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Co-founded by Drs. John and Julie Schwartz Gottman, the Gottman Relationship Institute has two major functions: helping couples directly, and providing state-of-the-art training to mental health professionals and other health care providers. The Gottman Relationship Institute applies leading-edge research on marriage in a practical, down-to-earth therapy and trains therapists committed to helping couples. No other approach to couples education and therapy has relied on such intensive, detailed, and long-term scientific study of why marriages succeed or fail.    

We understand that the human family is in crisis, and that all individuals are capable of and deserve compassion. It is our mission to reach out to families in order to help create and maintain greater love and health in relationships. We are committed to an ongoing program of research that increases the understanding of relationships and adds to the development of interventions that have been carefully evaluated. It is our goal to make our services accessible to the broadest reach of people across race, religion, class, culture, sexual orientation, and ethnicity. We are also committed to the care and support of our Institute team, as we know that compassion must begin with ourselves.

Dr. John Gottman Dr. John Gottman Find out more about the nation's foremost marriage and parenting researcher, and the co-founder of The Gottman Relationship Institute. See More
The Gottman Institute The Gottman Institute provides practical, research-based tools to strengthen and repair marriages & relationships. See More
Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman Julie is the co-founder and Clinical Director of the Gottman Relationship Institute, and honored as Washington State Psychologist of the Year.  See More
Our Team Our Team

Meet the people who work together to bring you the programs, products and services based on the Gottmans' research, wisdom and clinical expertise.

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The Art & Science of Lovemaking
An all new  online video experience you can watch from the privacy of your home.  Learn how to make sex more intimate, personal and meaningful for both of you. 
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Personal workshop in a box!
The acclaimed, research-based program that's helped thousands of couples
Dr. John Gottman's 40 years of scientific studies and Dr. Julie Gottman's clinical expertise combine into The Art & Science of Love -  one powerful program you can do at home with your partner.  Build the relationship you've been longing for with our proven tools and exercises!     
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