Conversational Rape: Emotional Language, Conditional Love and Invasive Communication Patterns
Dr. Pat Allen is a licensed MFT and Certified Transactional Analyst and Cognitive Behavioral Therapist with a PhD in Psychology, a professional counselor to celebrities and CEOs, a specialist in addictions certified by Harvard Medical School, a popular motivational and mental health teacher, communication and relationships consultant to government agencies and large corporations, and founder of the WANT Instittue for Effective Communication Strategies.   With a practice spanning over 30 years, Pat has become a nationally acclaimed communication expert, popular love, sex and relationship speaker and media guest, regular on FOX News and CNN, and is the best-selling author of "Getting To 'I Do'" and "Staying Married...and Loving It." Pat is also the Reality Show Guest Therapist who helped Tiffany find her perfect mate on VH1’s ratings buster "I Love New York 2" and frequently appears with Patti Stanger on "The Millionaire Matchmaker."  Pat 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 and cherishing way, and how to achieve fundamental self-esteem and restore good physical and mental health through a unique technique she develoiped called Androgynous Semantic Realignment. By "rewiring" the brain, ASR 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 management executives, and her services have been retained by 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 showcased Pat four times and praised her as the “Therapist, Comic Mother Superior” when it comes to personal relationships. Rev. Michael Beckwith declares 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." Pat's warm, humorous and practical style makes her a frequent television and radio guest and motivational speaker much in demand at the international level.