Behavioral Psychology Technology
Attachment Informed Matching
While other apps match based on superficial preferences, Wouch's proprietary algorithm uses attachment theory, polyvagal theory, and trauma-informed psychology to connect people whose nervous systems can co-regulate. We don't just match profiles we match healing potentials. Users complete scientifically-validated assessments that reveal their attachment style, emotional regulation patterns, and readiness for secure love. Our AI then connects people whose attachment dynamics support mutual growth toward security, not codependency.
Year :
Beta Testing & Algorithm Refinement
Industry :
Relationship Compatibility Assessment
Client :
Attachment Theory, Polyvagal Theory, Neuroscience
Project Duration :
9-month clinical validation study in progress
Beyond Surface Compatibility: The Neuroscience of Lasting Love
(IP-Protected Version)
The Fundamental Flaw: Current dating algorithms match people based on superficial factors—shared interests, physical proximity, demographic similarity. But research reveals that 67% of relationship failures stem from attachment incompatibility, not mismatched hobbies or different zip codes.
Revolutionary Approach: Wouch introduces the first dating platform built on attachment science and nervous system compatibility. Instead of matching profiles, we match healing potential. Instead of optimizing for initial attraction, we optimize for long-term emotional safety and secure love development.
The Attachment Crisis: Dr. Amir Levine's research shows that 40% of adults have insecure attachment patterns, yet no dating platform considers this in matching. This creates a massive problem: anxiously attached individuals repeatedly match with avoidant partners, recreating childhood wounds instead of healing them.
Scientific Foundation: Our matching philosophy integrates groundbreaking research from:
Dr. John Bowlby's attachment theory: How early relationships shape adult love patterns
Dr. Mary Ainsworth's attachment styles: Secure, anxious, avoidant, and disorganized patterns in adult relationships
Dr. Sue Johnson's EFT research: How attachment styles interact in couple dynamics
Dr. Stephen Porges' polyvagal theory: Nervous system compatibility and co-regulation potential
Market Disruption Potential: We're creating the first scientifically defensible matching system that predicts relationship success based on psychological compatibility rather than surface preferences. This represents a fundamental shift from entertainment-focused to outcome-focused relationship technology.
Investment Opportunity: Attachment-informed matching creates defensible competitive advantage through patent-pending algorithms based on decades of psychological research, positioning Wouch as category leader in evidence-based relationship technology.
Nervous System Compatibility: The Missing Piece of Relationship Success
The Hidden Factor: Research proves that successful relationships require nervous system co-regulation—the ability of partners to mutually calm and support each other's emotional states. Yet no dating platform has ever considered this crucial compatibility factor.
Polyvagal Theory Application: Dr. Stephen Porges' groundbreaking research reveals that our autonomic nervous system determines how we respond to relationships. Some nervous system combinations create mutual regulation and safety, while others create chronic activation and stress.
Advanced Compatibility Framework:
Safety Assessment Integration: Our platform evaluates how potential partners' presence affects each other's nervous system responses, prioritizing matches that create emotional safety rather than activation.
Regulation Pattern Analysis: Assessment of how individuals manage stress, process emotions, and recover from conflict—factors that determine whether partnerships will be healing or retraumatizing.
Co-Regulation Potential Evaluation: Analysis of whether potential partners possess the emotional skills and capacity to support each other's nervous system regulation during challenging times.
Attachment Security Progression: Matching individuals whose attachment styles and healing stages can support mutual movement toward security rather than reinforcing insecure patterns.
Research Applications: This nervous system compatibility approach enables groundbreaking research into what creates emotionally sustainable relationships, advancing understanding of human connection at neurobiological levels.
Clinical Validation Framework: We're establishing partnerships with trauma-informed therapists and attachment specialists to validate our compatibility assessments and ensure clinical accuracy in our matching protocols.
Therapeutic Integration: Mental health professionals can utilize our compatibility insights to better understand client relationship patterns and support healthier partner selection processes.
