SYMBIS Marriage Readiness Package
Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts — and Building It to Last
Marriage is one of the most important commitments you’ll ever make — and it deserves preparation that goes deeper than planning a beautiful wedding day. As a certified SYMBIS (Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts) Facilitator, I offer couples a personalized, research-based roadmap for lifelong love.
Whether you're engaged, newly married, or seriously discerning marriage, this package helps you understand how your unique personalities, beliefs, expectations, and communication patterns influence your relationship.
We’ll explore:
--Your personality dynamics as a couple
--Emotional well-being and conflict resolution
--Family backgrounds and future expectations
--Beliefs around money, intimacy, and spirituality
--How to align on purpose, mission, and values
SYMBIS is more than a questionnaire — it’s a meaningful journey of self-discovery, deep connection, and intentional preparation for a love that lasts.
What’s Included:
SYMBIS Online Assessment (Each partner completes individually)
Three private sessions, /up to 90 minutes in length, to unpack your results.
Who This Is For:
--Engaged couples preparing for the sacrament of marriage
--Newlyweds navigating the early years
--Seriously dating couples discerning next steps
Investment: Offered as a structured package. Pricing varies based on format and setting. Please inquire for details.
Half-Day Intensive
A focused and personalized experience designed to help couples gain clarity, strengthen their relationship, and build a stronger foundation for the future. Whether you’re preparing for marriage or navigating the early years of marriage, this intensive provides a deep dive into key aspects of your relationship based on your unique needs.
What to Expect:
- Initial Consultation: Before your Half-Day Intensive, we begin with a 30-minute consultation to discuss your relationship dynamics, goals, and any areas of concern. This session ensures the intensive is tailored to your specific needs and provides clarity on what to expect. This is also the time where you can ask any questions you have about me and my coaching methods, and determine whether or not I am a good fit for you.
- Consultation Fee: $100 (applied toward your total cost if you proceed with the intensive). This fee is non-refundable to ensure commitment and respect for both our time.
- If we determine that this program isn’t the right fit, you’ll still leave with helpful insights and recommended next steps for your relationship.
- Consultation Fee: $100 (applied toward your total cost if you proceed with the intensive). This fee is non-refundable to ensure commitment and respect for both our time.
- 4-Hour Intensive: A focused, deep-dive session tailored to your relationship needs. Engaged couples can use this time to work through essential topics that lay a strong foundation for marriage, while married couples may focus on navigating major life transitions, strengthening connection, or overcoming recurring challenges. Whether it’s enhancing communication, aligning values, adjusting to parenthood, or preparing for lifelong commitment, this session is designed to bring clarity, growth, and renewed unity. If you're unsure where to focus, I can assess and structure the session accordingly.
- Follow-Up Support (4 Weekly 30-minute sessions): Over the next four weeks, we’ll meet once a week to reinforce what you’ve learned, provide accountability, and continue working toward your relationship goals.
- BONUS Email Support: Get additional guidance and support between sessions during business hours.
Each couple is unique, and this intensive is designed to meet you where you are - helping you gain deeper insight, improve communication, and build a relationship that lasts.
Investment: Offered as a structured package. Pricing varies based on format and setting. Please inquire for details.
Ongoing Coaching Available
If you find that further refinement is needed, additional coaching packages are available for continued growth and support.
Full-Day Intensive
A transformative and highly personalized experience designed to provide couples with deep insight, practical strategies, and lasting tools to strengthen their relationship. Whether you’re engaged and preparing for marriage or navigating that first decade of marriage, this intensive offers an in-depth exploration of key aspects of your relationship helping you build a strong and lasting marriage.
What to Expect:
- Initial Consultation: Before your Full-Day Intensive, we begin with a 30-40 minute consultation to discuss your relationship dynamics, goals, and any areas of concern. This ensures the intensive is tailored to your specific needs and gives you an opportunity to ask questions about my coaching methods to determine if I’m the right fit for you.
- Consultation Fee: $100 (applied toward your total cost if you proceed with the intensive). This fee is non-refundable to ensure commitment and respect for both our time.
