Opportunity Through Affect for therapists jeff pincus Jul 17, 2016

by Jeff Pincus, LCSW, and Rachel Cahn, LPC
PACT faculty members
Emails: [email protected], [email protected]


Most people would agree that relationships, especially love relationships, are incredibly complex. Most honest psychotherapists would add that couple therapy...

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The PACT Therapeutic Stance for therapists melissa ferrari Jun 13, 2016
by Melissa Ferrari – Dip. of Couns.& Comm/Adv. Dip in Transactional Analysis
PACFA Clinically Registered  Psychotherapist & Couple Therapist
PACT LEVEL III Practitioner
Sydney, Australia

I love being a couple therapist, and after 18 years, I am pretty...

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Applying the Three PACT Domains arousal attachment for therapists mary ackerman neuroscience May 15, 2015

by Mary Ackerman, MIC, BASS (Cllg); CARE Counselling Hong Kong, PACT Level II practitioner
Website: carecounsellinghk.com

Philippe and Grace, who have been married for twelve years, are clients in my clinical practice in Hong Kong. He is French Swiss and works in finance, and she is Korean...

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King and Queen: Protecting the Couple Relationship for therapists rachel holland secure functioning Mar 14, 2015

by Rachel Holland, DClinPsych, PACT faculty, Buckinghamshire, UK
Email: [email protected]

One of the characteristics of secure functioning a PACT therapist communicates is that romantic couples, as the King and Queen of their domain, protect their relationship and each other in...

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Power Couplesā€¦Activate! attachment for therapists maxims pact community pair bonding secure functioning Aug 13, 2014

by Eva Van Prooyen, M.F.T., PACT faculty, Los Angeles CA
Website:  Eva.VP.com
Email:  [email protected]

Healthy, secure relationships are a source of vital energy. PACT therapists know people feel good when they understand how to be successful partners. We are energized by a secure...

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Secure Enough to Be Spontaneous arousal attachment brain for therapists ideas pact community prevention Apr 13, 2014

by Hans Jorg Stahlschmidt, Ph.D., PACT faculty, Berkeley CA,
Website: www.stahlschmidt-therapy.com
Email: [email protected]

Burnout is common among psychotherapists. Countless articles and books deal with reasons for and prevention of burnout. However, some instances of burnout are nearly...

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Betrayal Causes Trauma arousal attachment brain for therapists ideas pair bonding stan tatkin Mar 16, 2014

by Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT

In matters of betrayal—lying, cheating, stealing—the breach of the attachment system is acute and often long lasting and can be understood neurologically as a trauma-related problem.

Franklin and Zeynep, a couple in their early 40s with two young children,...

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Attraction to Psychological Approaches approaches couples for therapists ideas pact pair bonding stan tatkin theories Apr 14, 2013

by Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT,
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I’m an avid lover of theory, all kinds of theory—psychoanalytic, systems, humanistic-existential, and so on. I think my appreciation of theories grows as I age, as does my appreciation of people, relationships, music, art, and politics. As I...

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Sit, Down, Stay! arousal attachment avoidance commands for therapists ideas influence maxims prevention regulation stan tatkin teach Feb 13, 2013

by Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT,
stantatkin.com

This addendum to my previous post, Train Your Partner, is intended to clarify another important concept in relationship management. So many of us struggle with how to “parent” or “train” our partner when we feel rejected,...

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Waiting for Inspiration approach for therapists interventions stan tatkin therapy Dec 30, 2012

by Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT,
stantatkin.com

Inspiration should be the guiding incentive for doing interventions, not pressure. Many therapists, including experienced ones, act on pressure rather than from a creative place. Pressure can come in various forms: pressure from the patient, pressure from...

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Daily Rekindling of Love arousal for couples for therapists stan tatkin Aug 07, 2012

by Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT,
stantatkin.com

Romantic love is an addiction. Although we "feel" romantic love, the feeling is largely the result of a particular brain circuitry and neurochemical cocktail more closely related to the addiction or reward circuit.

Successful long term couples understand...

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Tortoises and Hares arousal for couples for therapists stan tatkin Jun 15, 2012

by Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT,
stantatkin.com

Quite different from Airplanes and Submarines are Tortoises and Hares. While the former points to arousal preference for either high sympathetic or low parasympathetic states, the latter refers to mental processing speed, or "RPMs" as I like to call it....

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