Long-Term Impact Measurement: By tracking nervous system compatibility outcomes over time, we're developing unprecedented insights into what creates lasting emotional safety in relationships.
Healing-Centered Matching: Transforming Wounds into Wisdom
Paradigm Revolution: Traditional dating focuses on finding someone who accepts your wounds. Wouch focuses on finding someone who supports your healing. This fundamental shift transforms dating from wound management to growth facilitation.
Trauma-Informed Compatibility Assessment:
Healing Stage Synchronization: Our matching considers where individuals are in their trauma recovery journey, connecting people whose healing processes can complement rather than trigger each other.
Resilience Factor Integration: Analysis of emotional regulation skills, support system strength, and healing capacity to ensure matches support mutual growth rather than codependency.
Trigger Awareness Matching: Understanding of how different trauma histories and attachment wounds interact, prioritizing connections that minimize retraumatization risk while maximizing healing potential.
Growth-Oriented Selection: Matching individuals whose relationship goals align with personal development, emotional healing, and conscious partnership creation rather than just companionship or entertainment.
Professional Insight Integration: Framework for incorporating input from users' mental health providers (with consent) to ensure matching supports therapeutic goals and healing progress.
Post-Traumatic Growth Facilitation: Our matching prioritizes connections that can support post-traumatic growth—the positive psychological change that can emerge from working through difficult experiences with proper support.
Research Foundation: This healing-centered approach is grounded in Dr. Judith Herman's trauma recovery research, Dr. Richard Tedeschi's post-traumatic growth studies, and emerging research on relationships as healing environments.
Clinical Partnership Opportunities: Mental health professionals can collaborate with our platform to support client healing through conscious relationship development, creating new therapeutic modalities and practice opportunities.
Secure Attachment Acceleration: Creating Love That Lasts
The Ultimate Goal: Wouch's matching system is designed to help users develop "earned security" the ability to create secure attachment through healing relationships, regardless of childhood attachment experiences.
Earned Security Development Framework:
Security-Supporting Matches: Prioritizing connections with individuals who possess the emotional availability, consistency, and attunement skills necessary to support attachment healing in partners.
Attachment Repair Through Relationship: Utilizing research showing that secure relationships can literally rewire insecure attachment patterns, our matching facilitates connections with healing potential.
Mutual Growth Optimization: Matching individuals whose attachment healing journeys can support each other's movement toward security, creating relationships that heal rather than perpetuate wounds.
Emotional Availability Assessment: Evaluation of potential partners' capacity for emotional presence, responsiveness, and consistent support the core components of secure attachment according to research.
Research Applications: This focus on earned security enables longitudinal research into how relationships can facilitate attachment healing, potentially advancing therapeutic understanding of attachment repair.
Clinical Integration Potential: Our secure attachment focus creates opportunities for collaboration with attachment-focused therapists, EFT practitioners, and trauma specialists supporting client relationship development.
Long-Term Outcome Focus: Unlike platforms that optimize for initial chemistry, our matching prioritizes factors research shows predict relationship longevity and satisfaction over years and decades.
Population Health Impact: By facilitating secure attachment development, our platform potentially impacts not just individual relationships but community wellbeing, family stability, and intergenerational trauma healing.
Competitive Differentiation: This evidence-based approach to attachment security creates unprecedented competitive advantage in dating technology, with applications extending beyond dating into relationship therapy and family wellness.
Innovation Framework:
Science-Based Matching: All algorithms grounded in peer-reviewed attachment research
Healing-Oriented Design: Technology that supports psychological growth and emotional safety
Clinical Validation: Professional oversight ensuring therapeutic accuracy and ethical implementation
Long-Term Success Focus: Optimization for lasting love rather than short-term engagement
Research Advancement: Data insights contribute to scientific understanding of human attachment
Market Positioning: First attachment-informed dating platform represents category-defining innovation with defensible competitive advantage, multiple revenue streams, and massive social impact potential.
This technology doesn't just help people find partners it helps them develop the capacity for secure, lasting love that transforms lives, families, and communities.
