Dr. Stan Tatkin PsyD, MFT is a teacher, clinician, researcher, and developer of the Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy® (PACT).® and best-selling author of Wired for Love. Stan is an expert on human behavior and couple relationships. He speaks and teaches around the world on secure-functioning relationships – how to understand them, create them, and support them. Stan has written dozens of academic articles and six bestselling books. A Therapist’s Therapist. Stan and his wife, Tracey Boldemann-Tatkin, PhD, created the The PACT Institute in 2010 to train mental health professionals to successfully integrate a psychobiological approach in their clinical practices. Through the PACT Institute, Stan has trained thousands of therapists around the world. A former president of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, Ventura County chapter, Stan is a veteran member of Allan N. Schore’s study group. He’s trained in the Adult Attachment, Facial Action Coding System, and Strange Situation. He was also trained in Self and Object Relations for working with personality disorders through the Masterson Institute. Stan is an experienced facilitator in Vipassana, having trained with Shinzen Young, PhD, in Vipassana meditation. He also trained with David Reynolds, PhD, in two Japanese forms of psychotherapy, Morita and Naikan. Follow Stan on Instagram.
Ron DeStefano, PhD is a family psychologist who has been practicing for over 50 years and has taught at the University of California San Francisco, various doctoral programs, and internationally.
Ron has been a highly effective Couples Therapist with half of his practice being therapists themselves. As the youngest Charter Member of the American Family Therapy Academy, Ron learned from and worked with the founders of the field. He has trained with the innovators of Family Systems, Gestalt, NLP, EMDR, and hypnosis. Having led Himalayan treks, he incorporates his studies with Thich Nhat Hahn, the Dalai Lama and Ramesh Balsekar in his therapeutic practice. Currently, He is writing a book, ‘Me, mySelf and I’, to share useful and unique constructs he has long used in therapy. Interviews with Ron by fellow psychologist and former Uzbeck ambassador Alisher Faizullaev can be found on Alisher’s Youtube channel. Ron enjoys his family, friends, playing guitar, gardening and using his tractor.
Join us to watch the conversation live on Zoom, with an opportunity to ask questions and interact with the speakers.
Event duration: approx. 60 minutes.