Offices in Walnut Creek and Pinole
Voicemail: 510-986-9836
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Managing Power & Vulnerability in Intimate Relationships
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Often, despite best intentions, efforts, and promises, intimate relationships fall into a pattern of disappointments, tension, hostility, and even sometimes physical altercations.
These professionally lead groups are designed to help people who are aware (or whose partners are telling them) that they are:
• Constantly Criticizing and/or Irritable
• Aggressive and Intimidating
• Angry, Controlling, and/or Abusive
Power comes in many forms, including physical, emotional, financial, and social. These groups explore how we hold, use, and sometimes give away or abuse our own power in intimate relationships. While misusing power comes almost naturally, doing so causes mistrust, resentment, distance, dissatisfaction, and mutual suffering.
Related topics addressed in these groups include:
• Anger Management
• Communication and Relationship Skills
• Boundaries
• Gender Assumptions and Expectations
• Family and Systemic Pressures and Strategies, from parenting to the impact of discrimination are addressed as well.
Aaron J. Feldman, LMFT’s approach is practical and direct yet compassionate and tailored to the personal experiences and specific needs of group members. Safety and empowerment are primary and ongoing objectives.
Mr. Feldman has extensive training and experience running groups for both men and for women around issues of high conflict relationships. He teaches Spousal/Partner Abuse courses for the JFK Graduate and CEU departments, and he has taught and trained on this and other topics at numerous other training institutions, agencies, and organizations.
Women’s Group: 4-5:30 on Mondays in Walnut Creek
Men’s Groups: 6-7:30 on Mondays in Walnut Creek and 5:30-7 on Tuesdays in Pinole
Cost: $35/session
Requirements & Recommendations for Attendance
One $50/45-minute intake session to be arranged at the convenience of the client and the therapist is required prior to attending the group. Clients should plan on attending weekly, and a minimum of 4-month commitment is strongly encouraged in order to benefit meaningfully and to retain gains made in the process.
Contact Mr Feldman
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Aaron J. Feldman, LMFT is a licensed Marriage & Family Therapist offering individual and couples counseling & psychotherapy. His offices are in Walnut Creek and Pinole, easily accessible to Antioch, Bay Point, Benecia, Clayton, Concord, Crockett, Danville, El Cerrito, Hercules, Lafayette, Martinez, Orinda, Pittsburg, Pleasant Hill, Point Richmond, Richmond, Rodeo, San Pablo, and San Ramon. He specialized in working with clients on anger management, high conflict and abusive relationships (including domestic violence), communication, intimacy, and other significant personal and relationship problems.
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