Media, Publications & Presentations
Books and Articles
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Social Therapeutic Coaching: A Practical Guide to Group and Couples Work (2024) by Carrie Sackett and Murray Dabby provides an advanced method for shifting away from the isolating and hyper-individualized ‘me’ lens so prevalent in today’s culture. It shows how client growth is turbocharged when we practice through the ‘we’ lens, a lens more aligned with humans’ fundamental sociality. The first half introduces the four pillars and nine competencies of the method. The second half dives into what a coach might say and do as well as provides over two dozen practical examples of group and couples work.
The reader will likely see connections in social therapeutics with how they already practice and also feel challenged to stretch into new ways of speaking, feeling, doing and seeing.
Find out why Jonathan Passmore is ‘in awe of’ this work. (His book review here.) And why Social Therapeutic Coaching is purchased on Amazon alongside books authored by coaching greats Richard Boyatzis, Marcia Reynolds and David Drake.
How Relational Questions Help Your Clients Make Deeper Connections. (2024) Accessible here with permission from CHOICE: the magazine of professional coaching.
The Coaching Psychologist Journal. Published by the British Psychological Society. Vol. 20, No. 2. Dec. 2024
“[The authors’] belief that the world is developing in a completely new direction and requires a whole new set of tools, resonates” ; “…it is not difficult to see how many of the practices could also be helpful in single-client work.”
Podcast Appearances
Lyssa deHart welcomes Carrie Sackett, PCC, also known as America’s Loneliness Coach, for a deep dive into her unique approach to coaching. The discussion covers how Carrie’s experience in social therapeutics has shaped her methods for building relational skills, combating loneliness, and fostering emotional resilience. (2024)
Available on YouTube, Apple, Amazon Audible, iHeart Radio.
From ME to WE. In today’s world coaching isn’t just about the individual—it’s about connections and more meaningful relationships—with themselves, with others and within their communities. This conversation with CHOICE publisher Garry Schleifer dives into how relational coaching is shaping the future of the profession. (2025)
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3.5 hours of advanced coaching method.
Learn the 4 pillars of social therapeutics at your own pace.
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FROM ME TO WE. In a culture overdetermined by individualism, the question group and team coaches grapple with is, “What new tools must we tap into to avoid taking individual-based practice models with us into group work?”
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Our world is seeking out new conceptual, emotional and relational tools for navigating these uncertain and emotional times. The field of coaching is uniquely positioned to respond.
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Drawing on the latest discoveries in neuroscience and works by Dr. Richard Boyatzis, Adam Grant and Batja Mesquita, learn how to support your clients to break out of outdated assumptions about emotions and achieve their leadership, transformation and well-being goals.
Speaking Engagements
America’s Loneliness Coach Carrie Sackett MS, PCC introduces practical tools for breaking out of the inner mental loop that keeps us stuck and feeling alone.
Delivered in-person or virtually at universities, health and wellness conferences and community-based organizations, this interactive 75-minute talk challenges participants to see loneliness as a social crisis that we have all created together, and thus, one we must to address together rather than as separate individuals.
Join Carrie Sackett, pioneer in fostering “emotional growth”, to learn new tools for relating and responding to emotionality. Drawing on the latest discoveries in neuroscience and works by Batja Mesquita, Adam Grant and Dr. Richard Boyatzis, she shows in practice how to support clients, teams, companies, families and communities to break out of outdated assumptions about emotions and achieve their leadership, transformation and well-being goals.
Delivered in-person or virtually at major conferences, universities, and mental health and Family Life Sciences events.
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- Shelley, PCC
Highly recommend working with the center's founder Carrie Sackett for coaching
- Sarah, group facilitator and somatic coach
What is Social Therapeutic Coaching?
Social therapeutics is a group-based approach to emotional well-being and personal growth. It helps people develop the relational muscles needed to build meaningful connection with others, and the sense of community and belonging that we all crave.
Social Therapeutic Coaching offers a conceptual and methodological shift by adopting a ‘we’ lens—more aligned with the sociality of our species. Today’s pervasive ‘me’ lens imposes a model of the isolated individual, trapping us in a never ending inner mental loop which fuels the growing rates of loneliness, anxiety, ADHD, imposter syndrome and more.
In social therapeutic couples and family work, the coach helps clients discover what the relationship or the family needs, rather than trying to get individuals to compromise or change to get a particular result.
“I am in awe of” social therapeutic couples coaching.
—Jonathan Passmore, award-winning coach, psychologist and thought leader to his 20,000 LinkedIn followers
About Carrie Sackett, CEO of The Center for Group and Couples Coaching
Carrie Sackett, MS, PCC
Coach, Speaker, Trainer, Author
Carrie Sackett, MS, PCC is America’s loneliness coach. For over 25 years, she has been practicing a boldly transformative approach to emotional wellness and personal growth, in the coach’s chair and outside the coach’s office as a Fortune 500 global change leader and award-winning employee engagement professional.
She authored Social Therapeutic Coaching: A Practical Guide to Group and Couples Work (Routledge, 2024) and her articles have appeared in Choice: The Magazine of Professional Coaching and Coaching Perspectives. She has appeared on numerous podcasts and gives talks at coaching conferences and universities.
In 2023, Carrie founded a training company, The Center for Group and Couples Coaching, to offer coaches of all types with next generation tools that empower clients to transform their lives.
Carrie received her undergraduate degree at Duke University and her masters in Strategic Communications from Columbia University. She currents serves on the Board of Mentally Anonymous as the Director of Emotional Growth and Well-being.
