Esther Perel

Esther Perel is a therapist who became well-known in 2006 after the publication of her best-selling book Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence. Perel has two bachelor’s degrees, in educational psychology and French linguistics and literature, from Hebrew University in Jerusalem and has earned an advanced degree at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She was trained in family therapy by Dr. Salvador Minuchin in the late eighties and now travels the globe to speak at international conferences. She maintains a private psychotherapy practice in New York City.