Pre-Marital Coaching (SYMBIS)
Pre-marital coaching here is built around SYMBIS — Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts — one of the most widely used and respected pre-marital assessments in the world. Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott developed SYMBIS after decades of research into what makes marriages last, and what predicts the early ruptures that derail otherwise loving couples.
The assessment generates a deeply personalized report on the two of you as a couple — your strengths, the places friction is most likely to show up, and the conversations you’ll be glad you had before the wedding.
What you'll explore together:
- How you each handle conflict — and how that combination tends to play out under stress
- Money: spending styles, hopes, fears, and how to plan as a team
- Sex and intimacy expectations, openly and without awkwardness
- Family of origin — what you each learned about marriage growing up, and what you want to do differently
- Roles and household rhythms in a modern marriage
- Spiritual life, faith, and shared meaning
- Children — whether, when, and how you want to parent
- Your individual personalities and how to bring out the best in each other
How it works:
We start with a brief intake, then each of you completes the SYMBIS assessment online (about 30 minutes apart). I review your joint report carefully before we meet, and we work through it across a small number of focused sessions — typically four to six.
Sessions are warm, practical, and honest. Plenty of laughter, sometimes a few tears, and always real conversations you can carry into the rest of your marriage.
You're choosing to build something meant to last.
The strongest predictor of a flourishing marriage isn’t how compatible you feel on the wedding day — it’s the skills you bring to the work of staying close. Pre-marital coaching gives you those skills before you need them.
Whether you’re six months out from the wedding or six weeks, this is exactly the right time. Couples who do this work consistently report that their first year of marriage is dramatically easier than they expected.
SYMBIS doesn’t replace your other wedding preparation — the venue, the family conversations, the rings. It complements all of it by preparing the marriage itself, not just the wedding day.
Let's prepare for marriage the way the best research says actually helps.
Reach out for a free 15-minute consultation, or book your first SYMBIS session directly through our calendar.