Save time while doing more for each client. Be the professional they can't stop talking about.
From relationship health to divorce recovery and everything in between, Partner Lab gives you the research-based tools to work faster, go deeper, and build a irreplaceable practice that delivers life-changing client outcomes.
Every tool cites peer-reviewed research. Not advice. Not consensus. Not opinion.
We do the research so you (and your clients) don't have to.
The latest relationship science can help people make better decisions about love, marriage, divorce, custody, conflict, money, and repair.
But most clients will never read it.
Most professionals barely have time to translate it.
And while evidence is moving through journals, trainings, and practice adoption, your clients are moving through panic, fear, betrayal, ambivalence, and confusion in private on their phone.
They are making decisions now.
AI did not create that urgency. It exploited it.
It gives clients instant language, instant labels, instant scripts, and instant certainty in the dark of the night — whether or not the answer is clinically sound, legally safe, financially wise, or grounded in real evidence.
For family law attorneys, divorce coaches, therapists, counselors, financial advisors, and CDFAs, Partner Lab gives your expertise a way to show up earlier in a digital tool that can be accessed anywhere, anytime.
Studies have shown that most people contemplate divorce or separation for 1–3 years before taking any action.
Hawkins & Fackrell, 2010; Doherty & Harris, 2017Nearly half of U.S. adults report using AI chatbots.
Pew Research Center, 2024Early relationship studies began around 1938. We now have data that span decades across thousands of couples.
Bradbury & Karney, 2010; Gottman & Levenson, 1992The average time between a clinical finding being published and reaching routine practice is 17 years.
Morris et al., 2011; Balas & Boren, 2000Only about 14% of research findings are ever translated into clinical or practical use.
Balas & Boren, 2000; Westfall et al., 2007 — JAMAPartner Lab helps your expertise show up before, between, and beyond the moments clients are ready to talk.
"I was stuck in a dysfunctional relationship for more years than I care to admit. Those are years I can't get back. But you know what I can do? Use my research expertise and my Ph.D. to help others get the relationship clarity that they deserve."
— Dr. Merideth Thompson, PhDBuilt by someone who actually does the research.
Partner Lab is founded and led by Dr. Merideth Thompson, PhD who has been published over 70+ times cited more than 5,400 times, in peer-reviewed research on relationships, conflict, and well-being. She holds a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University, is a Full Professor of Management at Utah State University, and her work has been ,quoted by the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, and ABC News.,
At Partner Lab, she's created the team, platform, and processes to do something the academic world rarely does: take the insights buried in thousands of peer-reviewed papers that most people will never read, and turn them into practical, accessible tools that practitioners and couples can actually use
Published inTools to more effectively navigate people through love, loss, and what comes next.
While you're neck deep in serving clients and running your practice, we build tools based on the latest research that you don't have time to dive into.
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