Consultation Group: Advanced with Dr. Stan Tatkin
Monthly consultation groups for clinicians who have completed PACT Level 1 are available through the PACT+ Alumni Membership program.
When you are looking to participate in a culture of collaboration and lifelong learning that can provide a rich source of feedback and guidance, consider joining the Consultation Group: Advanced with Stan.
About the Consultation Group: Advanced
With the Consultation Group: Advanced with Stan, we’re trying something a little different.Â
The principles of the group are the same: an opportunity to enhance your clinical skills, to hear diverse perspectives, to reduce the sense of isolation that often comes with being a therapist, and to find emotional support.Â
In addition to all of these benefits, we’re also looking to build a sense of community. Once you sign up for this Consultation Group: Advanced, you’ll have the first opportunity to join again when Stan offers a new session. The idea is to encourage consistency, foster collaboration, and grow together.Â
The Consultation Group: Advanced will be small and intimate – a maximum of 15 clinicians. And sessions will be longer – a full 2 hours – to allow for deeper, more focused learning; opportunities to present your case and receive feedback; and discussion of more complex issues that goes beyond what can be covered in other groups.
More Benefits of Stan’s Consultation Group: Advanced
These small group settings will also allow you to address issues that might come up in working with a client — or a type of client — and you’ll have opportunities to talk with colleagues who understand the complicated role you play as a therapist.
When you feel stuck, Stan’s Consultation Group: Advanced can help you develop a coherent plan to focus treatment interventions, which in turn help you help your couples move forward. You’ll learn effective ways of framing or reframing client issues and how to apply specific PACT techniques to gain clinical traction and achieve better outcomes.
Whether you need some support or a whole new strategy to consider, you’ll come away with a fresh perspective.
- Consolidate and practice what you learned in training.
- Talk through complex cases or difficult interactions with clients.
- Explore when and how to use specific PACT tools and techniques.
- Gain practical advice you can use right away.
- Hear diverse perspectives and insightful approaches of other professionals in the field.
- Understand issues that get triggered in your own life while working with clients.Â
- Make valuable and fulfilling professional connections.
- Prevent professional burnout.
- Practice preparing and conceptualizing a case for presentation.
Expectations for Advanced Consultation with Stan
Once you enroll in the Consultation Group: Advanced, you will be required to write and prepare a case for presentation.
Preparing a case for presentation is an important step in helping yourself (and others) conceptualize or reframe a case in a way that can help a couple move forward. We provide guidance with a thorough and straightforward outline for you to use.Â
All group members will be assigned a day to submit their case. Stan will review all case submissions and will work with 1-3 cases in each session that he believes will significantly advance participants’ learning. He will answer questions, provide insight, and support you with practical tools and experiential exercises.
Consultation Group: Advanced with Stan
First Quarter
January 14 | February 11 | March 11
8:00am-10:00am Pacific Time
Second Quarter
April 15 | May 13 | June 17
12:00pm-2:00pm Pacific Time
Third Quarter
July 15 | August 12 | September 9
8:00am-10:00am Pacific Time
Fourth Quarter
October 7 | November 18 | December 9
12:00pm-2:00pm Pacific Time
Sign up for 3 months at a time or the full year. PACT+ Alumni Members receive 10 percent off the full-year registration fee for Advanced Casework with Stan.
Once you join the Consultation Group: Advanced, you’ll receive priority to sign up early for future sessions. The idea is to build community and create consistency for PACT'S advanced level therapists to collaborate and grow together.