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About Kate & Joel Feldman ... | |
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We believe the future of humanity depends upon people skillfully and consciously loving and caring for each other. The mission of our work is to end interpersonal and relational wounding, which is passed down through families, communities, nations, and our global family. Specifically, our approaches include:
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Over thirty years, using
a variety of couples counseling methods, we have helped couples address
marriage problems such as affairs, poor communication,
family and parenting issues, and the decision of whether to seek divorce
help.
We have also developed an intensive pre-marriage counseling curriculum which helps new couples prevent marriage problems by learning relationship skills, and understanding themselves at a deep level, so their marriage is based on true intimacy and bonding. |
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We have been helping couples with their marriage problems, and supporting singles, groups, and couples create satisfying relationships for over thirty years. During the nineteen seventies, eighties and nineties we were founding members of Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, which eventually became the largest residential yoga and wellness center on the east coast. During our working partnership as friends, and finally as married partners, we created a popular weekend couples retreat, our own brand of couples counseling, a curriculum for pre-marriage counseling, and a 4-day private marriage counseling retreat. Our approach to couples therapy includes:
We are non-sectarian in our approach, but informed by our spiritual lives, as well as personal therapies, and working through our own marriage problems. Even though we have lots of training, degrees and clinical experience, we are still a growing couple. Our relationship work is based on our personal experimentation and practice throughout a 35-year friendship, and 25-year marriage. We promise you a safe, opening and transformative experience in which to learn and practice the relational skills we share with you. We also promise that in our work together we will show up authentically and honestly as real people working on our own marriage problems. |
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Kate H. Feldman, MSW, LCSW Kate is a wise, compassionate psychotherapist who specializes in individual and couples therapy. Before receiving her Masters of Social work from Smith College School for Social Work, she held various executive, as well as teaching positions at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. In 1994 she and her husband Joel founded The Conscious Relationships Institute™. This educational institute provides the Feldman's well known Couples Retreat held in several program centers around the country, their specialized marriage counseling retreats, and counseling for individuals, couples, and families. Over the last thirty years, Kate and Joel have developed an uplifting weekend couples retreat for intimate partners. These programs, which have several different titles, are offered at Kripalu Center, Omega Institute, Shambhala Mountain Center, and in the southwest United States. Additionally, Kate has created and led other workshops and trainings on relationships, personal growth, yoga, holistic health, leadership, and counseling. Her current specialty is supporting both individual men and women, as well as couples, find deep contentment, security, bonding and satisfaction in their intimate relationships. Kate's clients have worked through relationship and marriage problems such as affairs, leaving an unhealthy relationship, becoming more alive as individuals in a good partnership, improving sex, deepening communication, understanding and healing one person's past trauma. Kate’Äôs certification and training includes:
Joel Feldman, CPCC Joel is a caring and highly insightful coach, mediator, and therapist, now specializing in couples counseling and relationship coaching. His experience includes successful relationship work with couples, businesses, and organizations. Over the course of his career, he has also trained professionals in numerous modalities including holistic counseling and coaching, mediation, conflict resolution, and stress management. Before founding the Conscious Relationships Institute, with Kate, Joel held several management as well as executive positions at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. He was a founding member of that organization in the seventies and facilitator of many of its well known seminars and training programs. Nowadays Joel specializes in couples therapy and relationship coaching both in private practice and working with Kate, to present their popular Couples Retreat, and to facilitate their, now well known, four-day private marriage counseling retreat with one couple at a time. He has a humorous, no-nonsense approach to even the most difficult marriage problems. People say of Joel, that he is not afraid of conflict, not afraid of even the most difficult relationship problems: affairs, the question of whether to go for divorce help, step parenting relationship problems, addiction, low-sex marriage, in-laws, money. You name it; he will meet you with compassionate good sense, non-judgment, excellent advice, and lightness thrown in so you aren't weighed down by too much seriousness. Joel is a co-founder of the Conscious Relationships Institute, which delivers individual relationship coaching, couples counseling as well as marriage weekend retreats. He specializes in conflict resolution, and has a compassionate approach to understanding and respecting our human differences. His current passion is coaching individuals and couples to get "out of the box" and live as fully and creatively as they possibly can. Joel's certification and training includes:
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