[4] Julie Schwartz Gottman began her professional career while at college, where she helped establish a counseling center for rape survivors, combat veterans, and others in need.

She later specialized in working with low-income clients, incest and sexual assault survivors, combat veterans, and cancer patients and their families.

No significant differences were found in sexual orientation, gender identity, or social adjustment between daughters either raised by lesbian or heterosexual mothers.

As a result of this research, she has served as an expert witness in lesbian mothers' court custody disputes, and her practice includes seeing women and men of any sexual orientations.

[15] She has also taught in countries worldwide, including Turkey, South Korea, Japan, Australia, Norway, Iceland, Israel, Austria, and New Zealand.

[16] Together with John Gottman, she has presented The Art and Science of Love weekend workshop to thousands of couples in Seattle, Washington and has trained more than 100,000 clinicians worldwide in Gottman Method Couples Therapy, a science-based approach that aims to increase respect, affection, and closeness, manage conflict, generate greater understanding, and create shared meaning in relationships.

In 2002, the Washington State Psychological Association (WSPA) honored Julie Schwartz Gottman with The Distinguished Psychologist of the Year Award.