Premarital Counseling

Prepare for life together – forever.

Having a solid start to your upcoming marriage is vital to you. If you make a big decision, like who you will build your life with, you want to do everything possible to set yourself up for success.

Although the two of you are in love and excited about marriage, you come from different backgrounds and families. These early experiences require consideration, and open communication about feelings now will make your relationship strong after you marry.

Finances, household roles, sex, communication, conflict, or any other topics specific to your situation are things you want to discuss and feel solid on BEFORE the wedding bells ring.

Premarital counseling facilitates positive relationships.

We help engaged couples or couples seriously thinking about marriage (or otherwise solidifying their life together) explore these topics.

Our goal is to facilitate honest conversations about important topics that can be hard for couples to discuss. We help ensure you can healthily handle conflict, teaching essential skills and giving you tools you can use together in therapy and beyond. We talk about your strengths as a couple and what is going well, and we’ll talk about areas where you two face challenges.

Some couples choose to do premarital counseling and then do a check-in appointment every six months or so to ensure they are being intentional about keeping their relationship on the right track. If they need extra support, we’ll do a few sessions to address the concern and check in again in another six months.

If desired, we use methods like the Prepare and Enrich assessment or the Fair Play system or integrate the Enneagram. If you’re looking for a $75 discount on your marriage license, we can help you with that, too.

Here’s a testimonial from one of our premarital clients.

“My now-husband and I saw Rachel for premarital counseling. It was really nice to have a place to talk through some of the things I was noticing in our relationship and other things that are important, but we hadn’t really thought about before counseling. I knew I wanted to marry my husband, but after doing counseling, I felt much more confident going into it. We still use what we learned about how to have a productive conversation whenever we need to talk about an issue. I’m proud of how we’ve been able to work through things so far, and I love knowing we can come back to someone who already knows us whenever we need to in the future.”