Pre-Marital Counseling
There’s a lot more to prepare for than the wedding.
Our Approach
Our premarital counseling incorporates the Prepare/Enrich program, a research-based relationship assessment and framework designed to help couples better understand their strengths, growth areas, and relationship dynamics.
Your results help guide our work together, but sessions aren’t simply about working through an assessment. Your therapist will tailor counseling to your relationship, creating space for honest conversations, deeper understanding, practical relationship skills, and the specific topics that matter most as you prepare for marriage.
Communication styles
Conflict and repair
Relationship strengths and growth areas
Financial expectations
Family of origin and in-law relationships
Roles and responsibilities
Intimacy and affection
Personality differences
Values and beliefs
Expectations for marriage
Parenting and future family plans
Stress and major life transitions
Goals and dreams for your future together
What We May Explore
What To Expect
Premarital counseling typically includes 6–8 sessions using the Prepare/Enrich framework.
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You’ll complete the Prepare/Enrich assessment, giving you and your therapist a starting point for understanding your relationship strengths, differences, and areas worth exploring more deeply.
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We’ll create space for conversations couples sometimes mean to have but don’t always know how to start. You’ll explore expectations, values, family patterns, communication, conflict, and what each of you wants your marriage to look like.
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Premarital counseling isn’t about creating a relationship without conflict. It’s about learning how to communicate, understand one another, navigate differences, and repair when things get hard. Skills you can continue using long after the wedding.
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Your wedding is one day. Your marriage is everything you're building after it. Premarital counseling gives you space to be intentional about both the relationship you have now and the one you want to continue creating together.
Who Offers Pre-Marital Counseling?
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Dr. Kristin Sawyer
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Megan Townsend, M.A., LPC, NCC
Looking for support that goes beyond premarital counseling? Our Bridal Wellness services offer additional support for the individual person behind the wedding. This service creates space to navigate stress, family dynamics, relationships, expectations, and everything else that can come with the season between “yes” and “I do.”
