Editorial team
The people writing Amora’s relationship content
We read the research so you don’t have to. Every blog post, guide, and daily question on Amora is written or reviewed by a member of this team.
Editors
01
Riley Tonkin
Founder, Amora
Riley is the founder of Amora. He built the app after experiencing the challenges of staying connected in his own long-distance relationship, and reviews relationship psychology research from Dr. John Gottman, Dr. Sue Johnson, and others to inform every guide and question on the site.
Jake Lawson
Senior Editor
Jake leads Amora's editorial coverage of relationship psychology research. He reads the studies from Gottman, Tatkin, Johnson, and others so couples don't have to, and turns the findings into something you can actually use this week.
Sophie Bell
Editor, Daily Connection
Sophie curates Amora's daily questions and writes about the small, daily rituals that make long-term relationships feel close. She believes most relationship problems are translation problems, and most of those can be solved with the right question at the right moment.
Kai Park
Editor, Modern Relationships
Kai writes about modern relationships, long-distance couples, and the messy in-between space where Gen Z and millennial dating actually lives in 2026. Situationships, app burnout, healthy boundaries, and what to do when the old advice no longer applies.
Clinical reviewers
02We’re recruiting licensed clinicians to review our content
If you’re a licensed marriage & family therapist, mental health counselor, clinical psychologist, or sex therapist, and you’d like a small honorarium to review 4 to 6 articles a year on a topic you specialize in, we’d love to hear from you. You keep your byline, your voice, and your authority. We do the writing; you bring the rigor.
Or email directly: reviewers@tryamora.app
How we work
03Research first, hot takes never
Every article cites peer-reviewed work or named expert sources. We name researchers (Gottman, Tatkin, Johnson, Schnarch) and link to their actual studies, not summaries of summaries.
Couples are our only audience
We write for people already in a relationship who want it to feel closer. We don’t do dating advice, breakup playbooks, or content optimized for single readers.
No prescriptive shame
We don’t tell readers what their relationship should look like. We offer frameworks, questions, and research, and trust couples to apply what fits.
Transparency over polish
When a topic is beyond our scope (acute crisis, abuse, severe mental health) we say so explicitly and point to people who can actually help.