Premarital Counseling
Your wedding day will come and go, but your marriage will last a lifetime.
Love is a Science. We know what creates a good marriage and what creates a bad marriage.
Premarital Counseling is like preventive health care for your marriage.
Oh my gosh! Congratulations. You are engaged to be married. This is the day you have thought of all of your mature life. And, it is finally here!
There is so much to do. You have to find a venue, a florist, a caterer. Decisions have to be made, like do we get a DJ or a band? And, don’t forget about the dress! Oh yes, the dress! There is so much to do and so much to be excited about.
One thing many couples forget about is premarital counseling. Sure, things might be great now. But, what about when you can’t decide where to buy a house or where to send the kids to school? What if one of you develops an unhealthy spending habit? Do you know how to talk about these things without becoming critical or defensive?
The average cost of a wedding is $30,000 (according to The Knot). Make an investment in your relationship before making the investment in the rest of your life together.
Reasons to Begin Premarital Counseling in Overland Park and Leavenworth, KS and Liberty, MO
While everyone decides to get premarital counseling for different reasons, here are some great reasons to begin premarital counseling:
It is better to be proactive and learn healthy ways of communicating with each other.
You may not have had the best role models growing up who could show you what a healthy relationship looks like and you want to break the cycle.
We are wired to connect. Couples come to learn how to connect better and manage conflict.
It might be required by your church or officiant
Weddings can be monetarily expensive. But, divorce is emotionally expensive.
Premarital Counseling for a Lifetime of Love
We get tons of calls from married couples looking for help resolving conflicts, learning how to communicate better, and even how to forgive after an affair. We bet every one of these couples said, “this won’t happen to us.”
We prefer to help couples learn how to relate to each other BEFORE problems start to appear. Love is a science and our therapists work with couples to learn the elements of a healthy successful marriage with a lifetime of loving each other.
Couples must go deeper than just learning communication skills and conflict resolution. These two strategies alone are not enough. So, premarital counseling in Overland Park, KS, Leavenworth, KS, and Liberty, MO will help you address the foundational needs of all relationships.
The JS Therapy Group Approach to Premarital Counseling
Romantic love is no longer a mystery. In fact, most arguments and conflicts are really protesting against disconnection. We will help you identify those negative patterns of interaction that create disconnection and conflict for you and your partner. After we show you how to identify the negative patterns, we will show you how to create a new pattern of interaction that will foster emotional accessibility and responsiveness.
As mammals want to know and feel that we can depend on our partner to be there for us when we need comfort, that our partner will respond to our emotional needs. We need to feel like we matter to our partners and that we are valued and accepted by them. In counseling, we teach you and your partner how to communicate these feelings with each other so you do not end up hurting each other.
We use the ideas of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and Attachment Theory to help our premarital couples. Outcome studies of EFT have shown to help couples in distress improve interactions and reconnect. Actually, approximately 75% of couples who complete the entire EFT process report reduced distress and approximately 90% of those couples report significant improvement. We’ll help you learn how to take a detour around distress and skip right to happiness.
We provide services to all individuals, couples, and families without discrimination on the basis of race, age, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, disability, gender, health status, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, or relationship status.
Details About Premarital Counseling At JS Therapy Group
Premarital Counseling is not therapy, but rather an educational experience.
Building A Lasting Connection™ Premarital Counseling Workshop: 2-Day (10 hours) Workshop ~ $349
Couples meet either in person at our Overland Park location or via online therapy in Kansas and begin to learn and experience how to build a connection that can help your love last for your entire lifetime. The main goal of the BLC program is to help premarital couples and couples with a newly-developing relationship have a better understanding of what happens on the inside and how this impacts their partner as well as helping couples understand what happens on the inside of their partner. The BLC program is based on the idea of secure attachment which leads to a strong and securely bonded relationship.
Section 1: Attachment
Section 2: Communication
Section 3: Managing Differences
Section 4: Physical Connection
Section 5: Goals: You ~ Me ~ Us
Please click here for dates of upcoming Building A Lasting Connection™ Workshops
Protect your new marriage with Premarital Counseling in Overland Park, KS, Premarital Counseling in Leavenworth, KS and Premarital Counseling in Liberty, MO:
Premarital Counseling can help you feel the excitement you feel now for the rest of your lives together. Our Leavenworth, Overland Park, and Liberty, MO therapy centers have caring therapists who specialize in Premarital Counseling. To start your counseling journey in the Kansas City metro, follow these simple steps:
Meet with one of our caring premarital therapists
Learn how to keep feeling love and connection for the rest of your lives!
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Other Counseling Services at JS Therapy Group
Premarital Counseling is not the only service we offer in our Leavenworth and Overland Park counseling centers. Other mental health services JS Therapy Group provides include addictions counseling, play therapy, trauma and PTSD treatment, trauma therapy and PTSD treatment for children, family therapy, couple and marriage counseling, and anxiety treatment. We also offer professional consultations and supervision opportunities. If you can’t make it to see one of our therapists for in-person counseling, consider online therapy in Kansas to meet your mental health needs. Contact us to get started or click on one of the links to learn more.