Ep 17 Wired For Love-Cultivating Healthy Partnerships

Nov 28, 2017

Welcome to episode seventeen of the Honest Mamas Podcast. Today, our guest is Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT, who is a clinician, researcher, teacher, and developer of A Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy® (PACT).

He has a clinical practice in Calabasas, CA, where he has specialized for the last 15 years in working with couples and individuals who wish to be in relationships. He and his wife, Tracey Boldemann-Tatkin, developed the PACT Institute for the purpose of training other psychotherapists to use this method in their clinical practice.

In addition, Dr. Tatkin teaches and supervises first- through third-year family medicine residents at Kaiser Permanente, Woodland Hills, CA, and is an assistant clinical professor at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine. He is on the board of directors of Lifespan Learning Institute and serves as a core member on Relationships First, a nonprofit organization founded by Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt.

What you’ll hear in this episode

 

• How Stan became an expert working with couples
• The three attachment styles in the PACT approach—the wave, anchor and island
• The way in which these attachment styles show up
• Working with our partners to crate safe and secure attachments
• How to deal with these issues as children come into the relationship
• Practical tips on how to manage conflict within a relationship
• Why you shouldn’t stay in an unhappy relationship just for the kids

Resources

https://stantatkin.com

http://thepackardinstitute.com

Ted Talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xKXLPuju8U