Margo Helman

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Nov 23, 2016, 11:50 AM

Married to Myself?

Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City married herself because of a pair of shoes and Sue Sylvester did it in Glee. But actually in every marriage our relationship with ourselves is the one that sets the stage. The...

Nov 10, 2016, 8:00 AM

Married to Trump

A woman holds an American flag as she watches the voting results at Democratic presidential nominee former Hillary Clinton's election night event at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City on November 9, 2016. (Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP)

Applying a therapeutic paradigm: If you’re in it for the long haul, how are you going to make this work?

Nov 8, 2016, 7:08 AM

Marriage: Immensely Painful Challenges and Growth

Recently I wrote that marriage is the world’s best self development program, hands down. Marriage creates this opportunity by generously providing each partner with immensely painful challenges that must be worked out in order to live well in the...

Nov 1, 2016, 12:39 PM

Marriage: The World’s Best Self Development Program

Troubles in your marriage? Troubled by your marriage? For many people the answer to at least one of these questions, at least some of the time, is a resounding YES. Marriage is hard. Take two people who’ve accumulated different experiences,...

Oct 13, 2015, 8:44 PM

Fear and Terror: Five Mindfulness Tools to Help You Calm Down

Terrorism has a very clear goal: to terrify us. People are being harmed bodily. Many, many more people are being harmed emotionally. Calming down helps fight the emotional effects of terrorism. Mindfulness - focusing on the here and now –...

Sep 9, 2015, 5:30 PM

The work of therapy, the work of life, is to face it. Face it. That’s what there is to do. Simcha-Yael Pazuelo z”l, a psychologist and meditation teacher who lived with cancer for many years, wrote these words about...

Mar 11, 2013, 6:56 AM

Politicians in Pain: O Walk Straight!

In my work as a therapist I talk to people in pain. Physical pain caused by tension or illness. Emotional pain caused by depression, anxiety or grief. Adults can express pain with tears, anger or numbness. Children often express...

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About Me

Margo Helman, MSW, clinical social worker and therapist. margohelman.wordpress.com Margo works with individuals, couples and families, adults and children, coping with depression, anxiety, relationship and developmental issues. She works in private practice and is clinical director of Gisha Lachaim (Tishkofet), a non profit that works to increase the focus on quality of life when living with or treating serious illness and loss. Formerly a midwife, Margo likes to remember that pain can sometimes be a precursor to joy.