PreMarital

Counseling

Safe guard your marriage for a lifetime!

Learn the skills to keep your marriage vibrant for decades to come!

This might be you…

  • You are engaged to the love of your life!! (We are so thrilled for you!!)

  • You have a pretty strong relationship with your fiancé, and want to keep it that way!

  • You are on the same page with most things… (but maybe a little nervous about the things you don’t agree on)

  • You feel an intense and deep connection with each other

Your dream…

  • You dream of building a beautiful life together

  • You both want to achieve success in all areas of your lives, and become the best versions of yourselves

  • You want to be so strong that no challenge is too big to overcome together

  • You dream of creating memories together for a lifetime

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to learn why some marriages successes, and some marriages fail?

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to learn how to make your marriage last a lifetime?

Building a Strong Marriage Might Include:

Research shows doing pre-marital counseling reduces the rate of divorce by 30%

  • Building communication skills, (both listening and speaking)

  • Exploring the “meaning of money” for financial health

  • Identifying your personal sexual expectations

  • Identifying your Critical Stress Profile

  • Creating patterns of daily connection for lasting emotional intimacy

  • Learning the 10 steps for resolving conflict

  • Exploring your expectations of Relationship Roles

  • Discussing your shared or individual spiritual beliefs

  • Learning both flexibility and boundary skills

  • Understanding the effects of your family history

  • Managing expectations and healthy communication around the hot topics of parenting, money, sex

  • And more!

Prepare for the love of a lifetime!

What Happens, Week-by-Week

Through our in-depth assessment, we will learn your strength areas, and growth areas. Each couple will have a tailored experience, but all couples will touch on the topics listed to the right.

  • Research shows simply completing the assessment improves the quality of the relationship. Why? Because it gets you thinking about areas of your relationship that may have been neglected, and gives you and your the language to dive deeper with each other.

  • Explore your strength and growth areas, relationship dynamics, and begin building the communication skills you will use throughout you marriage!

  • Explore your personal stress profile and conflict resolution skills you will rely on throughout your life together

  • Explore your "Couple Map" & "Family Map

  • Explore your SCOPE personality profile and your long-term goals for the relationship

  • Money Money Money! Dive into your relationship roles and financial management!

  • Love, Sex, & Affection. Explore ways of building connection, inside and outside the bedroom

  • Explore your spiritual or religious compatibility, as well as your parenting and childrearing compatibility.

  • Reflect, review, and finalize relationship goals.

  • Sessions 9 and 10 are used for whatever areas need a little more time. Typically 10-12 sessions is needed to complete all topic areas.

Is Premarital counseling really necessary?

There is a 67% chance a marriage will end over a 40 year period.

1/2 of all marriages that end, end in the first 7 years.

69% of conflict is due to unresolved and perpetual problems.

The good news!

Research shows doing pre-marital counseling reduces the rate of divorce by 30%

“Great marriages don’t happen by accident”

-Casey Easton

Get Started Today!

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Ethredge Counseling Group provides individual counseling, trauma therapy, couples therapy, marriage counseling, and premarital counseling at their offices on James Island in Charleston, SC. Our therapist also serve Johns Island, downtown Charleston, West Ashley, Mount Pleasant, and Folly Beach, as well as virtually throughout South Carolina.