Premarital Counseling in Charlotte and Belmont

Let’s face it; most churches don’t have the time, staff, or training to prepare you for the most important relationship and most serious commitment you’ll make in your life.

(Maybe you’re not even getting married in a church or by a pastor and have no idea where to turn for pre-marital counseling.)

Most couples spend significantly more time, attention, and money on what you’ll wear the day of your wedding than the behaviors, expectations and pitfalls that will set you up for success or failure in your actual marriage.

Yes, weddings are supposed to be romantic snapshots in time. The goal is obviously endurance – a marriage that lasts; but we also want to foster one that enriches and provides a stable, healthy environment for both partners and their children.

I’m here to help you build a foundation upon which your marital relationship can flourish so love and trust will grow for a lifetime, enriching your bond, well beyond the honeymoon.

In a course, custom-designed for you and your partner, we’ll talk about your relationship’s strengths and weaknesses; differences in your families; your habits and views about money and children; faith; sex; how to communicate more effectively; how to fight in healthier ways; expectations; deal-breakers; and so much more that you likely haven’t even considered.

It’s just a face: we all have our issues; and when we choose a partner, we are choosing their particular form of issue, small or large.

Divorced? We’ll talk about all that too, as well as how to effectively, and realistically, blend existing families and heal any residual hurts, minimizing their impact on your new relationship.

Premarital counseling makes a lovely and meaningful gift that will have a lasting, memorable impact on the life of the married couple.

Most clergy members require brief sessions under the banner of pre-marital counseling before they’ll agree to officiate at your wedding. But I’ll share all I know as a licensed mental health professional that’s been documented by actual relationship experts with years of research, practice and tangible advice that will help your marriage be the relationship of which you both dream — long after your I do’s.