Gottman Love Lab – Couples Assessment Tool

Get Straight to the Point with Gottman’s Love Lab — A Supercharged Assessment Process for Goal-Oriented Couples

Introducing the Gottman Love Lab, a Groundbreaking Tool for Couples

Elaine Korngold, LPC, is honored to be one of a select group of therapists worldwide authorized to offer the Gottman Love Lab to her couples. The Gottman Love Lab is a state-of-the-art assessment tool that replicates the original “Love Lab” Dr. John Gottman established over his decades of research on couples counseling.

No Time Wasted

The Gottman Method stands out compared to other couples counseling approaches because of its in-depth assessment process. The Gottman Method sets a framework at the outset of couples therapy to fully understand the relationship strengths and challenges each couple faces. Rather than limping along in weekly therapy with no aim or direction, the Gottman Method’s assessment process can quickly target treatment for each couple’s unique needs.

Enhanced Gottman Relationship Checkup

In the premier Love Lab experience, the couple completes a confidential questionnaire, “Enhanced Gottman Relationship Checkup.” This questionnaire covers friendship, intimacy, how well the partners know each other, how they manage emotions in conflict, shared values and goals, and what gives their relationships meaning. These categories were targeted specifically because of Dr. Gottman’s research showing their long-term impact on relationship functioning.

Utilize Video Recording To Capture Real-Time Data

When the questionnaires are complete, the couple then continues with a groundbreaking Love Lab video evaluation and rating process. This is unique in that it offers real-time insight into relationship patterns. Clients record two short videos, one about a recent event and one about a conflict. The recordings can be completed in the comfort and privacy of clients’ homes and then uploaded to a secure portal, or the therapist can assist with recording during a session. During the recordings, clients obtain access to state-of-the-art technology based on the methodology and the data Dr. Gottman collected in his original research.

After creating the videos, each partner then watches them and rates how they felt about their interactions at the time using a Rating Dial. Together with the videos, this information is used to gain data on the couple’s emotions and conflict styles.

Sample Chart (not real data): Friendship and Intimacy Pattern

Build A More Powerful Treatment Plan

The data collected from the questionnaires, videos, and the couples’ ratings generates a state-of-the-art report that pinpoints:

  • The degree of positivity or negativity in the relationship and its impact on friendship and intimacy;
  • If the couple can repair conflicts or if they are stuck in power struggles;
  • If couple’s repair attempts are working or failing;
  • The impact of negativity from betrayals in the relationship;
  • The ratio of positivity to negativity and impact on conflict discussions; and
  • A prediction of how positivity or negativity will affect the future of the relationship.
This invaluable information becomes the basis for the couple’s treatment plan. The therapist will then apply research-backed therapeutic exercises that target the custom issues facing each couple.

Research-Backed, Results Driven

Couples will receive a detailed explanation of the findings from the assessment, as well as a customized treatment plan from the therapist. This approach pinpoints couple’s strengths and challenges; assesses the strength of the couple’s bond, the impact of positivity and negativity on conflict, friendship, intimacy, and the stability of the relationship overall, and suggests research-backed therapeutic exercises.

Love Lab Relationship Analysis with Elaine Korngold

I completed extensive post-graduate training in Gottman Method Couples Therapy: Levels 1, 2, and 3, ‘Treating Affairs and Trauma’, and ‘Treating Couples in Addiction Recovery’. I engage with a Senior Gottman Method trainer in a monthly consultation group to review cases and continue learning. I am one of the select group of clinicians authorized to share the premier Gottman Love Lab tools with my clients. My experience and other trainings are described here.

Please contact me if you would like to enrich your monogamous relationship. Both partners need to be available for our consultation. Gottman Method assessment is a good way to start evaluating where you are at as a couple today and what is needed for you to meet your relationship hopes.