A NOTE FROM JASON:

Hi again. In this episode I’ve got my colleague, John Guy along with me to reflect on the Ron and Chakahier initial couple clinical interview.  John hails out of Seattle and he has a private practice seeing couples, a background in facilitating groups focused on race and gender and is a practicing Buddhist.

I called John because I was looking for someone who is both a PACT trained therapist and could help me to think about issues of race and gender in couples therapy.  John delivers on both of these fronts and made a number of comments in this interview that are gems of perspective on couples and just being a good human being.  Comments that keep popping into my mind as I go about my days since we spoke .  So take a listen and let me know what you think, [email protected]

ABOUT SEASON 2 of HUMAN NURTURE:

Hosted by Jason Brand, LCSW a practicing couples therapist in Berkeley, California.  

In Season 2 of Human Nurture we will cover PACT in Training.  PACT stands for a Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy and has a reputation for effectively helping the most challenging situations that come up between couples.  

This season, we will answer the question, "How does a couples therapist learn to help with THAT?!?"  

"THAT?!?" could be any challenge that a couple brings into counseling-- from infidelity, to arguments about money, to processing past trauma, to decisions about the health and well being of a child. 

This season gives an insider's view to the world of couples therapy through interviews with actual couples and consultation interviews with other expert PACT therapists.  If you are a couples therapist looking to sharpen your skills, or if you are just curious about how couples therapists learn to do their job, tune into this season of Human Nurture.