By Jason Brand, LCSW
PACT Certified Therapist

On my podcast Human Nurture, I set out to take a three-season deep dive into PACT and explore the questions that most perplexed me about the model and about couple therapy. I started at the foundation and worked my way up. Season 1 explored the theoretic...

By Eva Van Prooyen, MFT
PACT Certified Therapist

Healthy, secure relationships are a source of vital energy. PACT therapists know people feel good when they understand how to be successful partners. We are energized by a secure connection to another person. Our need to be securely attached is so pow...

Catherine Seidel, LMFT
PACT Level 3 Therapist

I recently attended a daylong symposium at the UC Davis Vet School on the essentials of equine medicine. Among various topics, the most compelling to me as a horse person and a psychotherapist interested in the neurobiology of attachment was a lecture an...

Last year, PACT faculty member Krista Jordan, PhD, and PACT developer Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT, offered a workshop on evidence-based assessment instruments for couple therapists. 

In the workshop, Krista and Stan talked about how to integrate brief questionnaires to stimulate conversations, set goals...

By Stan Tatkin, PsyD, LMFT

How do we treat couples, irrespective of their ideologies? The topic here is couple therapist countertransference, my own and perhaps that of my colleagues, recognizing that our professional community holds varied perspectives on the omnipresent cultural divide.  How do w...

Betrayal is one of the biggest threats to a couple relationship. When one partner betrays the other, they violate the trust and confidence that exists between them. The safety and security of the relationship is r...

By Tracey Boldemann-Tatkin, PhD, AMFT
PACT Institute Co-founder

I was inspired to write this blog after sitting around the Thanksgiving table with my family and sharing what we are thankful for. We do this each year, yet this year I started to reflect on my gratitude for being part of the overall PA...

We are delighted to announce that Dr. Hans Stahlschmidt has been named Dean of Students and Faculty for the PACT Institute, a position that has been newly created to better serve the needs of our students and our growing faculty. 

Hans has been part of the PACT Institute almost since its beginning....

PACT instructors are extraordinary clinicians and teachers. Each one brings profound insight, expertise in working with couples, and a passion for mentoring other therapists. 

PACT developer Stan Tatkin says, “We are so thrilled to have these phenomenal PACT clinicians team teaching Level 1 next ye...

by Caroline Russell Smith, LCSW, PACT Level 2 and
Karen Berry, PhD, PACT Certified Therapist

It is amazing how much can go wrong in the first 30 seconds of a sexual encounter! When couples come into my office to address differences in sexual desire, I reassure them that these differences are normal ...

By Beverly Baker, MBA
PACT Institute Executive Director

Are you curious about what goes on behind the scenes? About how events are produced or what goes into an art exhibition? As a logistics nerd, I am just as fascinated by the process as the result. Any event I attend, from art galleries to sporti...

In the fall of 2009, several fellow clinician colleagues of Patricia Hart, PhD, and Hans Stahlschmidt, PhD, told them that they were “very excited about this interesting guy” who had a new model of couple therapy, and they invited Hans and Patricia to hear him speak.

So when Stan Tatkin came to Ber...