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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Excerpted from the second edition of Wired for Love
By Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT
PACT Developer
Who are we as relationship partners? How do we move toward and away from (literally and figuratively) those we depend on? It always amazes me that couples can be together for fifteen, twenty, even...
By Allison Howe, LMHC
PACT Certified Clinician, PACT Faculty
Couples come to our office in distress. They want to feel better. For me, PACT therapy provides medicine for the couple. PACT is an approach designed to alleviate the symptoms that come from an insecure, unfair, insensitive relationship...
By Joy A. Dryer, PhD
PACT Certified Clinician, PACT Faculty
“And I’m not your mother!”
“No. You’re much sexier.” Eddie reaches for Eve’s hand. She pulls it back.
Eve shakes her brown curls ‘no’ and gazes past him at the floor. “Your...
By Daniel Scrafford
PACT Level 3 Therapist
In my early professional years, I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
— Carl...
Dear PACT Community,
Happy 2024! As we enter the new year, I’m excited to take this opportunity to look back and reflect on what the PACT Institute has accomplished and to let you know about this year’s plans for continuous growth and improvement – ours and yours!
Looking Back:...
By Angela Aiello, Ph.D. LMFT
PACT Level 2 Therapist
It’s cliché, but it was really turning into the vacation from hell:
“Oh, for f***’s sake, you’re not maneuvering in the right direction.”
“Me? It’s you! You’re the one who steered us into the...
