapists seeking to deepen the nature of their clinical work. She is also a writing and editorial consultant.

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To learn more about psychoanalytic therapy and Dr. Heller’s practice:  www.mlheller.net