Essential Partners
Kathy Eckles, M.A., is the founder of Kathy Eckles & Co., LLC, where since June 1999, holistic psychotherapy and coaching services have been offered, utilizing the Life Centered Therapy framework to address root causes of challenges for adults. In addition, Kathy serves as a Coach and Facilitator at the Asian Leadership Institute Consultancy, focusing on the development of high-performing teams and emerging leaders through a global network of consultants. As an Associate with Essential Partners since September 2016, emphasis is placed on fostering resilience and trust within various organizations and communities worldwide. Previous experience includes teaching Ethics in Business and Organizational Behavior at Lasell College and holding an executive role as Divisional Vice President of Merchandising with May Department Stores, overseeing significant operations and budgets in retail. Kathy Eckles holds a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute and a Bachelor of Arts from Bowling Green State University.
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Essential Partners
Founded in 1989, Essential Partners helps people build relationships across differences to address their communities’ most pressing challenges. EP’s proven approach helps people live and work better together. Through richer, healthier, more inclusive dialogue, people strengthen relationships while gaining new insight into themselves and each other as well as the problems they face together. The strength of relationships rooted in trust and mutual understanding empowers people to address the most pressing challenges—from partisan polarization and political dysfunction to interfaith conflicts and abortion access—without compromising their deepest values or identities.