Dr. John Gottman 

Co-founder, Gottman Institute 

John Gottman, PhD, was voted one of the Top 10 Most Influential Therapists of the past quarter century and was recently honored with the 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award by the Psychotherapy Networker. Dr. Gottman is a Professor Emeritus in Psychology at the University of Washington. He is known for his work on marital stability and relationship analysis through scientific direct observations, self-report and physiology, many of which were published in peer-reviewed literature. He is the author or co-author of over 200 published academic articles and more than 45 books, including the bestselling The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work; What Makes Love Last; The Relationship Cure; Why Marriages Succeed or Fail; The Science of Trust; Raising An Emotionally Intelligent Child; The Mathematics of Marriage; The Science of Couples and Family Therapy; Principia Amoris, among many others. He is the co-founder of The Gottman Institute and Affective Software, Inc. Affective Software has created a tele-therapy Gottman Love Lab Relationship Assessment combined with a Gottman Relationship Builder technology that will live on cell phones, computers, and tablets to assist therapists in couples therapy and offer direct relationship building services directly to couples.