More Projects
Behavioral Psychology Technology
Attachment Informed Matching
While other apps match based on superficial preferences, Wouch's proprietary algorithm uses attachment theory, polyvagal theory, and trauma-informed psychology to connect people whose nervous systems can co-regulate. We don't just match profiles we match healing potentials. Users complete scientifically-validated assessments that reveal their attachment style, emotional regulation patterns, and readiness for secure love. Our AI then connects people whose attachment dynamics support mutual growth toward security, not codependency.
Year :
Beta Testing & Algorithm Refinement
Industry :
Relationship Compatibility Assessment
Client :
Attachment Theory, Polyvagal Theory, Neuroscience
Project Duration :
9-month clinical validation study in progress
Beyond Surface Compatibility: The Neuroscience of Lasting Love
(IP-Protected Version)
The Fundamental Flaw: Current dating algorithms match people based on superficial factors—shared interests, physical proximity, demographic similarity. But research reveals that 67% of relationship failures stem from attachment incompatibility, not mismatched hobbies or different zip codes.
Revolutionary Approach: Wouch introduces the first dating platform built on attachment science and nervous system compatibility. Instead of matching profiles, we match healing potential. Instead of optimizing for initial attraction, we optimize for long-term emotional safety and secure love development.
The Attachment Crisis: Dr. Amir Levine's research shows that 40% of adults have insecure attachment patterns, yet no dating platform considers this in matching. This creates a massive problem: anxiously attached individuals repeatedly match with avoidant partners, recreating childhood wounds instead of healing them.
Scientific Foundation: Our matching philosophy integrates groundbreaking research from:
Dr. John Bowlby's attachment theory: How early relationships shape adult love patterns
Dr. Mary Ainsworth's attachment styles: Secure, anxious, avoidant, and disorganized patterns in adult relationships
Dr. Sue Johnson's EFT research: How attachment styles interact in couple dynamics
Dr. Stephen Porges' polyvagal theory: Nervous system compatibility and co-regulation potential
Market Disruption Potential: We're creating the first scientifically defensible matching system that predicts relationship success based on psychological compatibility rather than surface preferences. This represents a fundamental shift from entertainment-focused to outcome-focused relationship technology.
Investment Opportunity: Attachment-informed matching creates defensible competitive advantage through patent-pending algorithms based on decades of psychological research, positioning Wouch as category leader in evidence-based relationship technology.
Nervous System Compatibility: The Missing Piece of Relationship Success
The Hidden Factor: Research proves that successful relationships require nervous system co-regulation—the ability of partners to mutually calm and support each other's emotional states. Yet no dating platform has ever considered this crucial compatibility factor.
Polyvagal Theory Application: Dr. Stephen Porges' groundbreaking research reveals that our autonomic nervous system determines how we respond to relationships. Some nervous system combinations create mutual regulation and safety, while others create chronic activation and stress.
Advanced Compatibility Framework:
Safety Assessment Integration: Our platform evaluates how potential partners' presence affects each other's nervous system responses, prioritizing matches that create emotional safety rather than activation.
Regulation Pattern Analysis: Assessment of how individuals manage stress, process emotions, and recover from conflict—factors that determine whether partnerships will be healing or retraumatizing.
Co-Regulation Potential Evaluation: Analysis of whether potential partners possess the emotional skills and capacity to support each other's nervous system regulation during challenging times.
Attachment Security Progression: Matching individuals whose attachment styles and healing stages can support mutual movement toward security rather than reinforcing insecure patterns.
Research Applications: This nervous system compatibility approach enables groundbreaking research into what creates emotionally sustainable relationships, advancing understanding of human connection at neurobiological levels.
Clinical Validation Framework: We're establishing partnerships with trauma-informed therapists and attachment specialists to validate our compatibility assessments and ensure clinical accuracy in our matching protocols.
Therapeutic Integration: Mental health professionals can utilize our compatibility insights to better understand client relationship patterns and support healthier partner selection processes.
