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We are excited to announce our community summer series! In June, July, and August and September we will be hosting four ...
06/12/2025

We are excited to announce our community summer series! In June, July, and August and September we will be hosting four psychoanalysts who will offer a themed case consultation. We will provide the shrinks and the drinks, you bring the appetizing case material!

Friday, June 13th: Consulting Psychoanalyst Dr. Michelle Harwell will offer case consultation on contemporary relational approach to frame and boundary issues.

Friday, July 11th: Consulting Psychoanalyst Dr. Lilly Gallay will offer case consultation on parallel regression.

Friday, August 8th: Consulting Psychoanalyst Dr. Justin Shubert will offer case consultation on repetition compulsion.

Friday, September 12th: Consulting Psychoanalyst Dr. Aimee Martinez wii offer case consultation on the search for self within relational dynamics marked by asymmetry and longing.

For more info or to register, check out the link in our bio!

Join us for this immersive, in-person seminar where Dr. Philip A. Ringstrom, Ph.D., Psy.D., will guide clinicians throug...
04/18/2025

Join us for this immersive, in-person seminar where Dr. Philip A. Ringstrom, Ph.D., Psy.D., will guide clinicians through his innovative 6-step approach to relational psychoanalytic work with couples. This all-day intensive workshop combines theoretical foundations with practical applications, case presentations, and collaborative discussion.

Whether you’re an experienced therapist or newer to the field, this seminar offers valuable insights into the complex dimensions of couples counseling through a relational psychoanalytic lens. Dr. Ringstrom will explore essential themes including:

Self-actualization within intimate relationships
The dynamics of mutual recognition
Understanding “the relationship having a mind of its own”
Throughout the day, we’ll examine each of the six interlocking steps of Dr. Ringstrom’s technique and develop a deeper understanding of both symmetrical and asymmetrical approaches to couples work. You’ll leave with fresh perspectives on the transferences at play in couples therapy and renewed curiosity and engagement with your couples clients.

Dr. Ringstrom’s approach fills an important gap in contemporary psychoanalysis by offering a comprehensively relational framework for psychoanalytically oriented couples treatment. His model integrates ideas from numerous relational psychoanalytic thinkers while also drawing from other psychoanalytic traditions and social sciences.

The workshop will explore how developmental histories, gender, culture, and dissociated self-states impact couples dynamics, and provide practical strategies for facilitating self-actualization, mutual recognition, and relationship renegotiation. Dr. Ringstrom will illustrate his approach with rich case material drawn from over thirty years of clinical practice.

Join us for an intimate and meaningful dialogue about navigating our roles as practicing clinicians while we, too, carry...
01/15/2025

Join us for an intimate and meaningful dialogue about navigating our roles as practicing clinicians while we, too, carry the weight of collective trauma from the Los Angeles fires. This free community conversation will create space for clinicians to explore how we maintain our therapeutic presence while processing our own grief and anxiety, recognizing that our therapeutic encounters are inevitably shaped by this shared moment of community crisis.
Facilitated by Dr. Michelle Harwell in conversation with Dr. George Bermudez, who will share from his lived experience of losing his home to the fires, and Dr. Peter Maduro, whose voice as a fellow Angeleno clinician will help us navigate this tender terrain. This discussion aims to address the complex dynamics of being both a healing presence for others while acknowledging our own vulnerabilities and losses, how our own raw edges and vulnerabilities meet our patients’ suffering, and how these shared experiences of loss reshape the therapeutic relationship in profound and meaningful ways.
Our conversation will explore the parallel process of how our own grief lives alongside our commitment to our patients, and how finding refuge in our professional community becomes essential when collective trauma touches us all. We’ll reflect together on those moments when our own emotional world meets our clinical work - when shared suffering opens new depths in the therapeutic relationship, and when we struggle to hold the delicate balance between being both container and contained. Rather than a didactic presentation, this will be an opportunity for authentic dialogue and shared experience, grounding ourselves in the understanding that healing happens within and through relationships.

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We hope you had a warm and connected holiday season. And we are wishing you a bright and vitalizing 2024! We look forwar...
12/31/2023

We hope you had a warm and connected holiday season. And we are wishing you a bright and vitalizing 2024! We look forward to bringing our community some enriching and innovative trainings in the New Year…Stay tuned! - MHT

It's finally here! This summer Dr. Harwell is facilitating a free conversational online class on relational psychoanalys...
05/31/2023

It's finally here! This summer Dr. Harwell is facilitating a free conversational online class on relational psychoanalysis.

We believe clinicians are hungry for spaces that offer vitality, complexity, and a deep relationality that makes room for recognition of otherness and belonging; dialogue that sheds the suffocating malaise of moral hierarchy and risks something real and vulnerable to know one another, to feel one another a little more. And we think relational psychoanalysis in its ideals offers us the potential of this kind of authentic encounter.

Dr. Michelle Harwell will be facilitating this FREE online community class on relational psychoanalysis where you will witness honest and vulnerable dialogue with leading contemporary relational thinkers exploring the radical roots of relational psychoanalysis, where it is heading, what it continues to offer a younger generation of therapists, and what we must address to remain relevant.

Trust us, you don’t want to miss this lineup! For more info, click the link in our bio.

