Marriage Prep | Premarital Counseling

HELPING PEOPLE FULFILL THEIR DREAMS AND

FEEL READY FOR THEIR MARRIED LIFE!

Your wedding is approaching—but instead of feeling fully at ease, something feels unsettled.

You’re noticing tension around money, future plans, or family. Important conversations—about intimacy, in-laws, or expectations—get avoided or shut down. You may be carrying past hurts you don’t want to bring into your marriage, or wondering if you’re truly aligned for the future.

That quiet doubt, the “we’ll figure it out later”—that’s the pain point. And it’s exactly where premarital counseling can help you gain clarity, strengthen communication, and build a secure foundation before you say “I do.”

 

As a certified Prepare/Enrich counselor, I provide premarital counseling and couples therapy for engaged and committed couples who want to build a strong, healthy marriage.

I help couples improve communication, align on expectations, and navigate key topics such as finances, family, and intimacy—so you can feel more connected and confident about your future together. My approach is practical, structured, and evidence-based, offering tools you can apply in everyday life to create lasting change.

Together, we’ll also work through past experiences and emotional patterns, helping you enter your marriage with clarity, trust, and a solid foundation for a long-term, fulfilling relationship.

  • PREPARE/ENRICH, one of the most widely used programs for premarital counseling and premarital education, is used to facilitate your pre-marital counseling process. Over the last 30 years, the PREPARE/ENRICH relationship assessment has empowered and energized more than 3 million couples and is considered the #1 relationship inventory and couples assessment tool!

    PREPARE/ENRICH highlights and focuses on the most important areas in a married couple’s relationship. Follow up sessions involve strategic discussions of your results to elicit clarity and relationship health.

    The main areas of assessment include:

    • Communication

    • Conflict Resolution

    • Relationship Roles & Expectations

    • Lifestyle and Habits

    • Financial Management

    • Sex and Affection

    • Family and Friends

    • Spiritual Beliefs

    • Differences in Partner’s Personalities

    • Stress Management

    To learn more about PREPARE/ENRICH

  • Step1: If you decided to work with me and want to use PREPARE/ENRICH online assessment, I will register you and your partner/ fiancé to take the assessment. Only certified facilitators can register participants to have access to the inventory.

    Step 2: You and your partner/ fiancé will receive an email from PREPARE/ENRICH containing a login code and a link to the webpage where you will complete your assessment. One-time program fee of $35 to gain access to the inventory is paid directly on PREPARE/ENRICH website.

    Step3: After you and your partner have completed the assessment, you can schedule sessions with me to discuss your results. The full program can be done in 6 to 8 standard sessions with me (50-minutes each). Ideally I encourage couples to plan for a total of 9 sessions (one overall result discussion session and 8 strategic discussions of specific areas outlined in the assessment).

PREPARE/ENRICH PRE-MARITAL COUNSELING

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    Are follow-up sessions required?

    YES. The assessment alone is meaningless itself. As a certified facilitator and a licensed couple’s therapist, I will walk through the results, maximize your strength areas and help you unpack and navigate the growth areas presented in your relationship. By working with me you will receive more therapeutic interventions than non-licensed facilitators can provide.

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    What is the recommended number of follow-up sessions?

    The full program can be done in 6 to 8 standard sessions with me (50-minutes each). Ideally I encourage couples to plan for a total of 9 sessions (one overall result discussion session and 8 strategic discussions of specific areas outlined in the assessment).

    Every couple is different. A recommendation of having more than 8 sessions is NOT a negative evaluation of your relationship. It simply a suggestion to allow you more time to discuss certain growth areas in-depth.

    Moreover, additional sessions are also appropriate or couples who desire time for some specific work or attention to some concerns that are frequently encountered by engaged couples, for instance, family of origin issues, relationships with future in-laws, and work and family life balance, etc.

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    What will you expect to gain from the pre-marital counseling?

    In your initial session I will go over some of the results of your unique assessment, and will begin to tailor a specific plan for you and your partner individually and conjointly. The remaining sessions will go through each of the major topics listed above, and your specific assessment results, using structured exercises to help you make improvements and grow in your understanding of your partner and relationship. Sometimes there are homework assignments to do between the sessions, to really make sure you are implementing what you learned into your every day life.

    Additionally, you and your partner will receive a complimentary workbook from me to provide you structured tools to further discuss and grow your relationship.

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    I'm not engaged, can I also take PREPARE/ENRICH?

    The answer is YES! PREPARE-ENRICH is also relevant for couples who are dating, or have been committed for some times and want to continue to grow their relationship. PREPARE/ENRICH is also a great tool to help married couples, too.

    To learn more about other versions of PREPARE/ENRICH, please find here:

    https://www.prepare-enrich.com/the-assessment/

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    What languages of PREPARE/ENRICH are available other than English?

    YES! PREPARE/ENRICH has many different languages available for their current research products – over 30 translations! If you want a specific language other than English, please let me know and I will reach out to the PREPARE/ENRICH Customer Experience team to find out if a scale is available in a certain language of your preference.