You know the venue, the colors, the guest count, and who absolutely cannot sit beside whom at the reception.
But have you talked about debt?
What happens if one career requires a move? How involved will your families be? Do you want children? What does “fair” mean when one person is carrying more of the household load?
These conversations are not nearly as fun as cake tasting.
They are also far more important to the life you are building.
Premarital counseling gives you a place to talk honestly before assumptions turn into resentment.
I am not looking for reasons you should not get married.
I am helping you understand the relationship you are already creating.
Strong couples still have differences. The goal is not to agree about everything before the wedding. It is to know how to talk about the things that matter without panicking, avoiding, or trying to win.
If one or both of you have been married before, we are not starting with a blank page.
There may be children, former partners, custody schedules, financial obligations, grief, and understandable fears about repeating the past.
Standard premarital counseling often misses the questions blended couples most need to ask. We will not.
We’ll talk about stepparent roles, discipline, boundaries between households, money across families, and how to protect the new relationship without asking children to pretend their previous family never existed.
If faith matters to you, it belongs in the room.
We can talk about the values you want your marriage to reflect, the role of a faith community, differences in belief or practice, and the expectations each of you absorbed about marriage growing up.
No performance. No assumptions. Just an honest conversation about what you want to build.
Start with a free 15-minute consultation.
I’ve spent more than 13 years working with couples at every stage of a relationship, including many who came to me while planning a wedding. My training in Emotionally Focused Therapy and the Gottman Method gives us a structured way to talk about the things that matter — money, family, children, conflict — without it turning into an argument. If you’re remarrying, I also bring direct experience with the blended-family and second-marriage questions that standard premarital counseling often misses.
I’m licensed to practice in South Carolina (LMFT License #8422).
No. Most couples I work with aren’t in crisis — they simply want to build good habits and talk honestly about expectations before the wedding rather than after.
I’m not looking for reasons you shouldn’t marry, and I won’t make that decision for you. The goal is to help you understand the relationship you’re already building and learn how to talk about hard topics without avoiding or panicking.
Often not entirely. Standard premarital counseling can miss questions specific to blended families — stepparent roles, discipline, boundaries between households, and money across families. We’ll cover those directly.
No — if faith matters to you, we can include it in the conversation on your terms; if it doesn’t, we won’t force it into the work.
Yes. I offer hybrid care — in-person sessions in Greenville and secure virtual sessions for clients across South Carolina.
If you would like to book an initial, complementary 15-minute consultation.
