Premarital Counseling for Couples

So, you’re ready to take the next step in your relationship. Congratulations!

Are there a few kinks you’d like to work out together before diving into the commitment of marriage? Are there some topics you’d like to stop arguing about, or ways that you think your relationship could be improved? Premarital counseling may be just what you need.

Or perhaps things are going well, but you are someone who likes to feel really prepared in moving forward. Do you feel like you are on the same page as your partner on all of the aspects of marriage and a lifetime together that are important to you? Premarital counseling can help you get to that place.

MARIAGE

Marriage is fraught with many joys and challenges. Learning how to navigate them with relative ease and grace, before you get married, can make the transition to forever a little smoother.

The best time to work on challenges is right when they start creeping up, or even when you suspect there will be an issue, but it hasn’t reared its head yet. You can think of it as pulling up a small dandelion, with shallow roots.

Once that dandelion begins to grow, the roots get deeper, the seeds spread around, and pulling it out of the ground will take more effort and determination. Catch the dandelions early in your relationship, and work through them, so that they don’t spread around and make your relationship garden a weed bed.

With premarital counseling, I can help you create the strongest foundation possible for your upcoming commitment to each other.

Working together, we can focus on the strengths of your relationship and work through the pieces you feel you could use some guidance with.

Contact me today to schedule your free premarital counseling phone consultation.

My experience with Stephanie dictated and structured what health and well-being came to look like in my life. She is a master clinician. I came to her with more PTSD-type issues than I was even aware of. The somatic work, coupled with building trust, provided immense healing and restructuring for me. I'm eternally grateful.

Former Client

Stephanie has done her own ‘inner work’, as a person, a therapist, and a mother, to be able to offer solid skills of deep psychotherapy to her clients. Her own children display healthy, secure attachments, exuding the safety they feel inside, and expressing empathy palpably in the world. Stephanie is well qualified to help people of all ages to thrive, bond, and care for themselves, their families, and others.

Annie Brook, Ph.D., founder, The Brook Institute Somatic Attachment Trainings for Therapists Author of Birth's Hidden Legacy, and The Developing Infant

Stephanie is an esteemed colleague whom I consult when I need insight into a challenging case. I count on her knowledge and experience – particularly with pre- and perinatal psychology – and I trust her balanced and compassionate view of human relationships. I have worked alongside Stephanie for more than 15 years, and know first-hand that she is a warm, present, and gifted therapist and facilitator.

Suzanne Forrester, MA, LPC

Stephanie is a warm, kind, brilliant and compassionate therapist, who has devoted her life to creating healthy relationships and healthy attachments between humans. Stephanie has more hours of study, research and practice in this area than most clinicians I know. While extremely talented and competent, Stephanie is equally humble and approachable. One cannot help but to feel her care and understanding. If you are ready to take the next steps toward healing from trauma or attachment challenges, I highly recommend Stephanie Dueger to be your guide.

Katie Asmus MA, LPC, BMP Psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, professor and EMDR trainer