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Couples & relationships

Gottman, EFT, and the repair-work that makes a marriage stick.

Modality overviews, couples-distress guidance, and the worksheets clinicians most often use between sessions — soft start-ups, repair attempts, bids, and the Four Horsemen.

2 modalities1 disorders9 worksheets2 cases2 populations1 client explainers

Modalities

The therapies most relevant to this topic.

Disorders

First-line picks and clinical guidance for the presentations under this topic.

Couples Distress

Negative cycles, contempt, withdrawal, or attachment injuries between partners.

Two strongly evidence-based approaches dominate couples therapy. They are largely complementary — EFT goes deeper into attachment emotion, Gottman provides structured assessment and skill-building.

First-line:EFT · Gottman

Worksheets

Free, printable, Quick-Send to clients.

For clients

Plain-language explainers you can share or open together in session.

Worked cases

Anonymized vignettes with formulation across 2–3 modalities.

Populations

What changes when you sit with this population.

How-to

Step-by-step walkthroughs.