The Truth About Men Will Set You Free: The New Science of Love and Dating
Dr. Pat Allen is a licensed MFT and Certified Cognitive Behavioral Therapist and Transactional Analyst with a practice spanning over 30 years, the founder and a director of the WANT Institute for Effective Communication Strategies, a nationally acclaimed communication expert, popular love, sex and relationship speaker and radio guest, regular on FOX News and CNN, best-selling author of "Getting To 'I Do'" and "Staying Married...and Loving It," and Reality Show Guest Therapist who helped Tiffany find her perfect mate on VH1’s ratings buster "I Love New York 2" and frequently assists Patti Stanger, "The Millionaire Matchmaker."  She has invested her life in training women and men how to communicate with authenticity, in a loving manner, how to confront each other in a respectful, cherishing way, and how to achieve fundamental self-esteem and restore good physical and mental health through her unique technique of Androgynous Semantic Realignment, which allows individuals to successfully change negative behaviors and overcome addictions by changing their language patterns. Her clients range from hurting individuals and couples to professional communication experts and CEOS, corporations and associations including IBM, Colgate Palmolive, Cedar-Sinai Hospital, UCLA Medical Center, Hoag Hospital, Vistage, PSI Seminars, the Bill Wilson House and the Betty Ford Clinic. Her tenets and teachings have inspired relationship experts John Gray and Marianne Williamson, comedians Yakov Smirnoff and Pauley Shore, and formed the basis for the feature film "Duty Dating." Oprah Winfrey has featured Pat four times and praised her as the “Therapist, Comic Mother Superior” when it comes to personal relationships, and Rev. Michael Beckwith says Pat has the talent to go to the core of an individual and assist them out of the mire of their past, and that "the world is a lot better off because of Pat Allen."