Online sessions are available only for the 2-hour follow-up sessions for couples who have completed the Couple's Retreat. All other couples' work takes place in person.
Yael Bat-Shimon is a Certified Imago Relationship Therapist and Advanced Imago Clinician who works exclusively with committed couples who are ready to devote their full attention and magnificence to transforming their relationship. In Imago Relationship Therapy with Yael, couples experience an effective, original approach for healing both from recent wounds and from old wounds imported into the relationship from childhood. Her work with couples integrates ancient wisdom and cutting-edge neuroscience into a cohesive and holistic model of relational healing.
Yael guides couples to look underneath the current distress and conflict in their relationship to the unconscious forces that are driving it. Guided by the assumption that couples already have between them everything they need, Yael works with couples to release the energy and resources locked in their emotional conflicts, putting them in direct opposition to each other, and helps them shift their interactions so that they become each other’s allies and champions, celebrating each other’s differences and consciously affirming each other’s equal validity. Partners then become teammates, navigating their lives together, side by side, opening up new possibilities and opportunities between them, as well as in their relationships with their children, families, co-workers and communities.
Imago is a strength-based relationship therapy that offers couples the autonomy and freedom to create the relationship of their dreams and provides a map forward to exist in a safe, healthy, peaceful partnership where both partners can express their true selves, experience intimacy, vulnerability, connection and liberation from past stress, trauma and pain.
Couples find in Yael a person with extensive training and experience in couples work as well as an enthusiastic champion for their relationship. Her genuine warmth and passion for transformational growth and healing through relationships are infectious and inspire hope and change in the couples who work with her.
Couples counseling - Effectively and efficiently helping couples integrate and embody the relational shifts they need to create lasting change in their lives
Premarital counseling - Assisting new couples to create a solid foundation for a lifetime of vibrant love by teaching them effective communication and conflict dissolution skills while also envisioning and clarifying their wildest dreams for their marriage
Relationship issues - Helping couples learn to understand each other’s feelings and “childhood wounds” with empathy, allowing them to heal themselves and their relationship so they can move toward a more fulfilling, conscious partnership
Communication issues - Teaching couples the Imago Dialogue, a structured process to facilitate safe conversations and a powerful communication tool for transformation in all areas of life
Yael Bat-Shimon is not in-network with any insurances.
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This provider can support you in getting reimbursement from your insurance company if you are seeking out-of-network reimbursement. Here are the out-of-network billing options they provide:
Frequency of sessions this provider offers to see clients once you are an established client.
Years of Experience: 10 years
Imago Relationships Providence, co-founder, 2013 - Present
Interracial Relationships Collaborative, co-founder, 2017 - Present
Yael & Paula, LLC, co-founder, 2015 - Present
Yael Bat-Shimon, LMHC, Imago therapist, 2015 - Present
Imago International Training Institute, Advanced Imago Clinician, 2022
Imago International Training Institute, Certified Imago Therapist, 2017
Antioch University New England, Master's in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, 2013
Hebrew College, Master's in Jewish Studies, 2005
Harvard College, Bachelor's in Post-Modern French Literature, 1991
Rhode Island: MHC00728
Massachusetts: 11720
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