- If we determine that this program isn’t the right fit, you’ll still leave with helpful insights and recommended next steps for your relationship.
- Consultation Fee: $100 (applied toward your total cost if you proceed with the intensive). This fee is non-refundable to ensure commitment and respect for both our time.
- 8-Hour Intensive: A comprehensive, focused, deep-dive session tailored to your unique relationship needs. Engaged couples can use this time to work through critical topics that lay a solid foundation for marriage, while married couples may focus on navigating major life transitions, strengthening connection, or overcoming recurring challenges. Whether it’s enhancing communication, aligning values, adjusting to parenthood, or preparing for lifelong commitment, this session is designed to bring clarity, growth, and renewed unity. If you're unsure where to focus, I can assess and structure the session accordingly.
- Follow-Up Support (4 Weekly 30-minute sessions): To reinforce the insights and strategies from your intensive, we’ll meet once a week over the next four weeks to provide continued support, accountability, and guidance tailored to your relationship goals.
- BONUS Email Support: Get additional guidance and support between sessions during business hours.
Each couple is unique, and this intensive is designed to meet you where you are - helping you gain deeper insight, improve communication, and build a relationship that lasts.
Investment: Offered as a structured package. Pricing varies based on format and setting. Please inquire for details.
Ongoing Coaching Available
If you find that further refinement is needed, additional coaching packages are available for continued growth and support.
Discernment Coaching
Not every relationship is meant to last a lifetime—but how do you know if yours should? This 3-session coaching process is designed to help individuals and couples reflect, assess, and gain clarity on whether to move forward in their relationship or step away with peace and confidence.
Step 1: Assess & Reflect (60 minutes)
Your discernment journey begins with a structured assessment of your relationship. We’ll explore key areas such as communication, shared values, emotional connection, and long-term compatibility. If needed, a faith-based relationship assessment may be incorporated to provide deeper insight.
Step 2: Guided Exploration & Honest Conversations (90 minutes)
Through structured discussions and exercises, we’ll uncover patterns, identify strengths and challenges, and clarify what is truly holding you back. For individuals, this means processing personal concerns and uncertainties. For couples, this includes exploring whether both partners are equally invested in the same future.
Step 3: Clarity & Next Steps (60 minutes)
By the final session, you’ll have a clearer understanding of your relationship’s trajectory. Whether that means moving forward with renewed commitment or recognizing that separation is the best path, you’ll leave with an action plan rooted in faith, wisdom, and emotional clarity.
Designed for:
-Individuals unsure if they should stay in a relationship
-Couples seeking clarity on whether to move forward together
Investment: Offered as a structured package. Pricing varies based on format and setting. Please inquire for details.
One-on-One Coaching
Whether you’re dating, engaged, or newly married, one-on-one coaching provides personalized guidance tailored to your unique relationship challenges and goals. These sessions offer a faith-based, practical approach to building a strong foundation, improving communication, and deepening your connection.
What Coaching Can Help With:
Strengthening Communication – Learn how to express yourself clearly and listen with understanding.
Navigating Conflict – Develop healthy conflict resolution skills to foster peace and connection.
Pre-Marital & Early Marriage Challenges – Address key topics like expectations, finances, roles, and family dynamics.
Major Life Transitions – Adjusting to engagement, marriage, parenthood, or other big changes.
Clarifying Relationship Goals – Gain clarity on your future together and ensure alignment in your vision.
Identifying and Overcoming Relationship Barriers – Address recurring issues and break unhealthy patterns.
Flexible Coaching Packages:
Single Session (90 minutes) – For focused guidance on a specific challenge.
3-Session Package – Ideal for addressing a key issue with actionable steps.
5-Session Package – Deeper support for ongoing growth and relationship strengthening.
10-Session Package – Comprehensive coaching for long-term transformation.
Assessments: Available as part of select packages or as an add-on for deeper insights into your relationship dynamics.
