Dr. Patrick J. Hart
Behavioral Marital Therapy: Seattle Bellevue
Couples Counselor and Family Relationship Counseling

The Work of Neil Jacobson: Behavioral Couples Therapy
In the marital therapy area, Professor Neil Jacobson has written a most definitive book on behavioral couple therapy (Jacobson & Margolin, 1979) and conducted some of the best clinical trials on this treatment, trials that provided a substantial part of the empirical basis on which this treatment has been categorized as a helpful and "efficacious and specific treatment."  However, dissatisfied with the magnitude of change brought about by this treatment, Dr. Jacomson worked to develop what he believed was a more truly behavioral and more powerful treatment, Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy (Jacobson & Christensen, 1996).


The Gottman Institute: Researching and Restoring Relationships
"The Gottman Institute, co-founded by Drs. John and Julie Schwartz Gottman, has two major functions. The Institute helps couples directly, and it provides state-of-the-art training to mental health professionals and other health care providers. The Gottman Institute applies leading-edge research on marriage in a practical, down-to-earth therapy and trains therapists committed to helping couples. No other approach to couples education and therapy has relied on such intensive, detailed, and long-term scientific study of why marriages succeed or fail."


The Family & Marriage Counseling Directory

How to Find a Couples Counselor

Seattle Counselor: Marital Therapy

Marriage and Family Therapy: Methods

Relationship Counseling : Struggling in Seattle?

Marriage Counseling Alternatives:
Harmonize Your Marriage: eHarmony provides an online alternative to marriage counseling for couples wanting to achieve healthier and happier marriages.

The Codependency Model: Help for "Codependent" Relationships