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: Reading Between the Lies: Detecting Deception in Couples Therapy, taught by Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT

August 29, 2025
8:00am - 10:30am Pacific time

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.

* PACT training is not a prerequisite to attend.

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Live Workshop: Helping Couples Decide Whether and How to Divorce: A PACT 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?

Join PACT faculty Joy Dryer, PhD and Certified Divorce Mediator, for an interactive workshop that breaks new ground in applying PACT’s principles to the separation or divorce process. Joy will apply the PACT domains of secure functioning (attachment, brain science, co-regulation) to the three stages of uncoupling (assessing, deciding, separating).

Joy will teach you how transference and countertransference can be applied to your own clinical intuition. She will also show you how to successfully create a neutral “third space,” where partners can effectively communicate, regulate emotions, and manage conflict and difference with compassion.

You will gain practical tools to help couples ask the right questions and decide together the direction of their relationship, whether to remain a couple or to uncouple.

Bring your most difficult case to the workshop. Joy will give a case example and then walk you through the complexities of your case to help you apply the same principles.

Through lecture, discussion, Q&A, and small group breakout rooms, learn how to better support clients through one of life’s most difficult transitions.

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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 time

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.

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.