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Healing the Mind, Healing the Body
An Interview with Helen Adrienne, MSW, ACSW, BCD
By Gwen Morrison
Adrienne is prepared to do whatever kind of therapy makes sense for each person, including providing mind/body support groups. "These groups are designed to help people dealing with such an abundance of stress 'come in for a landing,'" she says.
Her experience over 20 years ago as a gynecological and obstetric patient had a huge impact. "One aspect of many that heightened my awareness of the mind/body connection came as a result of a 4th-month miscarriage," she recalls. "When I lost the baby, my emotional upset altered my menstrual cycle from 30 days to 60 so that it took me six months to conceive again."
Through her personalized therapy, Adrienne helps patients sift through the emotional side of infertility. She feels strongly that hypnosis as one kind of therapy is a wonderful way to arrive at a place where mind and body meet. Traditional "talk therapy" is a way for patients to interact with each other, opening up a door to building confidence.
"Poor self-esteem can also prevent the resolution of infertility," she says. "Although one of my clients was a high-powered executive herself, for many years she could not find the inner strength to stand up to her husband's refusal to investigate their infertility medically. Ten years had gone by without a conception. Her underlying desire to be a mother wilted in the face of his stubbornness. Her fear of confronting the issue with him meant that respect for her own feelings needed to be suppressed."
Adrienne explains that three years later, the woman has discovered that although it has been painful for her to give up her quest for motherhood, she likes her life. "She has gradually learned to successfully stand up to her husband's rigidity and has taught him what her other important needs are in the marriage," Adrienne says.
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