What is Premarital Counseling?
Premarital Counseling is a process where we examine your relationship prior to marriage to insure your most tremendous success in marriage. We typically do it for 6 weeks before the service.
Statistics show those who complete Premarital Counseling have greater success in marriage.
Premarital Counseling typically follows a standardized process, including
1. Intake
2. One on One Interviews
3. Collaborative Planning for Marriage
We are trained and prepared to offer three of the leading Premarital Inventories/Assessments.
Lets discuss the one best for you.
We can offer all our Premarital counseling remotely via Microsoft Teams. Microsoft Teams Channel is confidential.
Check Out The Research
Do Premarital Education Promotion Policies Work?
Hawkins, A.J. and Clyde, T.L. 2019. “Do Premarital Education Promotion Policies Work?” Institute of Family Studies 105-120.
A Comparison of Cohabiting and Noncohabiting Couples Who Participated in Premarital Counseling Using the PREPARE Mode
Carlson, Ryan & Daire, Andrew & Munyon, Matthew & Young, Mark. (2012). A Comparison of Cohabiting and Noncohabiting Couples Who Participated in Premarital Counseling Using the PREPARE Model. The Family Journal. 20. 123-130.
What is the Symbis Assessment
The Symbis Assessment is an evidenced based assessment backed up by extensive research. Developed by
Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott
A husband-and-wife team who not only share the same name, but the same passion for helping others build healthy relationships.
Les is a professor of psychology at Northwest University and they are founders of the Center for Healthy Relationships on the campus of Olivet University.
Married in 1984, the Parrotts bring real-life examples to their speaking platform. Their professional training – Leslie as a marriage and family therapist, and Les as a clinical psychologist – ensures a presentation that is grounded, insightful and cutting-edge.
The Parrotts have been featured in USA Today and the New York Times. Their television appearances include CNN, The View, The O’Reilly Factor, The Today Show and Oprah.
As #1 New York Times best-selling authors, their books have sold over two million copies in more than two dozen languages, and include best-selling and Gold-medallion winner Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts. Other popular titles include Real Relationships, L.O.V.E., The Parent You Want To Be, Trading Places, The Complete Guide To Marriage Mentoring and Love Talk.
Our basic Premarital Counseling will include the following topics. Resources are listed below.
- The Purpose and Structure of Marriage
The DIY Manual to Marriage Building.
- Expectations in Marriage
- Principles of a Lasting Marriage
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
- Overcoming obstacles in Marriage
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
- Communication in Marriage
- The Expanded Family and Other Support Systems
In-Laws And All: A Survival Guide
Total Cost is $300 (includes resources and selected videos)
Note: Many states give discounts on marriage licenses to those who complete Premarital Counseling.
We will give a 15% gratuity towards our Officiant services for graduates of this program. This is our wedding gift to you.
We are adding this assessment to our services
The assessment is an inventory that requires thirty(30) minutes to complete.
However, the assessment cannot be completed without a Symbis certified facilitator.
The assessment will help to identify risk factors as well as the combined strengths of the couple.
The program requires 8-10 sessions to complete.
There are also workbooks that the couple can use to supplement the sessions.
The program works for premarital couples, married couples, and even second married couples.
This is a premier program.
What is Prepare/Enrich
Prepare/Enrich
Prepare/Enrich is an interactive assessment that can help couples, primarily those engaged to be married, to increase relationship satisfaction. Aspects of your relationship that will be explored in premarital counseling include communication, conflict resolution, partner style and habits, financial management, leisure activities, sexual expectations and intimacy, family and friends, relationship roles, cultural differences, and spiritual beliefs.
Your scores will be reviewed from an in-depth, evidence-based couples assessment, which will be used to discuss your relationship strengths and growth areas. The assessment has been proven to improve relationship satisfaction, helping the couple grow more than they would.
Transforming Relationships
More than 4,000,000 couples worldwide have prepared for marriage or enriched their relationship by taking the Prepare/Enrich assessment and working with a Certified Facilitator. The assessment itself has been proven to improve relationship satisfaction.
However, when working with a Certified facilitator, the effectiveness of the survey improves.
Aspects of your relationship that will be explored in premarital counseling include communication, conflict resolution, partner style and habits, financial management, leisure activities, sexual expectations and intimacy, family and friends, relationship roles, cultural differences, and spiritual beliefs.
Prepare/Enrich FAQ’s
How many sessions are recommended?
- We recommend at least eight sessions. During this committed time, couples can expect to complete the entire Prepare/Enrich Assessment and workbook of interactive exercises and explore any other concerns that may come up in sessions.
What is the investment cost?
- Your first intake session will cost 60 to 90 minutes at $150. Follow-up sessions are $86 for 50 minutes. An additional $35 fee (per couple) for the Prepare/Enrich assessment. The Total cost is $835.
What is the structure?
- The first session will be 60 to 90 minutes. You and your partner will take the online Prepare/Enrich assessment for homework following your intake session. After the intake session, some couples may need individual sessions before proceeding. After this process, you and your partner will meet with your therapist for a 50-minute feedback session and begin working through the interactive workbook. Your therapist will provide homework to help supplement the skills you and your partner learn in session.
Gottman Connects
John and Julie Gottman know that building and healing relationships like yours is both an art and a science. Built on decades of award-winning research combined with world-renown therapy expertise, we’ve created a set of powerful tools for individuals, couples, and therapists, to help you build a relationship that lasts.
What could be more important than building the relationship you deserve? Learn directly from renowned relationship experts from the comfort and privacy of your own home with the new Gottman Relationship Coach.
This dynamic multimedia experience is filled with powerful video tutorials and highly-effective exercises, designed to help you build lasting relationships with the loved ones in your life.
Features
- Learn directly from renowned relationship experts
- Interactive videos for you and your partner
- Based on the Gottman Method’s clinical research
- Custom bundles, specific to your relationship
We are a Level I Gottman trained Clinician
