Rev. Sheri Heller
LCSW
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Rev. Sheri Heller, LCSW Expert
Rev. Sheri Heller Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Complex Trauma, Addiction, Creativity, Spirituality
- Career Focus
- Psychotherapist. Hypnotist, Addiction Specialist, Interfaith Minister
- Affiliation
- Women's Media Center's SheSource, OneSpirit Interfaith Seminary, NYSEPH
Rev. Sheri Heller, LCSW is a NYC psychotherapist and interfaith minister in private practice. Sheri is also a free-lance writer, a playwright and the creator of a therapeutic theater event for at-risk women and girls in the public sector of NYC. She is also listed as an expert in the Women's Media Center's SheSource database, a resource for journalists, bookers, and producers. Sheri's journey of recovery was told through an animated film short by OC87 Recovery Diaries, aired on PBS. She is the author of A Clinicians Journey from Complex Trauma to Thriving: Reflections on Abuse, C-PTSD and Reclamation.
For more information visit sheritherapist.com
Free Articles & Book Excerpts
Phoenix Project NYC - Therapeutic Theater
http://phoenixprojectnyc.blogspot.com/
Sistah Tribe presents Let the Phoenix Rise/Scene4 Magazine
http://www.scene4.com/0611/sheriheller0611.html
The Sistah Tribe Theater Project- Giving Creative Expression to Childhood Trauma
http://www.hercircleezine.com/2012/04/01/the-sistah-tribe-phoenix-project-giving-creative-expression-to-childhood-trauma/
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Rev. Sheri Heller Books
A Clinician's Jou ey from Complex Trauma to Thriving: Reflections on Abuse, C-PTSD and Reclamation
https://www.amazon.com/Clinicians-Jou ey-Complex-Trauma-Thriving/dp/1522055568/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1502378122&sr=1-1
A Clinician's Jou ey from Complex Trauma to Thriving: Reflections on Abuse, C-PTSD and Reclamation
https://books2read.com/u/mKJx0Z
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Living Our Creative Vision
When you free-associate with the concept of creativity, what arises? Perhaps what you connect to involves turning ideas into reality and plumbing the depths of imagination. Perhaps you think of particular artistic mediums, or of ways of being that entail risk taking, and exploration. For some, creativity is a soulful expression of self in whatever way fully reflects that person’s essence. Humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow asked, “The key question isn’t ‘what fosters creativity?’ but it is why in God’s name isn’t everyone creative?
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Meaning & Suffering
My experiences as a psychotherapist and spiritual counselor have made it evident to me that we all seek to disce a deeper meaning in our human existence by connecting with a higher spiritual sense of life, on personal and collective levels. There are universal questions and conce s that invariably emerge for all of us. Who am I? What is my purpose? What fuels my quest for meaning in life? What makes life meaningful? What meaning does God and faith embody for me?
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The Alchemical Journey towards the Self
If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you, ---Jesus
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Aphrodite's Wound: Women & Sex Addiction
Aphrodite’s story begins with a violent birth with absent parents and a castrated father. We can conjecture that her violent birth contributed to her cruelty and vindictiveness in which she used her beauty as a channel for her aggression. In her compulsive search to transcend the pain of her aloneness, she seeks pleasure and beauty through a sensory driven reality devoid of morality. We could say that Aphrodite, like all of us, was expelled from the paradisical harmony of the womb/ocean and into a world where she is left to face the difficult and frightening realization of her aloneness.
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Resurrecting the Great Mother
“I found god in myself and I loved her /I loved her fiercely.”rn - Ntozake Shange
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Healing from Childhood Trauma
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.rn- Kahlil Gibran The intention of this article is to encourage the healing of the traumatized child. Carl Jung said: “ In every adult there lurks a child – an ete al child, something that is always becoming, is never completed and calls for unceasing care, attention and education. That is the part of the human personality which wants to develop and become whole.” Healing from trauma is a complex and courageous journey back to the ete al child…returning to the inherent longing for wholeness.
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Thriving As a Private Practice Clinician in a Managed Care World
Over a year ago I was very disillusioned by my dealings with managed care. I was aware of the fact that I was receiving insurance reimbursement rates 60% lower than the standard fee for psychotherapy in NYC. As a result I was burning out having to work excessive hours to meet overhead expenses, and I was wasting precious time battling it out with corrupt insurance companies who all too frequently delayed the processing of claims. When two major insurance companies merged, the fallout became unbearable.
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Addiction and the Quest for Wholeness
Where there’s emptiness there’s hunger. Passionate hunger fuels a need for connection and completion. We are innately driven to fill emptiness in a self-transcendent way through whatever we can attach to that offers us the promise of fulfillment. In our desperation, the longing for wholeness, cohesion, connection, power, and love may cause us to compulsively latch onto a drug, a thing or a person. There may be a momentary illusion of wholeness that results, and that compels us onward to acquire more.
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Rev. Sheri Heller
"We cannot live in a world that is not our own, in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a HOME. part of the terror is to take back our own listening, to use our own voice, to see our own light." ----- Saint Hildegarde de Bingen
--- Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
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I believe that suffering, in stripping away illusions, unlocks those questions conce ed with larger meaning. It is our greatest pain that may contain a deeper purpose. Therapist and patient enter into those places most feared for the purpose of healing through suffering, with the intent of actualizing wholeness.
I believe intrinsic change and healing is contingent on the individual’s commitment to truth and the courage to uphold one’s truth at all cost. The symptoms or illnesses one presents with are often metaphorical displays of the concealed or repressed ‘Self’ which seeks expression. Accordingly, the patient’s challenge is to reveal the ‘truths’ behind the symptoms or illness and to thereby experience the entire range of emotions inherent in reclaiming oneself.
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