Pre-marriage Preparation

for heterosexual and same-sex couples

• Saint Mark's Counseling Service:
  • Therapy Services
  • Pre-Marriage Preparation
  • How to Get Started

• We honor and value the Sacrament of Marriage in the Episcopal Church by providing six fifty-minute pre-marriage counseling sessions, specially designed to meet the unique needs of each couple within the Spiritual framework.
• Counseling focuses on interpersonal communication, conflict resolution, finances, children, spirituality, sexuality, role adjustment, re-marriage, blending families and other topics related to the unique situation of each couple.
• A Pre-Marriage Inventory or Reflection Questionnaire explores the couple’s attitudes and expectations about marriage.
• Family mapping helps the couple explore, clarify and understand the “family of origin” themes and patterns that affect the health of their present relationship.
• A summary will be provided to the officiating clergy.