Julie Schwartz Gottman
Born: April 07, 1951 – Portland, Oregon, United States
Julie Schwartz Gottman is a clinical psychologist and relationship educator who co-founded The Gottman Institute and helped develop its couples-therapy training and Art & Science of Love workshops. ((https://www.gottman.com/about/john-julie-gottman/)) She co-authored bestselling relationship books including Eight Dates, The Love Prescription, and Fight Right, and received Washington State Psychologist of the Year and Psychotherapy Networker lifetime achievement honors. ((https://www.gottman.com/about/john-julie-gottman/))
Biography & Author's Journey
Julie Schwartz Gottman built her career at the intersection of clinical psychology, public education, and relationship science. Trained first in psychology and community mental health counseling and later in clinical psychology, she entered the field with a practical focus on people in crisis; biographical accounts of her early career also note time in India and Nepal and work that kept her close to trauma, addiction, and family distress. That grounding in lived difficulty, rather than in abstract theory alone, shaped the concerns that would define her later work. A major turning point came with her long collaboration with John Gottman and, in 1996, the founding of The Gottman Institute, where she serves as co-founder and president. ((https://practiceofthepractice.com/dr-julie-schwartz-gottman-on-eight-dates-essential-conversations-for-a-lifetime-of-love-pop-349/))
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"TIME called Julie Schwartz Gottman and John Gottman "the nation’s leading marriage researchers and educators."
— TIME
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— Daniel Siegel
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