Premarital Counseling

Premarital counseling can help you emotionally prepare for marriage and ensure that your marriage starts on the best possible footing. Couples can learn more about their shared and differing values, expectations, and areas of potential conflict.

Each of us has a way of being in close relationships that we learned in our families growing up. You can’t help but relate to your future spouse using the only “relational pattern” or “emotional blueprint” that you have, especially during conflicts and disagreements. In premarital counseling, I help couples talk about their relational patterns by considering with them their experiences of being in relationship growing up and how that influences their way of being with each other. Premarital counseling with me typically lasts about 5 sessions.

The next step is to sit down with me and give it try, which might mean talking about some fears or questions you may have. During a free 15-minute consultation, I’ll attempt to answer all of your questions about myself and how we might work together, including concerns about the fee and time constraints.

It would be a privilege for me to meet with you and begin to understand your present concerns. Please contact me to schedule your initial session.

Marriage Enrichment

Whatever your relationship concerns are, I can help you get “unstuck” in your relationship, be heard and understood, and discover new ways of connecting. I will carefully listen to your present conflicts and create a therapeutic environment in which each of you is heard, understood, and accepted. Together, I will help you:

Recognize and interrupt destructive emotional and behavioral patterns in the relationship
Identify, reflect upon, and freely share your thoughts and feelings
Feel more connected in your relationship by understanding and appreciating the richness of your partner’s emotions

PREPARE/ENRICH helps you examine your relationship on dimensions found to be important to relationship health. You will learn how to communicate more effectively with each other so that you can improve your relationship and continue to understand, connect, and relate in healthy ways. You will learn and practice skills that will serve your relationship now and in the future.

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How my service works

Complimentary Counseling Consultation
45 to 60 minute "Discovery Review" first session
One 30 to 60 minute video/phone call per agreement* (session length depends on which program)
Unlimited Email support
Occasional brief check-in calls

*Local residents can opt to meet in person