Seeking Premarital Counseling?

Whether you’re officially an engaged couple or not, I commend you for taking this step toward enhancing your committed relationship.  As a Certified Gottman Couples Therapist, I will teach you the principles for maintaining a satisfying, long-term relationship derived from three decades of research on more than 3,000 couples conducted by John Gottman and his colleagues at the University of Washington.

First, you will each complete a packet of assessments which will identify your strengths as a couple and the areas for improvement in your relationship.  The therapy will then target those identified areas for improvement, and any other issues you may want to address.  These areas for improvement generally fall into three categories:

  1. the quality of your friendship,
  2. the regulation of conflict, and
  3. supporting one another’s individual dreams and nurturing shared goals. 

There will be opportunities to learn and practice new relationship skills, enhance your friendship, identify individual and shared goals, develop more effective ways of dealing with conflict when it arises, and to create a sense of “we-ness.”