Parenting During a Pandemic and Other Tough Times for couples parenting parents Mar 15, 2022

 Kara Hoppe, MA, MFT

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. 


When I...

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Kids Need Parents to Put Their Couple Relationship First kara hoppe parents secure functioning May 19, 2021

Kara Hoppe, MA, LMFT

PACT Level 2 Therapist


The best piece of parenting advice I ever heard had nothing to do with sleep, solid foods, or baby wearing. In fact, it had nothing to do directly with my baby. It was simple yet radical wisdom from a trusted source: my mentor and Baby Bomb ...

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The Big Win - What Divorcing Parents (and Their Kids) Want   divorce for couples parents secure functioning Oct 27, 2019

 

By Aurisha Smolarski, MA, LMFT 

PACT Level 2 Therapist
www.aurishasmolarski.com


 The marriage and relationship have ended, and you wish you could just say goodbye to each other and move on. But . . . you have kids. 

Relating to each other as divorced parents can be as...

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When Partners Become Parents: Using Pact to Create a Birth Bubble birth for therapists parents patricia williams pregnancy third Apr 15, 2018

Patricia Williams, LCSW
Westchester, NY & Vermont
PACT Level 2
patriciawilliams.net

As a couple therapist, it has long been a passion of mine to help couples prepare for the birth of a child, not only prenatally but post birth, as well. There is substantial evidence that...

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The Gift of Win-Wins for Couples Who are Parents children for couples kara hoppe parents Mar 18, 2018

Kara Hoppe, MA, LMFT 
PACT Level 2 
Los Angeles, CA 
karahoppe.com 

I recently became a parent to a beautiful baby boy, and I can speak from my own experience when I say that the struggle of mothering and coupling is real. I now have a new...

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