Paula Judy Gorelkin

Paula Gorelkin, beloved wife of 58 years, mother, grandmother and great grandmother. She attended the High School of Performing Arts in Manhattan and studied piano with the renowned concert pianist, Nadia Reisenberg.

She was admitted, with advanced placement to Juilliard. Attending for a year she accompanied her parents to Holland from where she graduated, with honors, from the Amsterdam Conservatory of Music, studying with Jan Ode. In Amsterdam she also met and married another New Yorker, Leo, who was attending medical school there in 1964.

Returning to America she received a Master’s degree in Music-piano performance, studying with William Masselos.

Moving to Atlanta, GA, she formed, directed and was the pianist of a successful chamber music group for ten years, playing with the principal players of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Moving on to a new career, she received a Master’s degree in Psychology and became a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Mental Health Counselor.

She and her husband, Leo, practiced psychotherapy as a team, specializing in couples.

Also giving seminars and lectures, they wrote and published two books, sharing information on relationships and sexuality in the hopes of helping others to achieve greater happiness and closeness in their relationships and marriages.

MY PAULA

It was the morning of my life that saw the sun eclipsed - become too dark to see, too cold to feel.

Listen!

Sunrise, and the light dispels the darkness.

She still sleeps - so soft, so warm and sweet - my love, my wife, my life.

Leo Gorelkin