Small Things Often Behavior Tracking for Couples Therapy

Small Things Often is a couples-therapy between-session behavior practice and tracking tool for practitioners. It helps therapists assign small, concrete, repeatable positive relationship behaviors and review whether partners are logging a pattern over time.

Gottman Method Couples TherapyLogBetween-session monitoringProgress reviewBehavior changeInterpersonal relationshipsCouples

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Tool guide

Learn more about this tool

Use this background section to understand when the tool fits, how practitioners use it, and what to consider before sharing it with clients.

Configurable Behavior Set

The practitioner-defined behavior set is central because it determines what partners log and what can be compared over time.

Pattern Review

The review emphasizes repeated information: occurrences, gaps, and whether the pattern appears increasing, steady, fading, or insufficient to judge.

Result Boundaries

The tool does not infer motivation, relationship quality, or therapeutic success from the logs.

Can the practitioner define the behaviors?

Yes. The behavior set is a supported configuration and is saved with the tool setup.

Does the tool score relationship warmth?

No. It tracks logged behavior frequency and gaps but does not score relationship health or warmth.

What if no one logs anything?

The review shows unavailable or non-engagement data without inferring the reason.

What carries over after saving?

The tool itself, behavior set, and review-period configuration carry over. Fictional demo logs do not become real client data.