The Red and Blue of Marriage Jul 13, 2015

by Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT,
stantatkin.com


A study by Harvard University researchers that looked at data for more than five million families, and that was recently featured in The New York Times, found that where you live in the United States greatly influences your chances of getting married. The ...

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Working Through Betrayal – Regret to Redemption Jun 09, 2015

by Eva Van Prooyen, M.F.T., PACT faculty, Los Angeles CA
www.evavp.com


When a betrayal has been discovered in their relationship, couples come to therapy feeling lost, disoriented, confused, and angry. They may even wonder if there is hope. Infidelity strips away happiness and threatens emotional ...

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Applying the Three PACT Domains arousal attachment for therapists mary ackerman neuroscience May 15, 2015

by Mary Ackerman, MIC, BASS (Cllg); CARE Counselling Hong Kong, PACT Level II practitioner
Website: carecounsellinghk.com

Philippe and Grace, who have been married for twelve years, are clients in my clinical practice in Hong Kong. He is French Swiss and works in finance, and she is Korean American ...

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Our Automatic Brain: Everything New Will Soon Be Old brain for couples neuroscience stan tatkin Apr 01, 2015

by Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT,
stantatkin.com

Our brains are remarkable organs. They take in and use massive amounts of information from inside and outside our bodies and allow us to go through about 90% of our day automatically. We can get from point A to point B while checking our emails, talking to o...

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King and Queen: Protecting the Couple Relationship for therapists rachel holland secure functioning Mar 14, 2015

by Rachel Holland, DClinPsych, PACT faculty, Buckinghamshire, UK
Email: [email protected]

One of the characteristics of secure functioning a PACT therapist communicates is that romantic couples, as the King and Queen of their domain, protect their relationship and each other in publ...

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Couples in Distress: Working With Bottom-up Interventions for therapist inga gentile interventions Feb 16, 2015

by Inga Gentile, MFT, PACT faculty, Bardu, Norway
Website: www.ingagentile.com
Email: [email protected]
“Nothing is more revealing than movement.” — Martha Graham

Despite our conscious narratives, which are formed in the brain’s left hemisphere, much of what we do is driven by fast-acting proc...

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The End: Take It Off the Table for couples jami faletti Jan 13, 2015

by Jami Faletti, M.F.T., PACT faculty, Los Angeles, CA
Website: jamifaletti.com
Email: [email protected]

Have you noticed the crazy number of articles, blogs, and quizzes circulating on social media right now asking you to question your relationship? Just look at your Facebook feed and you’ll...

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PACT and Love: Small Moves, Big Movement rachel cahn Dec 16, 2014

by Rachel Cahn, MA, LPC, PACT faculty, Boulder, CO
Website: www.rachelcahn.com
Email: [email protected]

Andrea and Brent (not their real names) have been married for twenty-three years, and have been struggling since their youngest son left for college. Now that their focus is no longer...

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The Secure Family Asana arousal attachment brain ideas lon rankin secure functioning Nov 04, 2014

by Lon Rankin, LPCC, PACT faculty, Santa Fe, NM
Website: LonRankin.com
Email: [email protected]

Every species of mammal uses the limbic system—the social, emotional, relational part of the brain—to create strong bonds that provide safety and a felt sense of security. Adult-child bonding is esp...

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Accelerating Development with PACT arousal attachment differentiation jeff pincus secure functioning Oct 10, 2014

by Jeff Pincus, LCSW, PACT faculty, Boulder, CO
Website: CouplesTherapyBoulder.com
Email: [email protected]

Emotional development doesn’t happen in isolation. The entire field of psychotherapy rests upon the premise that one human being can help another to move beyond vestigial strategies dev...

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Working Bottom Up in PACT arousal bottom-up interventions neuroscience secure functioning Sep 18, 2014

 

by Karen Berry, PhD, PACT faculty, New York, NY
Email:  [email protected]

Bottom-up interventions are the bread and butter of PACT. These interventions can be simple to execute, yet powerful in their effect. For example, the therapist can ask partners to face one another, with the therap...

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Power Couples…Activate! attachment for therapists maxims pact community pair bonding secure functioning Aug 13, 2014

by Eva Van Prooyen, M.F.T., PACT faculty, Los Angeles CA
Website:  Eva.VP.com
Email:  [email protected]

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 ...

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