Publications & Podcasts

Books and Articles

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’ mindset so prevalent in today’s culture. It shows how client growth is turbocharged when we practice through the ‘We’ mindset, a mindset 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 communicating, feeling, doing and seeing. 

Find out why Jonathan Passmore is “in awe of” this work. And why Social Therapeutic Coaching is purchased on Amazon alongside books authored by coaching greats Richard Boyatzis, Marcia Reynolds and David Drake.

Sackett, Carrie. We’re Doing Our Emotions All Wrong. Coaching Perspectives. 44:2025.

Sackett, Carrie. How Relational Questions Help Your Clients Make Deeper Connections. Choice: the magazine of professional coaching. 2024.

As Seen In

DiGirolamo, Joel. 2025. A Reflection on Coaching: Bringing Us Up to Date and a Look Ahead. The International Journal of HRD, Practice Policy and Research. 9(1).

International Coaching Federation VP Research and Data Joel DiGirolamo cites Social Therapeutic Coaching in his new article. He sees STC as offering advanced tools that universally carry into all specialty coaching. 

“You’ve had a role in moving the profession forward, Carrie! So thankful for the great work you’re doing!”

— Joel DiGirolamo

Gow, Nicole. 2024. Review of Social Therapeutic Coaching: A Practical Guide to Group and Couples Work. The Coaching Psychologist. 20(2): 89-90.

“[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.”

—Nicole Gow

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.

Group Coaching is All About Appreciating Each Other’s Growth. This engaging interview with Prabin Sharma is perfect for newer coaches looking to build their practice. (2025)

Available on YouTube, Spotify

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)

Available on YouTube, Spotify, Apple

From Me to We: Shifting Our Group and Team Coaching Mindset to Turbocharge Client Growth.

This conversation with Dr. Dave A. Cornelius offers innovative answers with real group session stories. Whether you already lead groups or are considering taking the plunge into group leadership, this conversation is not to be missed. Available here.

  • 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