SYMBIS Premarital Counseling in Houston, TX
What is SYMBIS Premarital Counseling?
SYMBIS stands for Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts. It is an evidenced-based premarital counseling tool developed by authors and therapists Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott. At Boulevard Oaks Counseling Group, we offer SYMBIS premarital counseling Houston services to help couples build a strong foundation before marriage.
Why is SYMBIS important?
Preparing for marriage, or improving an existing marriage, leads to greater overall satisfaction within the marriage. In a society where the divorce rate is over 50% for first marriages (and 67% for second marriages), it is more important than ever to invest in your marriage before it starts.
Pre marriage counseling Houston couples receive through SYMBIS is also very beneficial for second marriages, with an additional assessment built-in for this scenario.
The SYMBIS assessment integrates faith and spirituality if that is important to the couple. It helps couples understand how their needs and personalities contribute to spiritual practices within marriage.
What is involved in SYMBIS Premarital Counseling?
SYMBIS is an online tool that allows engaged or newly married couples (or even couples who have been married for a while!) to log on individually and take an assessment. The assessment has questions about personality, family of origin, money and communication. The therapist receives the results and sets up a minimum of six sessions to review strengths, weaknesses, or caution flags identified by the assessment tool.
Together, at Boulevard Oaks Counseling Group, we talk about areas for individual growth or improvement. We also discuss what the couple needs to address within the relationship through SYMBIS Houston counseling.
Six areas in the SYMBIS assessment:
- Your Money Methods: Kick financial friction to the curb and ensure you realize your shared dreams together.
- Your Personalities: Unpack your unique personality dynamics not only as individuals but more importantly as a couple.
- Your Fight Types: Discover your “hot topics” and the secret of leveraging conflict for a stronger relationship.
- Your Talk Styles: Crack the code for deep and meaningful conversations to enjoy heartfelt and lasting connections.
- Your Love Life: Cultivate deeper intimacy and enduring passion for a lifetime of pleasure and fulfillment.
- Your Deepest Longing: Create your ultimate soul-to-soul connection and discover how to infuse your relationship with meaning.
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