The method & the science behind it.
Chorus turns the frameworks couples therapists trust into a private communication coach on each of your phones — helping you take in what your partner said and refine your reply before you send it, with safety guardrails around every conversation and optional therapist oversight when your couple chooses it. Here is exactly how it works, and where its limits are.
The frameworks Chorus is built on.
Chorus doesn't invent its own theory of relationships. It draws on decades of clinical research and the methods practicing therapists use every day.
The Gottman Method
Grounded in long-term research on what predicts whether relationships last. It helps your coach spot the patterns that erode trust and nudge you toward repair.
Emotionally Focused Therapy
EFT looks beneath the argument to the attachment need driving it. It guides your coach to surface the softer feeling under the heat — both in what you heard and in what you're about to say — so each of you can actually be heard.
Nonviolent Communication
NVC turns blame into a clear request. It shapes how Chorus helps you name an observation, a feeling, and a need — without the other person going on the defensive.
Attachment theory
The science of how we bond and seek safety. It gives Chorus a way to read why a small moment can feel so threatening — and how to help you both feel secure again.
The right method for the moment — not one bot's guess.
A single chatbot gives you a single opinion. Chorus is different. For each moment in your conversation, your private coach selects the framework that fits — helping you take in what your partner just said, or reshaping a harsh reply into a clear one before you send it.
That is the trust mechanism: guidance you can rely on is the agreement of many proven approaches, not the confidence of one. When the methods converge on the same next step, you can feel the difference.
Guardrails on every conversation.
Chorus is built to stay in its lane. The same guardrails run in the background of every conversation — inside each partner's private coaching — whether a therapist is watching or not.
What Chorus will always do
- Watch for signs of real distress and point you to human help, like 988 and the National Domestic Violence Hotline
- Step back from coaching when a moment is beyond its scope — it's an aid, not a crisis service, and won't contact authorities for you
- Never diagnose, label, or treat a condition
- Stay in scope: relationship communication, not clinical care
- Coach each of you fairly and non-blaming — never taking sides against your partner
- Defer to licensed care whenever a moment calls for it
Built with licensed therapists, not just engineers.
Chorus is designed and reviewed with licensed couples therapists serving as clinical advisors. They shape how the frameworks are applied, pressure-test the guardrails, and review the guidance Chorus gives.
An unverified method becomes a credential
Every part of how Chorus listens and responds passes through clinicians who do this work for a living. Their role is ongoing, not a one-time sign-off.
- Licensed couples therapists guide the clinical design
- Advisors review guidance quality and the guardrails
- Advisor names published with permission as the panel grows
Your relationship is yours.
What you say to each other stays between you. Privacy isn't a setting in Chorus — it's the default, on every plan.
Encrypted
Conversations are encrypted in transit and at rest, so your words are protected from the moment you write them.
Confidential
Your shared session belongs to both of you; your per-partner coaching is yours alone and never posts into the thread. Solo prep stays private from your partner — an overseeing therapist can review it to help you unless you mark it My Eyes Only.
Never trains models
Your conversations are never used to train AI models. Full stop — that is a pledge, not a toggle.
What Chorus is not.
Being clear about the edges is part of being trustworthy. Chorus is a powerful tool for everyday connection — and there are things it is not built to do.
Where Chorus stops
- Not a medical device, and not a diagnosis
- Not a replacement for therapy or a licensed clinician
- Not a crisis or emergency service — call local emergency help in danger
- Not a fit for abuse situations, which need specialist human support
If you're working with a therapist, Chorus is meant to sit alongside that care — not stand in for it.
Trustworthy guidance, built in the open.
See the method at work in a real conversation — or take a closer look at the clinical and oversight side.