Gottman Method Level 1
Bridging the Couples Chasm

A Workshop for Clinicians and Anyone Wanting to Work With Couples Using the Gottman Method of Couples Therapy

May 15–16, 2026 | Birmingham, AL or Online Live | $475

I offer this training both in person at our Birmingham offices and online via live conferencing technology—designed to keep both online and in-office participants collaborative and fully included in the experience. You'll learn from someone who applies the Gottman Method in all clinical couples work and lives it out personally with her husband, who is also a therapist trained through Level 3 of Gottman Method.

This training reviews Dr. Gottman's four decades of research on what makes marriages succeed or fail and teaches a therapy that helps troubled marriages. You'll gain a wealth of information about couples dynamics, marital assessment, couples exercises, and therapeutic interventions—all materials you can use immediately in your private practice.

Your Trainer

Teresa Prince, LPC,
Certified Gottman Therapist

I am a fully Certified Gottman Therapist who applies this work with couples ranging from pre-engagement to high conflict and those seeking healing after infidelity and affair recovery.

Learning Objectives

1. Participants will summarize the research that allows us to predict future relationship stability.

2. Participants will describe the seven levels of the Sound Relationship House theory.

3. Participants will organize a couple's therapy assessment using elements of the couple's narrative, the Oral History Interview, written questionnaires, observations of conflict and individual interviews.

4. Participants will describe two interventions to help strengthen a couple's conflict management.

5. Participants will describe two interventions to enhance a couple's friendship system.

6. Participants will describe two interventions to explore a couple's system of shared meaning.

7. Participants will explain why physiological self-soothing is essential for a healthy relationship.

8. Participants will create a therapeutic contract with a couple, discuss and decide on goals and include a summary of the couples strengths and areas that need improvement.

9. Participants will describe the Philosophy of Therapy including assumptions, overview of techniques, and goals of therapy.

10. Participants will describe the Rapoport Intervention and when to use it.

11. Participants will describe the process of therapy, including the structure of a session.

Also Included with Registration

Included in the registration price for this Live Training Event is FULL ACCESS to the Gottman Level 1 Online Course!

• 11 hours of video from a live workshop conducted by Drs. John and Julie Gottman

• 352-page digital Level 1 Clinical Training Manual PDF which contains the core Gottman Method Couples Therapy assessments, interventions, and references discussed in training videos

• 63-page PDF of lecture slides

• Gottman Method Couples Therapy Level 1 Training Certificate of Completion from the Gottman Institute

• ONGOING learning cohort for all attendees (monthly) to ask questions and continue to develop Gottman skills

Interested in Gottman Level 1 Training?
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