If you’re looking at this page, chances are you aren’t experiencing major problems in your relationship. Maybe there are a few things you’d like help talking through, such as money, life goals, or what you want your future to look like together. Or maybe things are going well, and you simply want to be intentional about giving your marriage a strong foundation from the very beginning.

Either way, you’re in the right place.

Building a Strong Foundation for Marriage

In premarital counseling, we’ll use the Gottman Sound Relationship House to better understand your relationship. This framework helps us identify the strengths you already have as a couple, as well as areas that could benefit from a little more attention and support.

From there, the three of us will work together to build the skills that can help sustain your relationship through the ups and downs of married life.

What You May Work On

Premarital counseling is an opportunity to better understand one another and intentionally strengthen the relationship you’re building. Depending on your needs, we may work on:

• Building and maintaining a strong friendship

• Nurturing fondness, admiration, and appreciation for one another

• Understanding bids for connection and learning how to recognize and respond to them

• Identifying your conflict styles and the patterns that can emerge during disagreements

• Learning skills for conflict management, compromise, and repair

• Creating rituals of connection that help you stay close as life changes

• Developing shared meaning around your values, goals, and the life you want to build together

Together, we’ll focus on helping you create a relationship where you know how to turn toward one another, navigate challenges, and continue building connection throughout the different stages of your life together.