About Marlene M. Maheu, Ph.D.

Dr. Marlene Maheu is San Diego psychologist specializing in behavior change, positive psychology, and coaching. She works with relationship problems, grief and bereavement, and chronic pain. She is a drug and alcohol, food addiction specialist as well as a tobacco and nicotine expert. She has also earned several grants to help develop programs to motivate smokers for change. She prefers to work with a mix of individuals, groups, couples, and families.

Dr. Maheu is also a media psychologist with a variety of Internet-based projects. For instance she is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of SelfhelpMagazine, an award-winning Internet, consumer-oriented magazine, where she leads a staff of over 75 volunteer professionals who create web based information for consumers to access 24/7.

She has received numerous awards for her creative work, ranging from the California Psychological Association to various online groups. She's also been a leader among her colleagues and been appointed to a number of state and national psychological and counseling association committees and task forces, including a three-year appointed term to the American Psychological Association's prestigious COPPS committee, which is concerned with ethics in new and evolving areas of practice.

She routinely lectures on various topics related to motivation and how to evaluate and develop programs for people who need specialized help in mobilizing their internal motivation to change.

She's been a private practice for over 30 years. She's earned her undergraduate degree, Summa Cum Laude, from the University of Hartford, and earned her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the California School of Psychology, also known as Alliant University.

She is now developing systems to help her colleagues learn to use videoconferencing tools to work with patients who cannot come into a psychotherapy office.