Premarital Coaching
Our premarital coaching process is grounded in the trusted Prepare/Enrich assessment, which is one of the most widely used and research-backed premarital counseling tools available today. If you are searching for premarital counseling in Oregon, Hawaii, or virtual premarital coaching, Prepare/Enrich offers a structured, evidence-based foundation to help couples strengthen communication, navigate conflict, and build long-term relational resilience before marriage.
The Prepare/Enrich couples assessment provides a personalized relationship profile based on your unique responses. It highlights relationship strengths, identifies growth areas, and offers customized exercises designed to improve communication skills, conflict resolution, financial conversations, intimacy, and family-of-origin dynamics. Rather than generic relationship advice, this data-driven premarital assessment allows us to focus directly on what matters most to you as a couple, helping to create clarity, confidence, and practical tools as you prepare for marriage.
Whether you choose an intensive format or weekly sessions, integrating the Prepare/Enrich premarital assessment ensures your coaching experience is intentional, structured, and tailored specifically to your relationship.
Why Premarital Coaching?
01 / Love Is Not the Same as Skill
You can deeply love each other and still struggle with communication, conflict, money, intimacy, or family boundaries. Marriage isn’t just about compatibility, it’s about capacity. Premarital coaching helps you build the skills that support the love you already have.
02 / Preventative Work Is Powerful
Most couples wait until they’re in distress to seek support. Premarital coaching gives you tools before patterns harden. You’ll learn how to repair, how to disagree well, and how to stay connected during stress, so small issues don’t become long-term fractures.
03 / Clarity Creates Confidence
Engagement is full of excitement and often unspoken assumptions. Coaching creates space to talk about expectations, values, roles, finances, sex, spirituality, family culture, and long-term vision. When you walk into marriage aligned, you walk in steady.
Two Ways to Strengthen Your Foundation Together
Both options include:
Prepare/Enrich assessment
Personalized feedback session
Structured paper workbooks
Guided exercises
Action steps and integration tools
Virtual options available; limited in-person options may be available (TBD)
Packages are $1,800. Care Credit available.
Option 1: Two-Day Intensive
Perfect for couples who:
Have a busy schedule
Are planning a wedding and want focused preparation
Prefer immersive, deep work in a contained timeframe
Structure:
Day 1: Assessment feedback + core communication & conflict work, relationship roles & responsibility
Day 2: Finances, intimacy, family dynamics, vision & shared agreements
This format allows for momentum, clarity, and accelerated connection.
Option 2: Eight Weekly Sessions
Perfect for couples who:
Prefer a slower, integrative pace
Want time to practice between sessions
Appreciate ongoing support and accountability
Structure:
8 weekly sessions (typically 75–90 minutes)
Assessment integrated into early sessions
Practice assignments between sessions
Continued refinement and support
This format allows space for real-time growth as life unfolds.
What Makes This Premarital Coaching Different?
We Use the Prepare/Enrich Couples Assessment
I integrate the Prepare/Enrich assessment, which is one of the most researched and widely used premarital tools available.
Instead of surface-level conversations, this structured assessment provides:
A personalized relationship profile based on your unique responses
Insight into strength areas and growth areas
Structured exercises tailored specifically to you as a couple
Evidence-based guidance around communication, conflict, finances, intimacy, family-of-origin dynamics, and shared meaning
This isn’t generic advice.
It’s customized to your relationship.
You’ll Leave With Real Tools, Not Just Insight
Each couple receives a structured focus based on your assessment results. You’ll walk away with language, exercises, and shared agreements you can revisit long after the wedding. (Not just figuratively, but also literally with a workbook).
Depth Without Pathologizing
This is coaching — not therapy — unless we decide together that therapy is appropriate. The tone is forward-focused, practical, and growth-oriented. We’re building your future, not digging endlessly into the past (unless something important needs attention).