Prepare for your marriage, not just your wedding!
The evolution of your relationship from engaged to married is important. With convenient options for premarital counseling both virtually and in Bethesda, MD, we give you the opportunity to celebrate your strengths as a couple and translate those strengths into a healthy foundation for your life together. Couples who attend premarital counseling can feel confident in both their skills and their connection, knowing they have had important conversations and are on the same page. Premarital counseling is a safe space to not only address areas of growth for your relationship, but also to recognize what you are already doing well and build on it. Premarital counseling will help you learn how to:
- improve your communication and conflict resolution skills
- process family issues that may impact your relationship now or in the future
- address financial planning and budgeting
- focus on personal and family goals, including creating and defining a unique “couple culture”
- discuss any other tricky issues, such as wedding stress, work-life balance, cohabiting, or sex and intimacy
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Premarital Counseling Virtual or in Bethesda, MD
PREPARE/ENRICH Premarital Counseling Program
Prepare/Enrich is a strengths-based program that is completely customized to your couple relationship. It is designed to be used with heterosexual and same-sex couples who are engaged, committed, or newly married. After taking an online assessment and personality inventory, we use a report of your results that includes helpful charts and graphs to guide our premarital counseling conversation around your relationship strengths and growth-areas. An accompanying premarital counseling workbook of fun exercises and discussion prompts helps you continue having interesting and insight-provoking conversations at home. The Prepare/Enrich program is great for couples who know that premarital counseling is important, and who want some structure and guidance on about what to talk about.
Request a consultation to learn more about working with the experienced, certified Prepare/Enrich premarital counselors at Capital Crescent Collective.
Conventional Premarital Counseling
Perhaps you already know what you want to address in premarital counseling, have your own timeline in mind, or want a more individualized approach. Conventional premarital counseling is a good investment for any engaged couple. Rather than use a structured program or workbook, you will focus your premarital counseling conversations on the relationship areas that are most important to you. Our experienced couple therapists are excited to explore how you would like to start your marriage off on the right foot and identify your unique strengths, resources, and needs so that you can do so with intention and direction. From family drama to recurring communication issues to finding more time for each other, talking about relationship issues in premarital counseling helps you re-energize your connection so that both your wedding day and future marriage are full of joy.
Conventional premarital counseling is a supportive option for couples who are crunched for time, have goals outside of typical Prepare/Enrich topics, or who prefer only a few brief sessions focused on particularly worrisome relationship areas. All of our therapists offer conventional premarital counseling services.
More information about premarital counseling at Capital Crescent Collective
Premarital counseling designed with you in mind.
When you are busy planning a wedding, you need your premarital counseling to be both accessible and thoughtful of your experience. Our couple therapists have spent their careers serving the Bethesda, MD and wider DMV areas, and we understand the unique pressures and strains on your schedules and lives. We take pride in making it easier to access premarital counseling with our evening and weekend accessibility and virtual options. In between choosing vendors, coordinating with loved ones, and managing daily life in the DMV, you can breathe easy knowing your premarital counseling can take place from the comfort of your own home and at a time that works for you.
Your relationship is welcome and valued here. Our premarital therapists offer a range of specialties and expertise and are excited to support couples of all genders, sexualities, neurotypes, and cultures of origin. The issues that are important to each couple may be different as you prepare for marriage, and they are all important! Our therapists are inclusive, affirming, and ready to help all couples build on their relationship strengths. Both types of premarital counseling programs, Prepare/Enrich and Conventional, are offered to all engaged couples.
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