The science behind every hellp match

The relationship between you and your client is the strongest predictor of outcomes we have. Here's the research behind how we measure fit, and what it means for the caseload you build.

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The therapeutic alliance

Our matching is built on decades of research into what actually makes therapy work. Across hundreds of studies, one finding holds up again and again: it isn't the specific technique or years of experience that drives the most change, it's the quality of the relationship between therapist and client. That therapeutic alliance (therapist-client fit) is the number one predictor of therapeutic outcomes.

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The Model

How we strengthen the alliance: Tripartite Model

Psychotherapy research points to three ingredients that make the therapeutic alliance stronger. We assess them throughout the client-therapist journey, so that you’re set up for success with your clients.

Goal Agreement

You and your client are on the same page about what you're working toward and what progress should look like.

How we improve this:

  • Intake questionnaire helps identify clinical and personal targets.
  • Coming soon: Targeted psychoeducational resources.

The “Dyadic Fit” approach

Research has shown that there are 2 critical psychological and interpersonal components of a successful clinical pairing. When those baseline traits line up well, clients tend to see faster progress and a sturdier working relationship.

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Expectations Matching

When clients receive a treatment that explicitly matches their clinical preferences, they have a 58% higher chance of experiencing greater clinical improvement.

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Personality Alignment

We use the Five-Factor Model, the most reliable, empirically backed framework for understanding human personality, to assess and map traits for optimal clinical pairs. Openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism

What this means for your practice

We engineer our matching to ensure that you have clients with optimal personality convergence, client-therapist fit on preferences and goal agreement. This means vastly superior clinical results, faster symptom reduction, and a much stronger, more resilient therapeutic bond.

50% less

likely to prematurely drop out of therapy

Longer

overall client retention rates

Stronger

positive client therapeutic outcomes

Practice on the evidence today.

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