Consultation Fee: A $100 consultation is required before booking a coaching package. This session allows us to discuss your needs and ensure we’re a good fit. If you move forward with a coaching package, the fee is applied toward your total cost. If you decide not to continue, the fee is non-refundable.
Discounts available for bundled packages.
Not sure which option is best for you? Schedule a consultation to discuss your needs and find the right fit.
Group Coaching
A structured and supportive space for individuals and couples to grow in their relationships while learning from others on a similar journey. Whether you're preparing for marriage, navigating newlywed life, or seeking clarity in your relationship, group coaching offers faith-based insights, practical strategies, and meaningful discussions in a small, supportive setting.
What to Expect:
- Small, faith-centered groups that foster connection and shared learning
- Weekly sessions covering topics like communication, conflict resolution, emotional intimacy, and relationship discernment
- Guided exercises, discussions, and real-life applications
- Encouragement and accountability from a like-minded community
Programs are available for individuals and couples, with separate groups tailored to specific needs. Each group has a defined start and end date to ensure a structured and intentional experience.
More details coming soon!
Retreats
A Transformative Getaway for Your Relationship
Step away from the distractions of daily life and immerse yourselves in a dedicated time of growth, reflection, and connection. Our retreats offer couples a unique opportunity to deepen their bond, strengthen communication, and renew their commitment in a peaceful and rejuvenating setting.
These retreats are currently in development, and we’re working to create a transformative experience for couples. More details on locations, dates, and registration will be available soon—stay tuned!
Seminars & Speaking Engagements
A Sacred Vow offers seminars and speaking engagements for parishes, diocesan ministries, community organizations, schools, and groups seeking to strengthen marriage and family life in practical and meaningful ways.
These sessions are designed for audiences who value strong, healthy marriages, whether within a faith-based context or a broader community setting. Content is rooted in time-tested relational principles, informed by psychology, and—when appropriate—integrated with a Catholic understanding of marriage and the human person.
Seminars may be offered as:
- Parish or community-wide events
- Marriage preparation or enrichment programs
- Retreats or formation nights
- Professional or organizational gatherings
- Conferences or special events
Common topics include:
- Building a shared vision for marriage
- Communication and conflict skills for couples
- Strengthening marriage in the early and middle years
- Navigating stress, transition, and major life changes
- Foundations for resilient, values-centered relationships
- Supporting marriage and family life within a community
Speaking engagements are customized based on audience, format (in-person or virtual), and desired outcomes. Content is developed in collaboration with organizers to ensure relevance, respect for the setting, and alignment with the group’s values.
Investment: Seminars and speaking engagements are offered as flat-fee packages and vary based on format, length, and scope. Reduced rates may be available for parish or diocesan partners. Please contact me to discuss your event or organization’s needs.
Parishes & Catholic Ministries
A Sacred Vow partners with Catholic parishes, diocesan offices, and Catholic organizations seeking to support marriage and family life in intentional, practical ways. Offerings are designed to complement existing parish initiatives while responding to the real challenges couples face in the early and middle years of marriage.
Parish-based services focus on formation rather than therapy, providing structured, accessible programming that strengthens communication, shared purpose, and relational resilience. Content is grounded in sound psychological principles and informed by a Catholic understanding of marriage, human dignity, and vocation, while remaining approachable for couples at varying levels of faith practice.
Partnerships may include:
- Marriage preparation enrichment and formation nights
- Early marriage and newlywed support programming
- Parish retreats or half-day intensives
- Workshops aligned with marriage and family life initiatives
- Support and formation for ministry leaders serving couples
Rather than offering one-size-fits-all programming, A Sacred Vow works collaboratively with parish or diocesan leadership to discern current needs within the community. Services are adapted from established frameworks and presented in a way that respects local priorities, pastoral structure, and Church teaching.
Programming may be offered in-person or virtually and can be structured as single events or multi-session experiences. Parish and diocesan offerings are structured and priced separately from private coaching services to ensure accessibility and alignment with ministry budgets.
If your parish or ministry is seeking thoughtful, values-centered support for strengthening marriage and family life, Sacred Vow welcomes the opportunity to begin a conversation.