PACT Level 2
PACT Note to Parents: For guided practice and more skills to bring to your partnership, register for Kara’s Win-Win Parenting: Better Partners Make Better Parents, a new PACT workshop for couples, Saturdays online, April 23–May 21.Â
When I read articles such as...
By Aurisha Smolarski, MA, LMFTÂ
PACT Level 2 Therapist
www.aurishasmolarski.com
 No one said parenting was easy, let alone co-parenting with an ex.
Learning how to co-parent is complicated. It’s a partnership full of emotional undertones and adjustments. Being divorced or separated and having ...
Jason Brand, LCSW
PACT Level II
Berkeley, CA
www.jasonbrand.com
Video games used to have joysticks—simple black boxes with a red trigger button and a stick for movement. Today they have controllers that are multi-buttoned, provide sensory feedback, and obey spoken commands. In many families, I see a l...
Sara Slater, MSW, LICSW
Seattle, WA
PACT Level III candidate
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Apparently the pregnant couple in my office didn’t want to talk about preparing for baby at all. Instead, in the first minutes of their first session, Meg launched into her frustrations about their house an...
by Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT,
stantatkin.com
One of my mentors, Marion Solomon, introduced me to the brilliant idea of mentor couples. Also known as marriage mentors and sponsor couples, this concept originated in the church setting but is becoming increasingly popular. Basically, a mentor couple is on...
