Helen Adrienne’s heart has been in private practice since 1979 both as a general therapist, working with a multitude of issues, and as a specialist providing mental health services for infertility or reproductive and gynecologic patients in New York City, Manhattan, and Bergen County, New Jersey

A graduate of Rutgers University and Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service, Helen went on to train in family therapy, mind/body medicine, cognitive therapy, guided meditation and Ericksonian clinical hypnotherapy.

Helen has served as adjunct instructor of ob-gyn at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and New York Medical College. While on the life-long learning faculty of Rockland Community College, she led workshops on menopause and premenstrual syndrome. With a grant from the American Association of University Women and the support of Rockland Community College and the Rockland County Mental Health Association, she designed and ran a conference on complementary treatments for menopause. More than 200 women attended this conference in 1993, which was a cutting edge approach to the topic at that time.

Helen is a founding member of the New York City chapter of RESOLVE™, a national infertility organization. For many years she has run mind/body support groups through Resolve for the infertile patient.

She has been invited to share her expertise in the area of infertility at the conferences of two prestigious organizations, the Milton H. Erickson Foundation and the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis. Helen presents at local conferences as well.

Furthermore, Helen is an approved consultant for the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis and is on the faculty of the New York Society of Ericksonian Psychotherapy and Hypnosis.

Helen has been published on the topic of the emotional aspects of infertility and is the monthly columnist for the infertility website INCIID. Her articles are available on this website under ARTICLES.

The idea that the mind and the body are an inseparable unit (commonly called the “bodymind”) is documented scientifically and seems like common sense to us today. Helen Adrienne has been among those progressive psychotherapists who, decades ago, recognized that mental health services are best focused on the place where mind and body meet.

Whether a medical condition triggers emotional issues or emotional issues impact the body, Helen is attuned, well-trained and devoted to providing appropriate therapeutic interventions and facilitating relief, healing and resolution of emotional strain and physical symptoms. Helen continues to provide services for men, women, couples and groups.

LICENSING

Helen Adrienne is a licensed Social Worker in New York and New Jersey, and is a Board Certified Diplomat in Clinical Social Work.