A committed relationship offers great comfort and satisfaction, but often times can serve as a vessel within which our “fight or flight” responses get activated. This is especially true when conflicts (often unknowingly) trigger past trauma and childhood adversities. Left unresolved, these hurtful experiences of our past can wreak havoc in adult intimate relationships. Working experientially through PACT and attachment-based psychotherapy, I facilitate healthy relational behaviors between you and your partner that are based on fairness, sensitivity, and trust. You will learn skills to deepen intimacy and quickly relieve conflicts as they arise. Ultimately, you will move towards a secure functioning relationship and restore the vibrance and joy that brought you together in the first place.

PACT therapy gets to the heart of the matter and can create profound healing experiences. Couples often report feeling relief after the first session. Due to the comprehensive and experiential nature of PACT, sessions can run longer than an hour, however PACT tends to require fewer sessions than do other forms of couple therapy.

What does a PACT session look like?

Your experience during a PACT session may differ somewhat from what you would experience in other forms of couple therapy. Key features of this approach may include:

• Your therapist will focus on moment-to-moment shifts in your face, body, and voice, and ask you to pay close attention to these as a couple.

• Your therapist will create experiences similar to those troubling your relationship and help you work through them in real time during the session.

• PACT tends to require fewer sessions than do other forms of couple therapy.

• PACT sessions often exceed the 50-min hour and may last as long as 3–6 hours. Longer times allow for the in-depth work of PACT.

• Your therapist may videotape your interactions in session to provide immediate feedback about you.