New attachment relationships as adults have the capacity to re-pattern wounds from childhood and provide a psychoneurobiological basis for healing.
A committed relationship offers great comfort and satisfaction, but often times serves as a vessel within which our “fight or flight” responses get activated, especially when linked to past trauma and/or attachment wounds from early childhood. While these survival responses were necessary at the time, they can damage relationships as adults in the present. Working experientially through PACT and attachment-based psychotherapy, I facilitate healthy relational behaviors between you and your partner that are based on mutuality, sensitivity, and trust. You will develop skills to quickly relieve distress and connect on a deeply attuned level. Ultimately, you will move towards a secure functioning relationship and restore the love, connection, and joy in your life together.
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 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 sessions to provide immediate feedback to you.