Dr. Mary J Malek, Owner of Healing Space LLC
Empowering Minds, Healing Hearts: Your Path to Inner Strength and Resilience
I am glad that you found me in your search for support and guidance. I am a clinical psychologist specializing in helping individuals break free from unresolved traumatic experiences and repetitive patterns of behavior. There are times when we find ourselves struggling but not moving forward. You may have even heard someone tell you to “get over it.” It is often difficult to admit that we can’t do it alone. My goal at Healing Space is to offer effective and compassionate treatment that helps individuals better cope with the challenges of life, transform relationships, achieve personal goals, and gain a sense of hope for the future. Whether or not you ever pick up the phone to call me, always remember this – we were designed to live an abundant life. This requires the giving as well as the acceptance of help.
“I have blended several areas of expertise to develop a whole-person approach, rooted in somatic techniques, to help individuals find a transformational path of hope.”
My career began through seeking healing from lifelong chronic, often debilitating, pain and autoimmune disease. My experiences with medical professionals inspired me to find a way to teach physicians to have a greater capacity to approach patients with deeper empathy and understanding. That is in short, I wanted them to develop a better, kinder bedside manner. I will never forget being laughed at during my graduate school interview by a professor, a former dentist, when I told him my dream. Well, I got the last laugh. Early in my graduate training I realized this aspiration and began teaching medical students, residents, and physicians at a local medical school and continue there as an adjunct clinical faculty member. I then completed my training in clinical health psychology and was licensed as a psychologist. I worked at the same time with individuals and groups in hospitals and private practice - helping many clients find hope in coping with chronic illnesses, traumatic injuries, debilitating health conditions, and traumatizing medical procedures and care. Since then, my scope has widened, and I have blended several areas of expertise to develop a whole-person approach, rooted in somatic techniques, to help individuals find a transformational path of hope. I have been specifically trained in Eye-Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR), Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, and Somatic Experiencing.