Premarital and Newlywed
Counseling & Education
So, you have found each other! Now you are ready to leap into the next phase of your life: Marriage! This is such a significant step, and one that is exciting and worthy of celebration. At The EFT Counseling and Education Center, we have a team of uniquely trained therapists skilled in how to establish, build, and preserve your newly developing relationship. Using our Lasting Connection System® (floor mats), and our Building A Lasting Connection® program, we offer you the tools you will need to fortify your connection and skills necessary to navigate the challenges every couple faces in the journey of marriage.
We offer a premarital counseling package, that includes the Lasting Connection® coursework personalized for you, with the option to continue counseling at your therapist’s typical rate if you so choose. The premarital package is customized for you to help you prepare as a couple for a most stable and fulfilling marriage, to identify and reinforce your strengths, and improve the areas needing growth. Each session will be customized and catered to the unique needs of your relationship.
The objectives of the package are to teach couples, within an active and practice-based setting, how to create and preserve a foundation of secure attachment in their new and developing relationship.
With a new understanding of attachment theory and attachment needs,
couples will:
The Building A Lasting Connection® (BLC) program is designed to provide couples the skills they need to keep the spark alive throughout their lifetime. Using our Lasting Connection System® mats, couples will discover the process of expressing hopes, exploring possibilities, addressing concerns, and working together to discover solutions to whatever issues and conflicts life may bring, as well as how to share thoughts, feelings and needs in a manner that ensures validation and understanding between partners.
The Connection System® is a groundbreaking and innovative method that guides couples seeking to connect to share in a more full, authentic, deep and meaningful manner. This Connection System® is not only experiential, it slows down the process of communication between you and your partner to facilitate emotional expression while exploring possibilities, navigating problem solving, turning around conflict and finishing the conversation feeling supported, understood and, yes, connected.
Attachment
Neuroscience
THE PRICE OF THIS ENTIRE PREMARITAL COUNSELING PACKAGE
*This is the upfront, pay-in-full price for working with select therapists. Call 385-777-6357 or email: info@eftclinic.org to find out which therapists are currently doing the premarital package. If you wish to pay as you go, or work with a specific BLC therapist, it will be at their typical rate per 50 minute session. You can check out our therapists availability and rate by clicking HERE.
What to expect from your five sessions:
Your therapist will cater your premarital package to you and your relationship. That means this is not a strict guideline, but a general idea of what to expect based on the Lasting Connection® relationship pyramid.
The foundational level of security is built on creating and maintaining secure attachment.
You will learn about attachment style and what universally need as human beings in the context of each of our upbringing and cultural context.
The is a reason emotion matters, and learning the process of emotion has a lot to do with how well we are able to listen, open up and use communication to understand and be understood.
Communication is one of the might frequent concerns couples identify to relational breakdown.
This session will give you knowledge and experience so you can build real skill in communicating what really matters.
The foundational level of security is built on creating and maintaining secure attachment.
You will learn about attachment style and what universally need as human beings in the context of each of our upbringing and cultural context.
The is a reason emotion matters, and learning the process of emotion has a lot to do with how well we are able to listen, open up and use communication to understand and be understood.
Communication is one of the might frequent concerns couples identify to relational breakdown.
This session will give you knowledge and experience so you can build real skill in communicating what really matters.
Creating a context of growth, traditions, and rituals is additional glue for happy couples and families across the lifespan. This session helps you evaluate, keep & create uniquely meaningful goals, traditions and rituals to wrap up your relationship & family with moments that say I love, I matter, we belong together.
These are the five essential pillars that, based on strong empirical evidence, encompass every aspect of a healthy relationship. Research has shown these principles can help you build, grow, and preserve your new and lasting relationship. In the initial phase of your 5 Lasting Connection® sessions, your therapist will skillfully customize your program to meet your specific needs. Each couple brings unique and important needs, and using the principles in this remarkable program, you will be much better prepared to achieve a more fulfilling and lasting marriage.
Pre- and Post-Marital Sessions
Some couples choose to extend beyond the core 5 sessions to focus on their specific relationship needs, and to strengthen some of the skills they learned.
We offer you the freedom to work with your therapist to make your premarital (and post- marital) counseling package unique and tailored to your relationship.
If you are looking for premarital (or newlywed) counseling, call or text us today! Contact information below.