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Monday 3pm - 8pm Tuesday 10am - 5pm 6pm - 8pm Wednesday 9am - 8pm Thursday 9am - 6pm Friday 9am - 5pm Saturday 10am - 6pm

Yael & Paula

Yael & Paula are Interracial Relationship Builders who offer therapy, coaching, workshops and private intensive sessions.

Yael & Paula are a married interracial couple who have been helping interracial couples for almost two decades to communicate about race and white privilege in a way that helps them to disrupt negative patterns and cycles and see each other beyond their fears, cultural conditioning, stereotypes and projections, helping them heal racial trauma together. We do this using a cutting-edge methodology based in Imago relationship therapy, attachment theory and our own hard-won experience navigating these issues in our own relationship. We offer weekend workshops and private intensives.

10/26/2025

A 20-year love story of healing, growth, and connection through Imago Relationship Therapy—love as resistance in a racially and politically divided world.

08/10/2025

Beginning September 3, 2025

Jul292025WomenWhat if the woman you’re meant to become is just waiting for the right room to step into? The Awakening It’s 2 AM, and you’re lying awake again. Your mind racing through tomorrow’s to-do list, you’re scrolling through social media, next month’s goals, and that persistent wh...

06/21/2025

Happy Providence PRIDE on this beautiful day. 🌹🌹

06/04/2025

"We are all one—and if we don't know it, we will learn it the hard way." Bayard Rustin

02/22/2025

"We’ve been reflecting on how to support conscious couples to have healthier conversations about highly charged topics like racism and white-privilege, whether you agree, disagree, or agree to disagree with one another. With healthier and more conscious conversations, you can make better decisions as a team about the actions you take on certain issues too."

Read more here:
https://yaelandpaula.com/2025/02/22/the-personal-is-still-political/

01/17/2025

Transform Your Relationship This Valentine's Weekend! 💝
Skip the chocolates and give your relationship the gift of deeper connection at our Valentine's Weekend "Getting the Love You Want" Couples Workshop (Feb 15-16). Learn the art of conscious communication, rediscover each other, and fall in love all over again in our safe, private setting. No public sharing required - just you and your partner growing together.
🎥 Watch our video for details.

01/08/2025

When we still our minds and really hear something new from each other, we may find an echo within ourselves that resonates with a new way of being in the world. It takes an act of will and enormous courage to be fully present to ourselves and to the Other. John Bradshaw says, “When we are present, we are not fabricating inner movies, (making up s**t about folks believing it’s true). We are seeing what is before us.”

For full blog, click here:
https://yaelandpaula.com/2025/01/08/re-evaluating-old-stories-transforming-ourselves-transforming-our-relationships/

01/03/2025

Our experience, both personal and professional, has shown that relationship skills are best learned outside the therapy room, in an engaging workshop environment. This is where the Imago couples workshop “Getting the Love You Want” comes in – offering couples a remarkable six-month quantum leap in relationship competency.

https://yaelandpaula.com/2025/01/02/give-the-gift-of-a-thriving-relationship-this-new-year/

12/25/2024

12/24/2024

As winter's darkness deepens, our holiday rituals offer both comfort and challenge. What meaning can we find in this sacred season of change?

https://yaelandpaula.com/2024/12/24/sacred-stillness-winters-invitation-to-transform/

12/11/2024

"Pure curiosity assumes everyone has something valuable to share, that there are rich narratives hidden by our judgments. A single genuine question can reveal entire worlds of experience we might have missed in our certainty. What started as an argument about recycling bins became a profound journey into the lived experience of navigating race, perception, and survival in a predominantly white space."

https://yaelandpaula.com/2024/12/11/im-curious-two-words-that-open-worlds/

11/28/2024

"May we all find ways to tend our hearts and our truth in these divided times, knowing that somewhere between conviction and compassion lies the path forward."

https://yaelandpaula.com/2024/11/28/the-elections-long-table-when-political-divides-cut-through-family-ties/

Address

1005 Main Street, Suite 1208
Pawtucket, RI
02860

Opening Hours

Monday	3pm - 8pm
Tuesday	10am - 5pm
	6pm - 8pm
Wednesday	9am - 8pm
Thursday	9am - 6pm
Friday	9am - 5pm
Saturday	10am - 6pm

Telephone

+14016038694

Website

http://www.yaelandpaula.com/

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Yael Bat-Shimon, LMHC, Certified Imago Therapist & Dr. Paula Smith, Advanced Imago Clinician and Workshop Presenter are a married couple specializing in helping LGBTQ couples create safe, healing, non-binary, love-filled partnerships in deeply perceptive, precise and appropriately playful ways. We live in a culture that tells us that marriage and intimate relationships should come naturally. We believe this leads many LGBTQ couples to terminate their relationships unnecessarily. Yael and Paula recognize how misleading this myth is for couples seeking viable tools to create long-lasting marriages and committed partnerships. It is crucial for LGBTQ couples to understand that their principle function is to help keep each other safe; otherwise, the meaning of their partnership is trivialized and this lessens the likelihood of creating a strong, interdependent relationship. For over a decade, Yael and Paula have been teaching LGBTQ couples how to understand each other deeply and accurately, using a positive, strength-based, psychobiological, relational methodology-Imago relationship therapy. They bring to this work their combined 40+ years of experience in 12-step recovery as well as their experience as an in*******al, interfaith couple. Black and white, Jewish and pluralist, Yael and Paula draw on their own deeply meaningful, often painful journey towards embracing and celebrating each other’s differences to help couples do the same. Rather than bore you with advice and insights or tell you what to avoid in your intimate relationships, Yael and Paula help you think about and experience relationships in a whole new way, where you are empowered to value differences, deepen intimacy, discover purpose and pass on a legacy of respectful relating to your children.