Kathryn Ford M.D.

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Kathryn Ford, M.D., is a psychiatrist, couples therapist, and author. Her work is a unique integration of mindfulness, psychotherapy, and neuroscience. She teaches Couples to connect by emphasizing in-the-moment awareness of openness, something she calls Aperture Awareness.

Dr. Ford received her M.D. degree from Brown School of Medicine and completed a residency in psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine. Her meditation practice and studies at centers like Barre Center for Buddhist Studies in Massachusetts and Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California developed her understanding of the power of mindfulness for building deeper, more resilient relationships.

Originally from Texas, she raised her family and developed her work in the San Francisco Bay Area. She and her husband, Peter Finkelstein, now spend time in the Bay Area, rural Rhode Island, and Orcas Island, WA. They have three grown children.

Dr. Ford is available for speaking and teaching engagements and offers private consultation for couples and therapists. Her new book, The Aperture Effect, offers couples and therapists the wisdom and tools of present moment aperture awareness for transforming relationships.

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When your relationship is falling apart, don’t just do something! Admitting you don’t know what to do can be the beginning instead of the end.

When your relationship is falling apart, don’t just do something! Admitting you don’t know what to do can be the beginning instead of the end.

Different Realities? Tired of Fighting?

The next time you're plunged into the pain of different realities, step back from the certainty that you are right and that your partner is wrong. What if you’re both right?

The next time you're plunged into the pain of different realities, step back from the certainty that you are right and that your partner is wrong. What if you’re both right?

Should You Accept a Partner as Is or Ask Them to Change?

Think it’s not your job to teach your partner how to love you better? Think again. You might get the relationship you're longing for.

Think it’s not your job to teach your partner how to love you better? Think again. You might get the relationship you're longing for.

Can You and Your Partner Read Each Other’s Minds?

Being tuned in to your lover is your exciting superpower for intimacy. Here’s how to get even better at it.

Being tuned in to your lover is your exciting superpower for intimacy. Here’s how to get even better at it.

How to Talk to Be (Really!) Heard

We can learn to talk in ways that help others to hear us. To be heard more, and hurt less, take off the armor and tune in.

We can learn to talk in ways that help others to hear us. To be heard more, and hurt less, take off the armor and tune in.

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