Long-Term Impact Measurement: By tracking nervous system compatibility outcomes over time, we're developing unprecedented insights into what creates lasting emotional safety in relationships.
Healing-Centered Matching: Transforming Wounds into Wisdom
Paradigm Revolution: Traditional dating focuses on finding someone who accepts your wounds. Wouch focuses on finding someone who supports your healing. This fundamental shift transforms dating from wound management to growth facilitation.
Trauma-Informed Compatibility Assessment:
Healing Stage Synchronization: Our matching considers where individuals are in their trauma recovery journey, connecting people whose healing processes can complement rather than trigger each other.
Resilience Factor Integration: Analysis of emotional regulation skills, support system strength, and healing capacity to ensure matches support mutual growth rather than codependency.
Trigger Awareness Matching: Understanding of how different trauma histories and attachment wounds interact, prioritizing connections that minimize retraumatization risk while maximizing healing potential.
Growth-Oriented Selection: Matching individuals whose relationship goals align with personal development, emotional healing, and conscious partnership creation rather than just companionship or entertainment.
Professional Insight Integration: Framework for incorporating input from users' mental health providers (with consent) to ensure matching supports therapeutic goals and healing progress.
Post-Traumatic Growth Facilitation: Our matching prioritizes connections that can support post-traumatic growth—the positive psychological change that can emerge from working through difficult experiences with proper support.
Research Foundation: This healing-centered approach is grounded in Dr. Judith Herman's trauma recovery research, Dr. Richard Tedeschi's post-traumatic growth studies, and emerging research on relationships as healing environments.
Clinical Partnership Opportunities: Mental health professionals can collaborate with our platform to support client healing through conscious relationship development, creating new therapeutic modalities and practice opportunities.
Secure Attachment Acceleration: Creating Love That Lasts
The Ultimate Goal: Wouch's matching system is designed to help users develop "earned security" the ability to create secure attachment through healing relationships, regardless of childhood attachment experiences.
Earned Security Development Framework:
Security-Supporting Matches: Prioritizing connections with individuals who possess the emotional availability, consistency, and attunement skills necessary to support attachment healing in partners.
Attachment Repair Through Relationship: Utilizing research showing that secure relationships can literally rewire insecure attachment patterns, our matching facilitates connections with healing potential.
Mutual Growth Optimization: Matching individuals whose attachment healing journeys can support each other's movement toward security, creating relationships that heal rather than perpetuate wounds.
Emotional Availability Assessment: Evaluation of potential partners' capacity for emotional presence, responsiveness, and consistent support the core components of secure attachment according to research.
Research Applications: This focus on earned security enables longitudinal research into how relationships can facilitate attachment healing, potentially advancing therapeutic understanding of attachment repair.
Clinical Integration Potential: Our secure attachment focus creates opportunities for collaboration with attachment-focused therapists, EFT practitioners, and trauma specialists supporting client relationship development.
Long-Term Outcome Focus: Unlike platforms that optimize for initial chemistry, our matching prioritizes factors research shows predict relationship longevity and satisfaction over years and decades.
Population Health Impact: By facilitating secure attachment development, our platform potentially impacts not just individual relationships but community wellbeing, family stability, and intergenerational trauma healing.
Competitive Differentiation: This evidence-based approach to attachment security creates unprecedented competitive advantage in dating technology, with applications extending beyond dating into relationship therapy and family wellness.
Innovation Framework:
Science-Based Matching: All algorithms grounded in peer-reviewed attachment research
Healing-Oriented Design: Technology that supports psychological growth and emotional safety
Clinical Validation: Professional oversight ensuring therapeutic accuracy and ethical implementation
Long-Term Success Focus: Optimization for lasting love rather than short-term engagement
Research Advancement: Data insights contribute to scientific understanding of human attachment
Market Positioning: First attachment-informed dating platform represents category-defining innovation with defensible competitive advantage, multiple revenue streams, and massive social impact potential.
This technology doesn't just help people find partners it helps them develop the capacity for secure, lasting love that transforms lives, families, and communities.
