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
Couples, Trauma, and the World We’re Living In: A Conversation with Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT, and Akilah Riley-Richardson, MSW, CCTP
April 24, 2026
12:00pm - 1:30pm Pacific timeÂ
PACTplus Members: Sign in and reserve your FREE seat!
Therapists everywhere are sitting with couples whose lives and relationships are being shaped not only by their personal histories and attachment patterns but by the daily news and the world outside their doors.Â
Global instability and widespread social and economic pressures are affecting people in real and profound ways. For many couples, these realities impact how they connect, communicate, and feel secure together.
In this special live conversation, PACT developer Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT, interviews Akilah Riley‑Richardson, MSW, CCTP, author of Marginalized Couples in Therapy: Interventions for Healing from Systemic Trauma.Â
Her groundbreaking work centers couples navigating systemic trauma. Drawing from her own clinical framework, Akilah invites all therapists to look directly at the forces shaping couples today and expand their therapeutic stance to meet the moment.
“The purpose of this is not just to have people learn, but to sense deeply… the necessity of therapists thinking about the impact of our current climate on couples.” ~Akilah Riley-Richardson, MSW, CCTP
Akilah will introduce her B.I.O.M.E. framework (Bravery, Intensity/Intimacy, Openness, Microliberatory Movements, Epistemic Embracing) and the P.R.I.D.E. model (Pivot, Rumble, Imagine, Develop, Evolve), both of which she developed and uses to guide her work.
“Akilah Riley-Richardson is a shining star, a passionate thinker, a teacher and clinician. She is an original and an exciting thought leader in our field.” ~Stan Tatkin, PsyD, LMFT
The interview will blend discussion, teaching, and clinical illustration. Akilah will share moments that help therapists feel the lived experience of couples facing systemic harm.Â
Stan and Akilah will explore how clinicians can integrate the B.I.O.M.E. framework into their own practices, and they will also leave time for questions.Â
When you register to join, you’ll receive a recording that you’ll be able to watch on demand for three months after the live event.Â
* PACT training is not a prerequisite to attend.
* PACTplus Members! Sign in and reserve your FREE seat now!Â
* Not yet a PACTplus: Alumni Member? Join now and reserve your seat for FREE.
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.