Who We Are

Introducing Donna Corbo:

Donna Corbo is a Certified Gottman Educator & consultant that has been facilitating Bringing Baby Home & Beyond Workshops since 2005. A Certified Gottmen Educator is a professional who successfully completed an intensive training designed by the Relationship Research Institute led by the Gottmans. A Certification Exam tested knowledge and comprehension of the material and insured her accurate understanding of the content. In addition, she was required to “teach” peers who insured quality presentation of the topics covered in this program. She also specializes in breast feeding support, infant massage, emotional intelligence guidance, and helping people deepen their inter-personal connections through mind, body & spirit work.

Donna Corbo, Life Connections founder, Life.Connections@yahoo.com, 651-208-0550

Introducing Dr. John Gottman

John M. Gottman, PhD is the Executive Director of the Relationship Research Institute, a non-profit research institute dedicated to marriage, family and child developmental research. He is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Washington in Seattle and is one of the leading research scientists in the world on marriage, relationships and family. Dr. Gottman is the author of over 130 journal articles and has authored, coauthored or edited over 30 books, including “Why Marriages Succeed or Fail,” “The Heart of Parenting: Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child,” (Simon and Schuster), “What Predicts Divorce?” (L. Erlbaum Assoc.), “The Marriage Clinic” (W.W. Norton); “The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work,”, “The Mathematics of Marriage, Dynamic Non-linear Models,” (MIT Press), and “10 Lessons to Transform Your Marriage”. 

Dr. Gottman has conducted seminars, lectures and workshops throughout the world for his academic colleagues in the field of psychology and family relations. He has also appeared on numerous radio and television programs such as 20/20, Dateline NBC, Good Morning America, Eye to Eye, NPR’s Fresh Air, BBC and Discovery Channel documentaries, among others.

Dr. Gottman and his wife, Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman are the founding co-directors of The Gottman Institute in Seattle, Washington.

Introducing Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman

Julie Schwartz Gottman, PhD is the Clinical Director for both The Gottman Institute and the Relationship Research Institute in Seattle, Washington, and is Director of The Gottman Institute’s Relationship Clinic. In private practice, she specializes in work with individuals and couples who suffer from marital distress, childhood abuse, post-traumatic stress disorder, or cancer. In 2002, she was awarded the Distinguished Psychologist of the Year by the Washington State Psychological Association.

Together with The Gottman Institute co-founder and husband Dr. John Gottman, she conducts the Gottman Method Marital Therapy, A Research Based Approach workshop, Advanced Study and Certification training programs, as well as The Art and Science of Love weekend workshops for couples. For the Relationship Research Institute, she is developing the curriculum for the Bringing Baby Home Workshop Leaders training program. She is co-author and editor for the upcoming book, The Marriage Clinic Case Book (Norton).

She has been a frequent guest on radio and TV talk shows throughout the United States and Canada, and has served as a consultant for several national TV programs including ABC’s 20/20 and is featured in Discovery Health Channel’s relationship series, “The Love Lab.”