PACT Interviews and Workshops
Gain practical skills and learn new approaches that help you and your clients grow and thrive — even if you have not taken PACT training.
Open to all clinicians, these interviews and workshops are chock-full of useful information vital to your ongoing growth and development as a couple therapist.
If you have a PACTplus: Alumni Community Membership, these interviews and workshops are included in your membership. Please sign up in advance in your PACTplus portal for these events at no additional cost.
If you are not a PACTplus: Alumni Member, you can still register and join in! Simply sign up for each workshop using the links below.
Interviews
Join PACT developer Dr. Stan Tatkin as he interviews other experts in the field of couple therapy and delves deeper into topics related to sex issues, consensual non-monogamy, and the integration of PACT with other models of couple therapy.
In these interviews, you’ll meet a range of innovative and inspiring people who are working with couples in their own ways.
Workshops
In workshops, you’ll learn from PACT founder and other PACT faculty about experiential strategies, pioneering approaches, and practical resources that allow you to integrate new skills into everyday clinical practice and feel more confident in your work with couples.
Upcoming Events
Live Workshop | PACT in the Bedroom: Using PACT Interventions in Sex Therapy to Jumpstart Secure Functioning, by Dr. Karen Berry, PACT Certified Clinician, and Caroline Russell Smith, LCSW, AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, PACT Level 2
May 22, 2026
12:00pm - 2:30pm Pacific timeÂ
Sex therapy often intimidates couple therapists, and couple dynamics can overwhelm sex therapists. As a founding member and long-time practitioner of PACT, Dr. Karen Berry believes in the power of combining PACT couple therapy with sex therapy.Â
When couples are able to use erotic challenges as opportunities to grow their relationship they can experience dynamic healing and transformation in the bedroom and beyond.Â
In this 2.5-hour workshop, Dr. Karen Berry and her collaborator Caroline Russell-Smith (an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist and PACT Level 2-trained clinician) explore how PACT is a powerful way to work developmentally with complex couples in the arena of eroticism. Using real case material, they will walk you through a sequence of steps that help couples remain in each other’s care while they navigate issues like childhood sexual abuse, desire discrepancy, kink incompatibility, and more on their way toward an erotic and relational upgrade.
Karen and Caroline will walk you through how they utilize PACT interventions, including staging, with their own couples online and in person. They will demonstrate how arousal regulation, embodiment, and solid agreements can facilitate couples’ powerful shifts into secure functioning in an erotic context.
Karen and Caroline will discuss:
- The developmental journey from a relational and sexual impasse toward secure functioning in the bedroom and beyond
- How working moment-to-moment and bottom-up through the PACT lens empowers clinicians to assess and intervene in highly effective and efficient ways
- How assessment and case construction, therapeutic stance, arousal regulation, and attachment style impact couples’ erotic challenges
- How to use PACT interventions in a specifically sexual context
Plus These Great Benefits!
Can’t make it live? Purchase in advance to receive access to the workshop recording for 3 months. Note: The recording is only available if you register before the live event begins.
* CE credit is available for this workshop.Â
* No PACT training or experience in sex therapy is required to attend.
* Become a PACTplus: Alumni Community member now to reserve your seat for FREE.
Live Workshop | The Hidden Truth: Advanced Face Reading and Somatic-Driven Behavior by Dr. Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT, Founder of PACT
June 26, 2026
12:00pm – 2:30pm Pacific Time
Couples lie. The most accurate information in the therapy room is rarely what couples say, but what their faces and bodies reveal subconsciously.
In this workshop, Dr. Stan Tatkin will expound upon one of the cornerstones of the PACT method: training the mind and eye to track the subtlest shifts in facial expression and somatic response. Like Sherlock Holmes stepping back to observe rather than react, the skilled clinician learns to watch the whole room, including and especially the person who isn't talking.
In this 2.5-hour workshop, Stan will sharpen your ability to detect microexpressions and nonverbal cues that reveal what implicit memory holds and explicit narrative conceals. Using live microexpression training tools drawn from Paul Ekman's research, participants will practice identifying split-second expressions of fear, contempt, disgust, surprise, and more — and learn how to use that information strategically in session.
Stan will teach you:
- How to train your eye to catch microexpressions and somatic tells in real time to sharpen your clinical effectiveness
- Why attending to nonverbal channels increases empathy across all your social interactions, not just in clinical settings
- How to use what you observe strategically by setting up conditions to test and retest your hypotheses without tipping your hand
- The difference between expressions that are intended to be seen and those that leak out involuntarily
Plus These Great Benefits!
Can’t make it live? Purchase in advance to receive access to the workshop recording for 3 months. Note: The recording is only available if you register before the live event begins.Â
* CE credit is available for this workshop.Â
* No PACT training is required to attend.
Become a PACTplus: Alumni Community member now to reserve your seat for FREE.