Helene is a licensed clinical psychologist who has been working at Northwestern Medicine since 2008. Currently she maintains a clinical practice at the Northwestern’s Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, conducting both individual and group sessions.

Helene is also on the medical staff at Northwestern’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and she is an assistant professor at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.

Helene’s treatment and teaching focus was primarily on CBT, but since 2011, when she received her Master’s in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, she began integrating positive psychology into her work.

Helene runs positive psychotherapy groups, conducts positive psychology seminars for medical students and psychology interns, teaches positive psychology classes to graduate students, and partakes in many other interesting and fun projects related to this field.