“When two people listen to each other’s feelings, they create a space for love.” Everyone can fall in love, but not everyone can stay in love. Falling in love does not require emotional strength. Staying in love requires great emotional strength and well-being. Love is about connecting at the emotional …
THE THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP
The experience of being deeply understood by another person is in itself transformational. The prisoner cannot free himself from the prison.” The Talmud It is almost impossible to free ourselves from our own emotional prisons. We need someone else to unlock the door. We cannot do it entirely by ourselves. …
THE LOSS OF SELF AND PERSONAL POWER
When we lose touch with our feelings and needs, we lose our selfhood and vitality. One of the major consequences of developmental trauma is that your self-development may have been significantly derailed. The home is the place where a fundamental developmental drama takes place for each and every one of …
ORGANIZING PRINCIPLES
One of the most fundamental causes of personal suffering is that people are imprisoned by their limiting organizing principles. The most primary activity of the human mind is that of interpreting and organizing our life experience. It’s crucial to understand that most of this organizing activity takes place unconsciously. As …
HIDDEN TRUTHS
Repression prevents us from knowing the full truth about ourselves. We cannot fully heal what we cannot experience. If you have experienced any developmental trauma in your life, it is likely that you have repressed it and are therefore not aware of it. This is understandable because people naturally tend …
TIME AND TRANSFORMATION
Emotional integration is what relieves emotional suffering, heals, and transforms. It takes time to bring about deep and lasting change. Such change can not be rushed. We live in a world of fast everything: fast food, fast love, fast change and quick fixes. Self-help seminars promise to change your life …
THE PAST
Blaming your parents for your problems will get you nowhere. Understanding how your relationship with them impacted you could change your life. “Those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” George Santayana People often ask, “What good is it to go back into my past and …
FEELINGS
Understanding your feelings is the key to discovering new possibilities. Feelings provide us with invaluable information about ourselves, others, and our world. From a psychological perspective, the ultimate challenge of life is to feel fully alive. Only you know how alive you really feel. You may feel fully alive or …
Welcome!
I’m Dov Heller, LMFT – Licensed Family and Marriage Therapist
I can help you in your journey towards becoming your best self and feeling more alive with my unique approach that
- Combines the depth of psychotherapy
- The practical focus of a life coach
- The wisdom of Jewish values and spirituality (read more about approach)
Contact me now for a free consultation!
Phone: 310.903.9078
Email: dov@claritytalk.com
I have spent ten years being trained and mentored by Dr. Robert Stolorow, one of the most prominent and influential thinkers and practitioners in the field of Relational Psychoanalysis. I also hold masters degrees in Contemporary Theology from Harvard University and in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University. I have 35 years of rabbinic experience working with the entire spectrum of the Jewish community as a Jewish educator and seminar facilitator. (read more about me)