“Why do we need premarital counseling? Our relationship is great!”
Many couples wonder whether premarital counseling is necessary when their relationship is already strong. In fact, the healthiest relationships often invest in building communication, strengthening friendship, and learning practical skills before challenges arise.
At Main Line Counseling Partners we help couples build the skills needed for a healthy, lasting marriage. Our experienced therapists create a supportive space to strengthen communication, navigate conflict, deepen friendship, and prepare for the challenges and joys of married life with greater confidence.
There are probably things that you are already doing that are working great, and there might be some things that are working fine, but could be even better. You are at the ideal time in your relationship to get into healthy routines that you follow for the rest of your life.
All of these healthy relatinship habbits are worth thinking about so that you can make sure that you keep up the good work in your areas of strength, and learn some skills to improve the areas that could become problematic.
Research shows that most couples don’t seek help until six years after problems are first noticed. Prevention is always better than intervention.
Our premarital counseling is informed by decades of experience helping couples thrive, including advanced training in the Gottman Method and evidence-based relationship research.
We don’t recommend looking for problems to dig up. In both our self-guided course and private coaching, we offer a tools-based approach that provides education about what makes marriage work and the skills for building a strong relationship.
Dr. John Gottman can predict divorce with over 90% accuracy as a result of a 30 year longitudinal study. One of the things we know from his research that couples are much more likely to stay happily married if they focus more on positivity than negativity. We follow that model in our premarital counseling classes at Main Line Counseling Partners.
Many couples are looking for premarital counseling that is grounded in relationship science rather than a particular faith tradition. At Main Line Counseling Partners, our premarital counseling is welcoming to couples of all backgrounds, beliefs, and identities. Using the evidence-based Gottman Method, we focus on helping you strengthen communication, navigate conflict, and build a healthy, lasting marriage.
Our premarital counseling sessions use the Gottman Method because it offers a positive, skills based approach which will helps couples communicate better, build intimacy and have fun together (even when life gets busy).
You and your partner will start with two private meetings with a relationship expert. In the first meeting you will learn what we know from the research about what makes marriage last. This includes providing you with some good habits to develop early and some tools to use if things start to go south. You will also learn what to expect during certain life-cycle transitions.
In the second meeting you will have an opportunity to discuss the specifics of your relationship and the therapist can guide you through the tools you’d like to practice step by step. Once this connection is built it is nice to know that you have a resource available to you for unforeseen circumstances in your relationship.
After the first two sessions you have the option to continue your work in any way that makes sense. Some couples add some private sessions on to deepen the work, and others come in 2-3 times per year to make sure the relationship continues to be strong.
Main Line Counseling Partners is a team of highly trained clinicians providing relief from depression, anxiety, addiction, OCD and relationship problems.
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