PACT^® PROFESSIONAL TRAINING GROUPS

A Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy® (PACT) focuses on early attachment and its effect on brain and nervous system development, as well as on specific neuroendocrine issues related to interpersonal stress. The PACT methodology emphasizes enactment of experience over cognition or psychological interpretation. Interventions often entail therapeutically staged moments intended to trigger arousal and implicit somatoaffective experience and memory. A psychobiologically trained clinician meticulously attends to each patient’s moment-to-moment variations and shifts in affect and arousal as observed in the face, body, and voice. In couple work especially, these macro and micro state changes occur extremely fast. This training enables clinicians to discover and analyze psychobiological cues, or “tells,” and other bottom-up (implicit) processes that reveal what top-down (explicit) approaches cannot. Professional training for PACT is intended for licensed and pre-licensed marriage and family therapists, social workers, psychologists, and psychiatrists. Teaching methods include didactic and multimedia delivery of information, group discussion, experiential exercises, clinical video presentations, case consultation, and live case enactments. Training is available in Level I (beginning) and Level II (advanced). It is presently offered in the following locations:

Austin, TX -- Berkeley, CA -- Boulder, CO -- Los Angeles, CA -- Madison, NJ -- Seattle, WA -- Toronto, Canada

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