Our Book

The first half of Social Therapeutic Coaching: A Practical Guide to Group and Couples Work introduces four key concepts and fourteen 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. 

BOOK STUDY

AMERICAS TIME ZONE

Fridays, September 20, October 5, 18, November 1
4:00-5:15pm ET/ 1:00-2:15pm PT

EMEA AND EASTERN AMERICAS

Mondays, September 16, 30, October 14, 28
16:00pm-17:15pm GMT +1 / 11:00am-12:15 pm ET

Join with author Carrie Sackett, MS, PCC in four bi-weekly deep-dive discussions of Social Therapeutic Coaching: A Practical Guide to Group and Couples Work. Bring your curiosity, questions, eagerness to learn and openness to go somewhere new together while learning this advanced method. 

Fee: $250. $220 early bird by August 31

Next Book Study groups begin in January 2025 – sign up for our Winter wait list

What is Social Therapeutic Coaching?

Social therapeutics offers a conceptual and methodological shift, providing an alternative to relying on the fixed categories, labels and diagnoses that pervade our culture. It embraces radical acceptance and ability to create with uncertainty, viewing collective human activity—group activity—as the unit of human development, rather than the individual.

In social therapeutic couples and family work, the coach helps clients discover what the relationship or the family needs, instead of trying to get individuals to compromise or change to get a particular result. 

What practitioners and thought leaders are saying about the book.

“I am in awe of” social therapeutic couples coaching.

—Jonathan Passmore, award-winning coach, psychologist and thought leader to his 20,000 LinkedIn followers

  • The innovations of social therapeutics inform my coaching practice every day. This book is a ground-breaking offering for co-creating trust, connection, belonging and community; and, most importantly, for supporting our clients to achieve their goals in life and work.

    — Elizabeth C. Hechtman, MS, PCC, CPCC, Past President, ICF Philadelphia

  • Sackett and Dabby define a new niche in the modern coaching industry. Social Therapeutic Coaching introduces new/old knowledge so that coaches can help the masses during this rather difficult time of “humaning”. This book is brilliant on so many levels.

    — Michael Tucker MA, PCC, CSM, CSPO

  • I have experienced the power of social therapeutic group and couples work as a client. It has changed my own life and my practice as a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. Sackett and Dabby teach tools for emotional closeness. I encourage practitioners of all types to read it.

    — Aneil M. Shirke, MD, PhD, FABPN, FABP 

  • This is a rare book that succeeds in uniting theory and practice. Even rarer is doing it with such joy. As a practical-philosophical guide, Social Therapeutic Coaching brings the history, concepts and practices of social therapeutics to the field of coaching and, in the process, enriches both of them.

    — Lois Holzman, PhD, Director, East Side Institute

About Carrie Sackett, CEO of The Center for Group and Couples Coaching

Carrie Sackett, MS, PCC

Coach, Author, Speaker, Trainer

Carrie has been practicing social therapeutics for 25 years—in the coach’s chair and outside the coach’s office as a Fortune 500 global change leader, an award-winning employee engagement professional and an international nonprofit executive of innovative, privately-funded youth development programs. 

She is the founder of ZPD Coaching, a virtual and international practice specializing in Life Development Groups, couples and family work. For coaching sessions with Carrie, reach her here.

Carrie graduated from Duke University and received her Master’s in Strategic Communications from Columbia University. In addition to training with social therapeutics’ founders at the East Side Institute in Manhattan, she is an ICF-accredited somatic coach by The Somatic School, based in London.