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Esther
Perel is a licensed marriage and family therapist who has spent
half her life treating patients and the other half coaching, consulting
and training for organizations and lay and professional audiences.
An acknowledged authority on cultural identity, cross cultural relations
and ethnic and religious intermarriage, she has led private and
public interventions around the world. For nearly a quarter of a
century, her expertise in wartime, post-war and refugee families
has been sought after by victims of conflict as well as by therapists
and crisis counselors in training.
Ms. Perel has a private psychotherapy practice in New York, with
multilingual clients. She is fluent in eight languages. Her clinical
teaching and interests center on culture and sexuality with a focus
on couples.
A frequently referenced author, Ms. Perel’s book, Mating
in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic was published
last fall. Her 2002 essay, “Erotic Intelligence: Reconciling
Sensuality and Domesticity,” was featured on the front cover
of the Utne Reader and was included in the anthology, Best
Erotic Writings 2004. She has written numerous articles and
chapters about intermarriage, the families of Holocaust survivors,
cross-cultural couples and cultural and religious identity.
Ms. Perel’s innovative strategies and models for leadership
have won her an international clientele of non-profit organizations,
foundations, schools, community groups and corporations, including:
New York University Medical Center; Hebrew University in Jerusalem;
Psycho-social Center for Refugees at the University of Oslo, Norway;
The Soros Foundation’s Open Society Institute; The Wexner
Foundation; The 92nd street Y, The Skirball Center and United Jewish
Communities.
A frequent keynoter, she regularly addresses the therapeutic and
lay community at conferences, cross-cultural forums and workshops.
In New York Ms. Perel hosts the Downtown Salon, a capacity crowd
forum on zeitgeist issues that grew out of the Ideas Cafe she launched
at the Skirball Center in 2003.
Born and raised in Belgium, Ms. Perel holds degrees from the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem and Lesley College. She was trained and
supervised in family therapy by Dr. Salvador Minuchin and serves
on the faculties of the Department of Psychiatry, New York University
Medical School, the International Trauma Studies Program, Mailman
School of Public Health. at Columbia University.
She is a member of the American Family therapy Academy and of the
Society for sex Therapy and Research.
A popular media commentator, Ms. Perel has been interviewed in leading
publications such as The Washington Post, Tikkun, New York Magazine,
The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Observer, Vogue, Self,
Salon.com, Health Parent and Working Woman, and has
appeared on television programs including the Oprah Winfrey
Show, The Today Show, CBC News, Good Day New York , CNN This Morning,
Women Aloud and CBS This Morning. She has also been
a guest on popular radio shows such as The Brian Lehrer Show,
Jim Richards, and the Dan Gresham Show.
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