Eight couples-native templates, editable from day one.

Ongoing weekly or biweekly couples sessions once the relationship is established. Reach for DAP when you want a compact dyadic record that still captures per-partner mental status without the medical-chart formality of SOAP. Pairs well with Gottman, EFT, or IBCT as your framework layer.

Integrated care settings — primary care, behavioral health consults, or any record shared with prescribers. Use SOAP when interdisciplinary readability and medical-chart conventions matter more than dyadic-specific structure. Also appropriate when billing or auditors expect a familiar four-block format.

Ongoing sessions with couples you are treating in Gottman Method Couples Therapy. Especially useful in Sound Relationship House phases where you are tracking conflict behavior over time and want a consistent lens for comparing sessions. Skip it for early intakes where the framework has not yet been introduced.

Ongoing EFT stage-by-stage work — especially valuable in Stage 1 de-escalation when you need to document the cycle emerging and in Stage 2 when you are tracking withdrawer re-engagement and pursuer softening. Notes become a map of the couple's movement through the EFT tango.

Ongoing IBCT sessions where you need to hold acceptance and change interventions in the same frame. Particularly helpful when the couple's theme centers on irreconcilable differences and you are moving between empathic joining, unified detachment, and tolerance-building. Less useful for purely crisis or intake work.

The first one to two sessions with a new couple, where you are establishing baseline relationship history, per-partner background, and initial formulation before ongoing DAP or framework notes take over. Also appropriate when re-opening a case after a long hiatus where a fresh intake is clinically warranted.

The final planned session — mutual agreement to end, goals met, referral out, or a natural pause. Captures course of treatment, gains the couple is leaving with, and aftercare so the record reads cleanly if the couple returns or requests records later. Also used for unilateral termination when you need a clean closure note.

Any session where acute risk surfaces — disclosure of intimate partner violence, suicidal or homicidal ideation, or a safety event between sessions. Use it instead of your usual template so the IPV/SI/HI screens, capacity assessment, safety plan, and dispositions are all documented in one place. Return to your regular template next session.