16 Ultimate Gottman Couples Counselling Concepts
When couples decide to embark on couples counselling, they often hear about a method of counselling called Gottman Couples Counselling.
Dr. John and Julie Gottman are world-renowned for their work on marriage stability and divorce prediction based on forty years of research with thousands of couples. John is the author or co-author of over 200 published academic articles and more than 40 books.
His focus is a scientifically based research approach and aims to assist couples to improve communication and increase their level of understanding, empathy, connectedness, intimacy and interpersonal growth by identifying and addressing the defences that prevent effective communication. Observation and analysis of couple conflict is a key intervention to disarm conflicting verbal communication.
