Helen Marlo, Ph.D.

Dean, Clinical Psychology Department

Chair, Clinical Psychology Department

Professor, Clinical Psychology

Licensed Clinical Psychologist (PSY 15318)

Psychoanalyst (Member, C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco)

Dr. Marlo has been on the faculty of the graduate Department of Clinical Psychology at NDNU since 1999. She has been serving as Department Chair since 2013. She was a faculty scholar with NDNU’s Sr. Dorothy Stang Center for Social Justice and Community Engagement and taught community-based learning courses. She began her academic career in 1990 and has taught undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students at the University of South Carolina; Palo Alto University (formerly Pacific Graduate School of Psychology), and Sofia University (formerly Institute of Transpersonal Psychology). Dr. Marlo’s website is www.helenmarlophd.com.

She earned her doctorate in Clinical-Community Psychology from the University of South Carolina after graduating with her bachelor’s degree in Psychology at the University of Missouri. She completed a pre-doctoral internship and post-doctoral fellowship at the Palo Alto Veterans Administration Health Care System and a post-doctoral fellowship at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center. After becoming licensed as a clinical psychologist, she completed a seven-year advanced analytic training program at the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco where she was certified as a psychoanalyst.

Currently, Dr. Marlo maintains a private practice in San Mateo, CA, providing psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and consultation to adults and children. She also teaches at a variety of psychotherapy training programs, including the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, where she trains diverse mental health professionals and psychoanalytic candidates. She is the founder and co-facilitator of “Mentoring Mothers,” a complimentary, consultative community service for mothers and infants. She is the Reviews Editor for Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche and serves on several Boards including AbilityPath and National League of Young Men.

Dr. Marlo trained and worked in private and public institutions, including Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto Veterans Administration Health Care System, Kaiser Permanente Health Care System, University of South Carolina’s Department of Family and Preventive Medicine; Richland Memorial Hospital Emergency Room, and Columbia Area Mental Health Center. She has significant clinical experience treating trauma, lifespan developmental issues, and reproductive mental health, including perinatal problems, birth trauma, pregnancy and infant loss, infertility, and obstetric/gynecological illnesses.

Dr. Marlo and her husband enjoy life together with their two daughters and son. She enjoys her close relationships, art, culture, travel, reading, film, yoga, meditation, and dance.

Education and Training

Certified Jungian Analyst, C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, 2011.
Psychologist License (PSY15318), 1997.
Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Fremont, CA, 1996-1997. Brief therapy, family practice; reproductive mental health.
Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Palo Alto Veterans Administration Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA, 1995-1997. Long-term psychotherapy, trauma, severe mental illness, dual diagnosis.
Pre-Doctoral Internship, Palo Alto Veterans Administration Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA, 1994-1995. Long-term psychotherapy, severe mental illness, dual diagnosis, trauma, neuropsychology, behavioral medicine.
D., Clinical-Community Psychology. University of South Carolina, Columbia, 1995.
BA, Psychology. University of Missouri – Columbia, 1989.
- Minor: Religious Studies
- Honors in Psychology
- Summa cum laude

Courses Taught

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Trauma, Crisis, and Recovery
Professional Ethics and Law
Clinical Case Seminar
Clinical Case Practicum
Specialized Clinical Topics
Psychology of Adjustment and Personal Growth
Psychoanalytic Treatment of Trauma: An Integrative Approach
Advanced Psychotherapy Skills: A Psychodynamic/Jungian Approach
Developmental Psychology: Infancy through Childhood
Developmental Psychology: Adolescence through Adulthood/Geriatrics
Psychology of Marriage
Biopsychosocial Aspects of Addiction
Diagnosis, Assessment, Referral of Addictions
Substance Abuse and Dependence
Advanced Clinical Seminar
Communication and Counseling Skills
Psychotherapy Theory and Research
Group Psychotherapy
Group Experience
Cross-Cultural Issues
Psychopathology and Psychodiagnosis
Abnormal Psychology
Survey of Personality

Selected Courses for Licensed Professionals

Jungian Psychoanalysis in a Time of Darkness: Exploring the Language of Dreams and Reverie: Messengers of the Unconscious
Deepening the Work: Relational Psychotherapy through a Jungian Lens
The Infant Within
Psychoanalysis and Creativity: How Art and Spirituality Catalyze Emotional Growth
Birth of the Self: Healing the Traumatized Infant Within
Out of Dissociation into Creation through Relation: Connecting with Art and Soul

Community Service

Mentoring Mothers
Board Member, AbilityPath
Board Member, National League of Young Men
Extended Education Committee Member, C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco
Advisory Board Member, Burkard School
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley

Research and Interests

Depth Psychology
Spirituality
Synchronicity
Psychoneuroimmunology
Reproductive Mental Health (perinatal issues, birth trauma, infant loss, infertility, attachment and bonding)
Birth
Trauma

Recognitions

George M. Keller Teaching Excellence Award, Notre Dame de Namur University, 2018
Tenure, 2011
NDNU Faculty Development Grant, 2011
NDNU Faculty Scholar, Sr. Dorothy Stang Center for Social Justice and Community Engagement, 2011
NDNU’s Fifteen, Ten, and Five-Year Service Recognition Award, 2006, 2011, 2016
Gronowski Outstanding Faculty of the Year, Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, 1998
Summa cum laude, Distinguished Academic Achievement, University of Missouri, 1989
Honors Scholar, Dept. of Psychology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 1989

