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Kim Feingold, Ph.D.

Keynote speaker, workshop facilitator, consultant, media expert

Dr. Feingold is a keynote speaker, workshop facilitator, panel moderator, podcast guest, and media expert. She is a dynamic speaker, known for bringing research to life with her use of real-life examples, clear messaging, and practical take-home tools.  Audiences appreciate her warmth, humor, insight, and relatability. 

Heart Psychologist audiences have ranged from corporate employees, C-suite executives, cardiac patients, family members, healthcare providers, women with heart disease, and students of all ages. She has been a media expert for various news outlets including Good Morning America, CNN, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, WebMD and a variety of magazine publications. 

Lectures and workshops can accommodate various settings, from an intimate beach retreat to a large auditorium. While Dr. Feingold prefers in-person experiences, she also offers virual and pre-recordered opportunities.  

 

Areas of Expertise Include:

  • Cardiac and emotional wellness
  • Stress and health
  • Managing stress
  • The mind-body connection
  • Optimism and health
  • Cultivating resilience and post traumatic growth
  • Happiness, optimism and well-being
  • The intersection between mood, stress and heart disease
  • Anxiety, fear, and heart health
  • Depression and heart disease
  • Emotional implications of heart disease
  • Cultivating a healthy lifestyle
  • Preparing for surgery, recovering from surgery, or coping with heart disease
  • Caring for the whole patient
  • Empowering providers and patients to have difficult conversations
  • Understanding and supporting the patient’s emotional experience
 

Examples of Past Lectures and Workshops:

  • The psychosocial impact of heart disease (American College of Cardiology)
  • Cultivating resilience after heart surgery (The Marfan Foundation)
  • Reducing stress for heart health (Go Red for Women)
  • Managing emotions with an ICD (Chicagoland Cardiac Connections)
  • The Blue truth: What you didn’t know about depression and heart disease (Northwestern Medicine)
  • Psychological implications of heart disease (Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association)
  • Undress the stress: Strategies to boost wellness (Regent Surgical)
  • Women and heart disease: The mind-body connection (WomenHeart)
  • Mood-boosting strategies that cultivate wellness (Jewish Federation of Cleveland)
  • Resilience in patients with heart failure: A psychological protective factor (medical conference)
  • Body and soul: Taking care of YOU (Professional Women’s Club of Chicago)
  • Managing anxiety with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Association)
  • Optimism and health: How happiness extends beyond our mood (Mended Hearts)
  • Cardiac Behavioral Medicine: Bridging medicine and the psychology of the patient (academic medical center)

 

Popular workshops:

  • Stressbusters for heart health
  • Taming the anxious heart
  • Women boosting wellness
  • The 3-2-1 approach to happiness and health
  • Play more to stress less: The magic of optimism and improv 
  • Navigating your heart journey
  • Channel your inner palm tree: Cultivating resilience
  • The power of Thought in happiness and health

 

 

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