Dr. Gwen Finestone Hecht
I retired, as of 7/25/2020.
I placed my license is on inactive status, which does not allow me to treat patients or evaluate clients.
My expertise
My expertise is in understanding the experience of loss, whether due to trauma, violence, accident or grief, and its meaning to the person who is suffering the loss. My special gift is being able to articulate clearly, concisely, and in layperson's words, what I know to a judge and jury. As an EXPERT, I work with attorneys to assist with: Education, Case Evaluation, Case Development Comprehensive Narrative Reports, Depositions, and Trial Work.
WHY IS LOSS SO POWERFUL AND POTENTIALLY CRIPPLING?
Because loss has meaning.
The meaning of an experience, the meaning of the loss, differs for each person.
It is the meaning of the loss that can change an individual’s personality, world view, and life path.
Truth be told, what constitutes a deep narcissistic wound for one person (a piercing wound that erodes one’s identity and sense of Self), may be barely a scratch to another.
We suffer losses when we:
- Divorce
- Lose a valued job
- Move to a new neighborhood or school
- Amputate a limb
- Deploy to a combat zone
- Suffer a life-altering physical injury
- Have an unwanted hysterectomy
- Survive a traumatic experience
- Endure rape
- Bear years of incest
- Have an abortion
- Suffer a miscarriage
- Place a child for adoption
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
PROFESSIONAL AFFFILIATIONS
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Founder and Executive Director,
The House of Ruach
Co-Founder and Executive Director
Long Beach Rape Crisis Center
Foster child and family therapist
Psychiatric therapist
Hospice therapist
Hospice interfaith chaplain
SPECIALIZING IN
PROFESSIONAL AFFFILIATIONS
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Grief/ Bereavement
(including death of a child, teen or adult; military and combat)
Loss Issues
(including amputation, maiming, pregnancy loss, military rape, abuse, etc.)
Victims of Violence
(including murder, rape, trauma, suicide, witnessing acts of violence)