Selected Publications

Pearson, W., & Marlo, H. (Eds.). The Spiritual Psyche: Mysticism, Intersubjectivity, and Psychoanalysis in Clinical Practice. London:
Marlo, H. (2019). New mothers and PTSD. Academic Minute. https://academicminute.org/2019/08/helen-marlo-notre-dame-de-namur-university-new-mothers-and-ptsd/. Reposted in Inside Higher Education. https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2019/08/07/academic-minute-new-mothers-and-ptsd.
Marlo, H. (2018). Experiencing College: A Crash Course. Notre Dame de Namur University. Reposted in Colleges of Distinction. https://collegesofdistinction.com/advice/experiencing-college-a-crash-course-faculty-highlight-from-notre-dame-de-namur-university/
Marlo, H. (2016). Into the Woods with Jean Bolen: Activism, Artemis, and Archetypes. Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche.
Marlo, H. (2013). Between the Worlds—Healing Trauma, Body, and Soul: A Conversation with Donald Kalsched. Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche, 7:3, 117-141
Marlo, H. (2007). Coming into the Heart of Mind. Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche, 1, 3, 55-65.
Marlo, H. & Kalinian, H. (2002). Utilizing psychoanalytic psychotherapy in the treatment of substance abusers. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 9, 211-223.
Marlo, H. & Wagner, M. (1999). Expression of negative and positive events through writing: Implications for psychotherapy and health. Psychology and Health, 14, 2, 193-215.
Marlo, H., & Kline, J.S. (1998). Synchronicity in psychotherapy: Unconscious communication in the therapeutic relationship. Psychotherapy, 35, 1, 13-22.

Selected Workshops & Presentations

Beitman, B., & Marlo, H. (2021). Synchronicity-Informed Psychotherapy. Connecting with Coincidence.
Marlo, H. (2021). Birth and Perinatal Trauma: Implications for Care and Treatment. Mills-Peninsula Hospital, Burlingame, CA.
Marlo, H. (2021). Women’s Empowerment in Pandemic Times for Rural Empowerment through Education, Training, and Information Conference: In Celebration of International Women’s Day. World Forum for Education, India.
Marlo, H. (2021). Work-Life Integration for Caregivers in COVID Times. Healthy Horizons, Burlingame, CA.
Beitman, B, & Marlo, H. (2020). Corona Coincidences: Beckoning Reflection, Hope, Faith, and Action. Connecting with Coincidence.
Marlo, H. (2019). Trauma-Informed Education and Care in the Face of Developmental Challenges and Special Needs. The Burkard School, San Mateo, CA.
Marlo, H. (2019). Make Your Life Like Music: Work-Life Rhythm, Mentoring Mothers, and Home for reinventinghome.org by Founder, Valerie Andrews.
Beitman, B., & Marlo, H. (2018). Synchronicity Speaks. Connecting with Coincidence.
Marlo, H. (2018). Home Coming: Journeys to the Self. With Kathy Curran, MSW; Robin Eve Greenberg, MA, MFT; Jim McGarry; Barbara Morrill, Ph.D.; Steve Zemmelman, MSW, Ph.D., C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, S.F., CA.
Marlo, H. (2017). The Impact of Trauma on the Individual and Collective Psyche and The Trauma of Violence; The Violence of Trauma. Presentations at the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. San Francisco, CA.
Marlo, H. (2016). Inspired Educators in a Secular Age: Spirituality in Higher Education with Barbara Morrill, Ph.D., Richard Morrill, Ph.D., Alexander Astin, Ph.D., John Astin, Ph.D., Debashish Banerji, Ph.D., at Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont, CA.
Marlo, H. (2015). Psychic Birth and Rebirth through Analysis and Birth of the Self. Presentation for Oregon Friends of Jung, Unity Church of Portland, Portland, OR.
Marlo, H. (2015). Birth of the Self. Presentation with John Beebe, M.D., Karen Peoples, Ph.D., Beverley Zabriskie, L.C.S.W., at the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. San Francisco, CA.
Marlo, H. (2010). Psychic Birth: A Narrative of Transformative Analytic Work. Fall Symposium Speaker, The Psychotherapy Institute, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.
Marlo, H. (2008). Spirituality and Trauma. Paper presented and moderator for the Transforming Trauma: Psychological and Spiritual Pathways to Healing Conference with Joseph Bobrow; Donald Kalsched; Jack Kornfield; and Ann Ulanov, Deep Streams Institute and The Coming Home Project, San Francisco, CA.
Marlo, H. (2008). Contemporary Soul in Practice: One Woman’s Evolving Narrative. Presentation at the Embodied Wisdom: Jung, Neuroscience, and Authentic Movement—Multidisciplinary Prospectives with Joan Chodorow, Dyane Sherwood, Tina Stromsted, and Margaret Wilkinson, C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
Marlo, H. (2004). Law and Ethics. The Peninsula Training Collaborative, San Mateo, CA.
Marlo, H. (2000). Working with Trauma: Utilizing Psychotherapy and Sandplay for Healing. Richmond Area Multi-Services Center, San Francisco, CA.
Marlo, H. (2000). Psychological Dynamics in the Complex Pain Patient: Conceptualization and Treatment. Stanford University Hospital and Clinics, Pain Management Center, Palo Alto, CA.
Marlo, H (1998). Retaining “eros” in erotic transference and countertransference: Integrating eroticism in clinical practice. Paper presented at the 18^th annual spring meeting of the Division of Psychoanalysis, American Psychological Association, Boston, MA.
Marlo, H. (1996). Utilizing a harm reduction approach in psychodynamic psychotherapy and case management of the dually diagnosed patient. Presented at the National Harm Reduction Conference, Oakland, CA.

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