Pre-Marriage Counselling

Set your relationship up for success
 

Pre-marriage, Pre-commitment, or Pre-baby!

Whatever your reason, setting your relationship up for success is always a great investment for couples.

Pre-marriage / Pre-commitment

Planning a wedding can be an exciting experience… and, of course, it is just as important to prepare for your life together ever after! Pre-marriage or pre-commitment preparation provides strategies and skills to help you design a life together, stay connected over time, and tackle life’s adventures!

Pre-baby?

Having a baby is a beautiful, challenging, rewarding experience, and one for which arguably we can never be fully prepared. You can, however invest time in building skills you’ll need every day enfacing the challenges and joys your bundle will bring your way. (It’s just as important as a baby-moon, we promise!)

So, while you’re ‘nesting’ in your home to make a lovely place for baby, take a little time to feather the nest of your relationship; the love you model is the real nest that gives baby a sense of secure attachment.

So, how do you want to do this?

We want… regular (e.g. weekly) sessions

Tailor made for the two of you!

Complete the Prepare Enrich survey and four 50 minute sessions; face-to-face and Zoom available.

We want… the fastest possible way

Done in half a day!

Tailor made using the Prepare Enrich survey. Face to face or via Zoom. Perfect if you’re short on time.

 Schedule Pre-Marriage Counselling with a Qualified Male or Female Practitioner

 

Invest in pre-marriage counselling and learn how to sustain a successful relationship through education, communication training and the other strategies we provide. Prepare for your joint future by acquiring the necessary skills to keep you happily connected throughout the years.

 

How Can Pre-Marriage Counselling in Brisbane Strengthen Your Relationship?

Let us help with issues including spiritual beliefs, conflict resolution, personality differences, families of origin unease, financial management, sex and long-lasting romance concerns, and stress profiles, among others.

  • You can protect and enrich your relationship through a lasting friendship, the creation of shared meaning, and conflict management. Learn how by attending our private, tailored pre-marriage or couple’s counselling sessions. Our psychologist and couples therapist are trained in Prepare Enrich and Gottman Method Couple’s Therapy.

  • We will assess your relationship after each has completed a detailed relationship inventory. We combine research-based interventions to intensify understanding and empathy within your relationship and eliminate any barriers that may have caused a sense of stagnation.

  • We can help you mend past hurts, build positive interactions, deepen your emotional connection, make changes that will enhance your friendship, and motivate you to achieve shared goals. We also have ways to prevent relapses when you have moved forward.

  • We work towards deactivating conflicting verbal communication and increasing feelings of affection, respect, and intimacy to help you reconnect, refocus, and reimagine your life together.

The Professional Celebrants Association, Catholic Church, and other religious denominations endorse and recommend our pre-marriage counselling services. Many couples choose to go through the counselling process with us because their pastor, priest, or celebrant requires or recommends it. Many other couples choose to undergo pre-marriage counselling as a way of preparing for the marriage, as well as the wedding. We can provide a certificate or letter once you have completed the sessions.

 

The Enduring Advantages of Pre-Marriage Counselling in Brisbane

You have decided to get married because of a shared sense of trust and commitment. You require skills to continue turning towards rather than away from each other, frequently express your respect and appreciation, and develop a positive approach to solving problems.

  • Several elements are central to a successful, long-term union. You want to know and understand each other’s history, stresses, doubts, psychological world, hopes, and joys.

  • Ideally, couples should cultivate admiration and affection and cherish each other’s positive characteristics. Communicate your needs, aspirations, values, and convictions honestly, and respond to each other positively.

  • You need to know your partner will always have your back - and vice versa - and that both of you are willing to work on the challenges occurring along the way.

Counselling empowers you with approaches to help you cope with the conflicts that will inevitably befall you. You cannot resolve all disagreements but can learn to manage conflict in a way that maintains respect and builds connection.

 

More About Lighthouse Relationships Psychology & Counselling

Megan Kozak holds Masters level qualifications, is an accredited Prepare/Enrich Pre-Marriage Counsellor, and a Gottman Method Couples Therapy specialist. Her husband and life partner, Nahum Kozak, is a psychologist with two Masters degrees and offers skills in the Gottman Method, cognitive behavioural therapy, and acceptance commitment therapy.

Contact us to make an appointment before your big day and identify the building blocks required for a loving, satisfying marriage.