More Projects
Behavioral Psychology Technology
Attachment Informed Matching
While other apps match based on superficial preferences, Wouch's proprietary algorithm uses attachment theory, polyvagal theory, and trauma-informed psychology to connect people whose nervous systems can co-regulate. We don't just match profiles we match healing potentials. Users complete scientifically-validated assessments that reveal their attachment style, emotional regulation patterns, and readiness for secure love. Our AI then connects people whose attachment dynamics support mutual growth toward security, not codependency.
Year :
Beta Testing & Algorithm Refinement
Industry :
Relationship Compatibility Assessment
Client :
Attachment Theory, Polyvagal Theory, Neuroscience
Project Duration :
9-month clinical validation study in progress
Beyond Surface Compatibility: The Neuroscience of Lasting Love
(IP-Protected Version)
The Fundamental Flaw: Current dating algorithms match people based on superficial factors—shared interests, physical proximity, demographic similarity. But research reveals that 67% of relationship failures stem from attachment incompatibility, not mismatched hobbies or different zip codes.
Revolutionary Approach: Wouch introduces the first dating platform built on attachment science and nervous system compatibility. Instead of matching profiles, we match healing potential. Instead of optimizing for initial attraction, we optimize for long-term emotional safety and secure love development.
The Attachment Crisis: Dr. Amir Levine's research shows that 40% of adults have insecure attachment patterns, yet no dating platform considers this in matching. This creates a massive problem: anxiously attached individuals repeatedly match with avoidant partners, recreating childhood wounds instead of healing them.
Scientific Foundation: Our matching philosophy integrates groundbreaking research from:
Dr. John Bowlby's attachment theory: How early relationships shape adult love patterns
Dr. Mary Ainsworth's attachment styles: Secure, anxious, avoidant, and disorganized patterns in adult relationships
Dr. Sue Johnson's EFT research: How attachment styles interact in couple dynamics
Dr. Stephen Porges' polyvagal theory: Nervous system compatibility and co-regulation potential
Market Disruption Potential: We're creating the first scientifically defensible matching system that predicts relationship success based on psychological compatibility rather than surface preferences. This represents a fundamental shift from entertainment-focused to outcome-focused relationship technology.
Investment Opportunity: Attachment-informed matching creates defensible competitive advantage through patent-pending algorithms based on decades of psychological research, positioning Wouch as category leader in evidence-based relationship technology.
Nervous System Compatibility: The Missing Piece of Relationship Success
The Hidden Factor: Research proves that successful relationships require nervous system co-regulation—the ability of partners to mutually calm and support each other's emotional states. Yet no dating platform has ever considered this crucial compatibility factor.
Polyvagal Theory Application: Dr. Stephen Porges' groundbreaking research reveals that our autonomic nervous system determines how we respond to relationships. Some nervous system combinations create mutual regulation and safety, while others create chronic activation and stress.
Advanced Compatibility Framework:
Safety Assessment Integration: Our platform evaluates how potential partners' presence affects each other's nervous system responses, prioritizing matches that create emotional safety rather than activation.
Regulation Pattern Analysis: Assessment of how individuals manage stress, process emotions, and recover from conflict—factors that determine whether partnerships will be healing or retraumatizing.
Co-Regulation Potential Evaluation: Analysis of whether potential partners possess the emotional skills and capacity to support each other's nervous system regulation during challenging times.
Attachment Security Progression: Matching individuals whose attachment styles and healing stages can support mutual movement toward security rather than reinforcing insecure patterns.
Research Applications: This nervous system compatibility approach enables groundbreaking research into what creates emotionally sustainable relationships, advancing understanding of human connection at neurobiological levels.
Clinical Validation Framework: We're establishing partnerships with trauma-informed therapists and attachment specialists to validate our compatibility assessments and ensure clinical accuracy in our matching protocols.
Therapeutic Integration: Mental health professionals can utilize our compatibility insights to better understand client relationship patterns and support healthier partner selection processes.