MHT is proud to offer a new in-person consultation group solely for clinicians of color in North East Los Angeles led by...
04/27/2023

MHT is proud to offer a new in-person consultation group solely for clinicians of color in North East Los Angeles led by Pilar Haile-Damato, LCSW. Our monthly meetings will provide an opportunity for practicing clinicians to gather together to present cases, learn more about psychodynamic theory, process experiences, and most importantly, belong. This offering is for POC clinicians with a current caseload. There is a pre-screening interview prior to joining this group. DM us for more info! Link in bio.

Wishing you a warm and heartfelt holiday season to all! - the MHT Community
12/26/2022

Wishing you a warm and heartfelt holiday season to all! - the MHT Community

We are excited to announce that we are hiring! We are seeking engaged and creative clinicians who desire to be a part of...
12/23/2022

We are excited to announce that we are hiring! We are seeking engaged and creative clinicians who desire to be a part of our vibrant learning community. If this is you, reach out by by emailing us at info@michelleharwelltherapy.com

A little about us:

We are a group of psychotherapists dedicated to the creativity that life demands to be fully alive and we take our craft seriously. We are committed to deep reflection and deliberate action in the world.

On a daily basis, we engage in top-notch collegial consultation and high quality supervision, which holds and supports the heartbeat of our clinical work. We offer a highly engaged learning community that is like no other you will meet. Our innovative and integrative training program blends contemporary psychoanalytic theory with an interdisciplinary approach that appreciates body-based and brain-based approaches.

Currently we are seeking two licensed therapist to join our community, with specific emphasis on clinicians with experience in child and family and/or couples work. If that's you or you know someone who might be a good fit for our community, reach out! Let's start a conversation.

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Sharing in intimacy is what makes relationships thrive, that make relationships worth it. While sensuality is about phys...
12/08/2022

Sharing in intimacy is what makes relationships thrive, that make relationships worth it. While sensuality is about physical touch, intimacy is about the emotional closeness.

Aspects of intimacy can include:
✨ Liking or loving another person — having a close emotional connection to someone is intimacy lived out
✨ Emotional risk taking — To have intimacy in a relationship, a person must be willing to open up, to be vulnerable, and to trust another person with their thoughts, feelings, and being. This vulnerability is risky, as it puts us in a position to be judged, left, or forgotten; yet, the risk is worth it when we experience the intimacy of being fully known and loved.

As humans, we do not need just s*xual encounters to be intimate with someone. In a healthy and thriving relationship between others, the expression of s*xuality includes both physical and emotional expressions.

Were you taught about intimacy being an emotional bond between two people?
When you think of intimacy, what do you think of?
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Sensuality gives us the ability to feel good about how our bodies look and feel and what they can do. It allows us to en...
12/05/2022

Sensuality gives us the ability to feel good about how our bodies look and feel and what they can do. It allows us to enjoy the pleasure our bodies can give us and others.

This part of our s*xuality affects our behavior in several ways:
✨ Understanding about our anatomy and physiology — the more we know and understand about our bodies, the more we can figure out what feels good to us
✨ Body image — how we see ourselves affects a multitude of aspects in our lives. We may have trouble experiencing sensuality with ourselves or with others depending on how we view our bodies.
✨ Experiencing pleasure and release from s*xual tension — Sensuality allows us to experience pleasure when we or others touch certain parts of our body. Having an or**sm is a result of the s*xual response cycle we each have.
✨ Satisfying skin hunger - As humans, we have a basic need to be touched and held by others in a loving and caring way. When we do not receive this, we can have go through seasons of “skin hunger,” where we long for this touch. Sometimes we simply need to be held instead of having s*x.
✨ Feeling physical attraction for another person — the center of sensuality and attraction is not in the ge****ls but in the brain, the most important “s*x organ.” The response for s*xual attraction rests here.
✨ Fantasy — Our brains give us the capacity to have fantasies about s*xual behaviors and experiences. Fantasies are normal but do not always have to be acted upon.

Is any of this new information to you?
What were you taught about growing up about sensuality?
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S*xuality is part of who we are as a person. Western s*x education is very limited about what it labels “s*x” as. S*x is...
12/03/2022

S*xuality is part of who we are as a person. Western s*x education is very limited about what it labels “s*x” as. S*x is more than the physical act of bodies coming together, s*x has to do with gender, pleasure, intimacy, attitudes, beliefs, erotica, and so much more. It’s a lifetime journey learning about our s*xual selves. By building s*xual knowledge and self-reflection we can become more liberated and empowered s*xually.

Dr. Dennis Daley created what is known as the circles of s*xuality. There are different parts to our s*xuality, and they all play a significant part in our s*x life. All s*xual beliefs and behaviors will fit into one of the Circles of S*xuality. The five circles are: Intimacy, identity, sensuality, health and reproduction and s*xualization. Throughout the next six weeks, we will unpack each of these circles.
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S*xuality is so much bigger than the narratives we’ve been told. It is complex, full, and encompassing. ...
12/01/2022

S*xuality is so much bigger than the narratives we’ve been told. It is complex, full, and encompassing.

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5740 York Boulevard , Suite B
Los Angeles, CA
90042

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Tuesday 7am - 10pm
Wednesday 7am - 10pm
Thursday 7am - 10pm
Friday 7am - 10pm
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