Therapist Resources
How Therapists Use Lasting
8 practical ways real therapists use Lasting with clients
Select a Goal.
Do your clients have any of these goals? See how therapists use Lasting to help.
- Build emotional connection
See example→ - Overcome low sexual desire
See example→ - Communicate more openly (especially about emotions)
See example→ - Manage conflict better
See example→ - Rebuild trust
See example→ - Process an infidelity
See example→ - Growing appreciation
See example→ - Preparing for commitment
See example→
1. Build emotional connection
Case: A client wants to be more mindful of their partner and build connection throughout the week. (Note: this is our most common therapist application)
Homework: Book a weekly, 1-hour meeting to do Lasting sessions with your partner. Start with the Foundations series and then progress to your recommended focus areas together.
Why This Works: Lasting was designed to nurture emotional connection by helping partners identify and meet each other’s emotional needs. 94% of our couples report greater connection.
2. Overcome low sexual desire
Case: A client wants help rekindling passion throughout the week.
Homework: Take the Sexual Desire series. 1-2 sessions per week.
Why This Works: This series helps couples understand each other’s desire style, accelerators, and brakes and gently brokers conversations about sex throughout the week. 89% feel more prepared to increase their level of sexual desire.
3. Communicate more openly
Case: A client wants to practice healthy communication and have more intentional conversations.
Homework: Take the Communication series. 1-2 sessions per week. Additionally, go to the Library tab and enable “Today’s Reflection,” which provides you with daily conversation-starters so that you can practice.
Why This Works: The Communication series helps clients unpack their emotional histories for each other, and Today’s Reflection will help them practice openness every day. 91% report feeling more prepared to communicate in healthy ways!
4. Manage conflict better
Case: Clients want to de-escalate conflict and learn how to manage perpetual conflicts.
Homework: Identify a perpetual conflict and take the Conflict series. 1-2 sessions per week.
Why It Works: This series helps couples process a perpetual conflict and reach a compromise for a specific incident. 92% report feeling more prepared to begin, work through, and repair a conflict.
5. Rebuild trust
Case: A client feels that trust is low, broken, or damaged due to the accumulation of small incidents over time.
Homework: Take the Trust series. 1-2 sessions per week.
Why It Works: Through a process of guided questions and reflections, partners identify how trust is damaged and how to rebuild it. 85% feel more prepared to strengthen trust levels.
6. Process an infidelity
Case: A client has been cheated on, and you want to give them a tool to help them process their emotions from week to week.
Homework: Take the Infidelity series. 1-2 sessions per week. Additionally, on the Library tab, turn on the “name emotions” reminder to get a daily prompt to process your emotional world.
Why This Works: The infidelity series can help clients process difficult emotions through a guided journaling process. 89% feel better equipped to pursue personal healing after an infidelity.
7. Growing appreciation
Case: Client is taking responsibility for their contempt and wants to build a culture of appreciation.
Homework: Take the Appreciation series. 1-2 sessions per week.
Why It Works: Through this series the client learns how to increase appreciation which is the antidote to contempt. 93% report feeling more prepared to build an appreciation habit in their relationships.
8. Preparing for commitment
Case: A client wants to initiate meaningful conversations with their partner as they become more committed to one another.
Homework: Take the Premarital series. 1-2 sessions per week.
Why It Works: Through structured questions and reflection exercises the client identifies their views on important relationship topics and begins the ongoing conversations that continue throughout a committed relationship. 94% feel more prepared to make a commitment to their partner.
Here’s the general process:
- Identify the client’s goal. Answer the question: what’s my clients goal in-session, and how can out-of-session work complement what we’re doing?
- Assign “homework” to help.
Lasting guides clients through a process of learning and journaling, then provides a comparison so partners can visualize each other’s thoughts and feelings. Clients can also enable on notifications, so their phones can nudge them to practice specific things during the week.