The Gottmans created The Gottman Institute in 1996. Since then, they have trained over 55,000 clinicians worldwide in their couples therapy methods, and have conducted workshops for over 100,000 couples. Today, the Gottman Method is the leading therapy in helping relationships.

Twenty-two years later, they founded Affective Software Inc., which combined state-of-the-art technologies with the Gottman Method. As a result, the best of the Gottman Method has been made accessible to anyone across the globe.

The Gottman Science

The Gottman Method is based on world-class science. Some of the breakthrough discoveries include:

Combining the study of emotion with psycho-physiological and video-recall measurements.

Development of the Specific Affect Coding System.

Development of The Sound Relationship House Theory.

Development of the “Love Lab”, the world’s first multimodal lab for the empirical analysis of diverse relationships

The Gottman Love Lab

The famous Gottman Love Lab combines sophisticated mathematical analyses with video, audio, and physiology data from real couples. In the same way an X-ray machine lets us know what’s going on within the body, our analyses provide “X-ray vision” into what’s happening within the relationship.

The legendary Love Lab has arrived via the Gottman Connect telehealth portal! This new offering can be thought of as a portable version of the original Love Lab, now delivered to any mobile device. This user-friendly application will empower clinicians to serve their clients with unparalleled precision using our relationship ‘X-ray’.