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 PACT+ Alumni Membership, these interviews and workshops are included in your membership. Please sign up in advance in your PACT+ portal for these events at no additional cost.
If you are not a PACT+ 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: Deliberate Practice for Psychotherapists, taught by Jason Brand, LCSW, PACT Certified Clinician
June 27, 2025
8:00am - 10:30am Pacific timeÂ
Join PACT Certified therapist and lead Deliberate Practice instructor, Jason Brand, LCSW, for this engaging and experiential new live online workshop designed to help you grow as a therapist.
Jason will combine the PACT perspective with a practical approach to improving performance to help you navigate even your most challenging clinical moments.Â
By the end of the workshop, you will be able to:
- Distinguish between traditional and Deliberate Practice approaches to clinical skill development
- Apply Deliberate Practice methods to improve your therapy and supervision skills
- Integrate Deliberate Practice methods of skill building with PACT principles of couple therapy to strengthen your work with couples
- Identify and work through common clinical sticking points
- Enhance your self-awareness during sessions
When you purchase the workshop, you’ll receive a recording that you’ll be able to watch on demand for 3 months after the live event.
* 3 CE credits are available for this workshop.
* PACT training is not a prerequisite to attend.
Live Workshop: Reading Between the Lies: Detecting Deception in Couples Therapy, taught by Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT
August 29, 2025
8:00am - 10:30am Pacific timeÂ
Couple therapy often involves navigating hidden truths, half-truths, and outright fabrications. How can therapists detect when something isn’t adding up? In this eye-opening workshop, explore the subtle yet powerful ways the body and brain reveal deception under stress. Sharpen your ability to sense what’s unsaid, bring the best version of the truth into the room, and guide couples toward deeper trust and accountability.
* 3 CE credits are available for this workshop.Â
* PACT training is not a prerequisite to attend.
Live Workshop: Guiding Couples Through Separation: A PACT-Informed Approach, taught by Joy Dryer, PhD, PACT Faculty
September 26, 2025
8:00am - 10:30am Pacific time
How do PACT principles apply to partners considering separation? How do you get better at helping them through one of the most challenging transitions of their lives?
This engaging workshop explores how PACT’s principles of secure functioning can support couples — even as they’re uncoupling. Led by PACT faculty member and Certified Divorce Mediator Joy Dryer, PhD, the session integrates PACT with Relational Dialectics Theory to help therapists guide clients through the complex emotional terrain of separation or divorce.
Join us for discussion, clinical video, demonstration, and Q&A. Participants will examine the key tensions couples face — autonomy vs. connection, openness vs. closedness, predictability vs. novelty — and how these show up in the uncoupling process.Â
Therapists will also learn how to create a neutral “third space,” where partners can communicate effectively, regulate emotions, and manage contradiction with compassion.
Gain tools for assessing relationship viability and determining whether couples are best served by continuing, restructuring, or ending the relationship — all while supporting clients with clarity and compassion through one of life’s most difficult transitions.
Live Workshop: Beyond Talk: Creating Action-Based Containers to Move Couples Forward, taught by Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT
October 24, 2025
8:00am - 10:30am Pacific timeÂ
Couples therapy can sometimes feel like wandering through a fog. How do you provide couples with clarity, direction, and measurable progress in each session? Enter the container: a structured, time-bound exercise designed to test hypotheses, challenge partners, and reveal relationship dynamics in real time.
In this interactive workshop, you'll learn how to design and implement action-based containers that put couples in the hot seat — whether it’s replaying a conflict step-by-step, negotiating a deal-breaker, or navigating a high-stakes conversation under the therapist’s guidance.Â
The benefits of using these dynamic interventions are significant. Join us and sharpen your ability to assess, track, and move couples forward toward positive change.
Plus expect live demonstrations, practical strategies, and a fresh way to structure your sessions — because therapy should be more than just talking. It should be an experience.