Premarital Counseling
Premarital counseling is designed to help you prepare for the commitment of marriage. This is an exciting time in a couple’s life. Investing in your relationship prior to making this commitment can provide you with insight, awareness and strategies that allows you to build a healthy relational foundation. Marriage can at times intensify issues or challenges in a relationship. Premarital counseling offers you the opportunity to process these dynamics and develop a more holistic understanding and appreciation of your partner and the potential future of you relationship together.
Premarital counseling can help you:
- Process your past relational experiences which can impact your current relationship.
- Understand family of origin dynamics and pressures on your relationship.
- Develop awareness and appreciation for you and your partner’s unique strengths and perspectives.
- Practice healthy communication.
- Learn to resolve conflict and repair your relationship after conflict.
- Create a vision, intention and commitment for your relationships impact in the world.
My goal for premarital counseling is to create an experience for you and your partner to process the dynamics, strengths and resources of your relationship. This is an exciting time in your life. My hope is that we build a foundation of awareness, appreciation, encouragement and strength that can allow your relationship to grow into all its potential. I believe it is vital to create an atmosphere of trust, openness, empathy, acceptance and compassion in our sessions together. We will work to create goals, strategies and solutions that will provide you and your partner with the resources needed to create the relationship you desire.
Focus Areas
There are many different focuses areas you can explore in premarital counseling. Here are a few:
- Communication skills
- Conflict resolution and repair strategies
- Openness, vulnerability and trust
- Family of origin dynamics
- Listening strategies
- Relational dynamics
- Past relational pain
- Appreciation for each others strengths
- Sexual intimacy
- Vision for relational future