Family Law
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• Custody Evaluations
• Parenting Consultation
• Dependency Issues
• Battered Woman Syndrome
• Parental Alienation
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• Competency to Proceed
• Waiver of Rights
• Sentencing Issues
• Violence Risk
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• Neuropsychological
Assessment
• Trauma Evaluation
• Issues Related to Injury
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• Court Appointed Member of
County Examining Committee
• Capacity Evaluations
• Undue Influence Examinations
Diagnosis
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• Psycho-Educational Evaluations for Learning Disabilities
• Memory Problems
• Personality Disorders
• Consults to Psychiatrists, Attorneys, and Schools
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• Individual Therapy
• Couples Therapy
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Dr. Heller's monthly articles in South Florida's #1 publication for women Her Life Magazine
About Dr. Heller
Appointed by County Medical Administrator to meet refugees from New Orleans in an effort to evaluate, treat, and place adults and children who have been traumatized from Hurricane Katrina, September 2005. Addressed issues of trauma, dementia, suicide, and mental retardation. Received award from the Red Cross.
Member of Florida Bar Grievance Committee 15-D since 2001.
Member of Student Advisory Committee Del Prado School, Boca Raton, Florida – 2000-2009.
Member of Together Against Gangs – Consortium of community leaders to address the factors related to gang violence.
Consultant to Mental Health Alliance.
In the News
Publications
• Brodsky, S.L., Heller, P., "Addressing
the Perfect Phantom on the Witness
Stand," Journal American Academy of
Psychiatry and the Law, 36:541-3, 2008
• Lucas, L. Gangland, Boca Magazine,
29-119-123, February 2008
(Contributor).
• Lichtenstein, J., "The Mind of Madoff,"
Palm Beach, The Island, 68-70 Winter
2009 (Contributor).
Presentations
• The History of Mental Illness
From the Trenches
• Minors and Murder – The Issues
Surrounding Nathaniel Brazill
• Violence and Murder – Podcast for The
Experts Speak, Library of Florida
Psychiatric Society
• Video for Public T.V.
Respect – Gang Behavior
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Education
B.A. Psychology/Biology
MS.Ed. Counseling
Professional Diploma Child Psychology
Psy.D. Clinical Psychology
Internship University of Miami
School of Medicine
Residency Under President of American Psychological Association
The Legislation
Assisted in the initiation and passage of State Law 904 (Passed October 2009) pertaining to Domestic Violence and Sexual Molestation in issues of Child Custody.
Sponsor: State Senator Ted Deutch
My Passion: Minors and Murder – The Issues Surrounding Nathaniel Brazill
