What is the Gottman Method?

The Gottman Method is a research backed therapeutic style that is utilized for working with couples. It is structured in a way that offers help for couples’ wishing to work through an array of issues.

The Gottman Method is helpful for couples’ wanting to increase communication skills, working through infidelity, considering separation, or generally wanting to improve your relationship.

In our work together, I will guide you through whatever struggles your relationship faces in a structured, empathic way. I will provide you with tools for your relationship to incorporate in and outside our therapy space.

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John and Julie Gottman created this therapeutic method by studying couples for over 20 years, utilizing science and clinicial judgement to determine what makes couples work, and what makes couples separate.

They observed conversation styles, ways couples’ connect on a moment-to-moment basis, couples’ stress hormone levels, and ways they conduct disagreements. Throughout their work, they were able to determine key factors that successful couples’ possessed, and were able to predict with over 93% accuracy which couples would separate.

The Gottmans created a visual way to measure the success of a relationship through the Sound Relationship House. Each layer of the house is ranked as a strength or a challenge and includes direct ways to help strengthen each layer.

In our work together, I will create a personal Sound Relationship House for your relationship, which will offer insight on where we will begin addressing your relationship, including specific interventions and skills to utilize.