Couple Therapy

Service Description

Pre-Marital Counseling: Learn what’s good about your relationship and improve the things that could use some help. At Brighter Dimensions we do a lot of work with struggling couples and families. It concerns us that so many couples come to us when their problems have grown to seemingly unmanageable sizes. It is our hope that we can help families to deal with and even avoid some of these issues before they get too big. Doing honest and challenging premarital work can go a long way towards preventing these problems. “It is well established that those couples who do Pre-marital work decrease the likelihood that they will head down the path to divorce.” One of our primary missions at BRIGHTER DIMENSIONS is to help families to achieve joy and fulfillment in their lives. We believe that this program can go a long way towards achieving that mission. Please ask yourselves the following questions: Are your expectations about marriage realistic? Do you know what the common problems in marriages are? Have you completely discussed the wide variety of issues that can prove problematic in relationships? Do you know what issues you bring to this new relationship from the family you were raised in? Would you like to make sure that you have the skills to deal effectively with the issues that will present themselves in your marriage? Marriage/Relationship Counseling: Marriage is a serious decision and as such, many couples wish to explore and examine their relationship before entering into this extraordinary commitment. Our Goals for Marriage/Relationship Counseling: Identify your strengths as a couple and build new ones Strengthen your communication skills Uncover stressful areas and resolve conflicts Explore your families of origin Comfortably discuss financial issues Establish personal, couple and family goals Understand and appreciate personality differences What is PREPARE/ENRICH PREPARE/ENRICH is a customized couple assessment completed online that identifies a couple's strength and growth areas. It is one of the most widely used programs for premarital counseling and premarital education. It is also used for marriage counseling, marriage enrichment, and dating couples considering engagement. Based on a couple's assessment results, a trained facilitator provides 4-8 feedback sessions in which the facilitator helps the couple discuss and understand their results as they are taught proven relationship skills.