Long-Term Impact Measurement: By tracking nervous system compatibility outcomes over time, we're developing unprecedented insights into what creates lasting emotional safety in relationships.
Healing-Centered Matching: Transforming Wounds into Wisdom
Paradigm Revolution: Traditional dating focuses on finding someone who accepts your wounds. Wouch focuses on finding someone who supports your healing. This fundamental shift transforms dating from wound management to growth facilitation.
Trauma-Informed Compatibility Assessment:
Healing Stage Synchronization: Our matching considers where individuals are in their trauma recovery journey, connecting people whose healing processes can complement rather than trigger each other.
Resilience Factor Integration: Analysis of emotional regulation skills, support system strength, and healing capacity to ensure matches support mutual growth rather than codependency.
Trigger Awareness Matching: Understanding of how different trauma histories and attachment wounds interact, prioritizing connections that minimize retraumatization risk while maximizing healing potential.
Growth-Oriented Selection: Matching individuals whose relationship goals align with personal development, emotional healing, and conscious partnership creation rather than just companionship or entertainment.
Professional Insight Integration: Framework for incorporating input from users' mental health providers (with consent) to ensure matching supports therapeutic goals and healing progress.
Post-Traumatic Growth Facilitation: Our matching prioritizes connections that can support post-traumatic growth—the positive psychological change that can emerge from working through difficult experiences with proper support.
Research Foundation: This healing-centered approach is grounded in Dr. Judith Herman's trauma recovery research, Dr. Richard Tedeschi's post-traumatic growth studies, and emerging research on relationships as healing environments.
Clinical Partnership Opportunities: Mental health professionals can collaborate with our platform to support client healing through conscious relationship development, creating new therapeutic modalities and practice opportunities.
Secure Attachment Acceleration: Creating Love That Lasts
The Ultimate Goal: Wouch's matching system is designed to help users develop "earned security" the ability to create secure attachment through healing relationships, regardless of childhood attachment experiences.
Earned Security Development Framework:
Security-Supporting Matches: Prioritizing connections with individuals who possess the emotional availability, consistency, and attunement skills necessary to support attachment healing in partners.
Attachment Repair Through Relationship: Utilizing research showing that secure relationships can literally rewire insecure attachment patterns, our matching facilitates connections with healing potential.
Mutual Growth Optimization: Matching individuals whose attachment healing journeys can support each other's movement toward security, creating relationships that heal rather than perpetuate wounds.
Emotional Availability Assessment: Evaluation of potential partners' capacity for emotional presence, responsiveness, and consistent support the core components of secure attachment according to research.
Research Applications: This focus on earned security enables longitudinal research into how relationships can facilitate attachment healing, potentially advancing therapeutic understanding of attachment repair.
Clinical Integration Potential: Our secure attachment focus creates opportunities for collaboration with attachment-focused therapists, EFT practitioners, and trauma specialists supporting client relationship development.
Long-Term Outcome Focus: Unlike platforms that optimize for initial chemistry, our matching prioritizes factors research shows predict relationship longevity and satisfaction over years and decades.
Population Health Impact: By facilitating secure attachment development, our platform potentially impacts not just individual relationships but community wellbeing, family stability, and intergenerational trauma healing.
Competitive Differentiation: This evidence-based approach to attachment security creates unprecedented competitive advantage in dating technology, with applications extending beyond dating into relationship therapy and family wellness.
Innovation Framework:
Science-Based Matching: All algorithms grounded in peer-reviewed attachment research
Healing-Oriented Design: Technology that supports psychological growth and emotional safety
Clinical Validation: Professional oversight ensuring therapeutic accuracy and ethical implementation
Long-Term Success Focus: Optimization for lasting love rather than short-term engagement
Research Advancement: Data insights contribute to scientific understanding of human attachment
Market Positioning: First attachment-informed dating platform represents category-defining innovation with defensible competitive advantage, multiple revenue streams, and massive social impact potential.
This technology doesn't just help people find partners it helps them develop the capacity for secure, lasting love that transforms lives, families, and communities.