Dr. Helen Friedman, a clinical psychologist, is a compassionate and interactive therapist with 10 years of additional training after her Ph.D. and over 33 years in practice. She works with relationships, anxiety, stress, depression, grief, divorce, sexual and work issues. Specialty areas include child sexual abuse (children and adults), sexual compulsivity, dissociative identity disorder, and gender identity issues. She has presented on these topics at national and international scientific conferences and has made numerous appearances on television, radio, and in print (USA Today, New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, New York Post, Psychology Today, Cosmopolitan, New Woman, Mademoiselle, SELF, Redbook, YM, CosmoGIRL!, Salon, etc.).
Trained in a variety of therapeutic modalities (gestalt, family systems, cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic, etc.), she tailors her approach to the individual, couple, or family.
She hosted an award-winning radio show, “PsychTalk,” on KDHX Radio and has been on the Advisory Boards of "CosmoGIRL!" (a national teen magazine) and the Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health (SASH). She received the 2005 SASH Merit Award, presented to her by Dr. Patrick Carnes in San Francisco, CA.
Dr. Friedman is an associate clinical professor in the Department of Community and Family Medicine, St. Louis University School of Medicine; media chair and a former president of the St. Louis Psychological Association; and is featured in the book, The Successful Therapist (Wiley, 2005).
Dr. Friedman returns calls personally and will usually see you within a few days.
Specialties:
Dr. Friedman is broadly and extensively trained, with an additional ten years of post-doctoral training and supervision in gestalt therapy and marriage and family therapy using the Bowen systems model. Specialties include relationship issues, sexual trauma, sexual compulsivity, dissociative disorders, posttraumatic stress, gender identity, grief, and humor.