Grow better together by engaging a relationship assessment.

Premarital and marriage assessments provide the space and opportunity to truly celebrate all that is going well in your relationship as well as thoughtfully grow together where it matters the most!

Below are the top three marriage assessments, both for premarital couples and married couples.

As you read the descriptions, which one is the one for you and your beloved?

Why engage a premarital assessment?

Whether you are seriously dating or engaged, a premarital assessment is a key component of preparing well for a lifetime of love. A few benefits include:
  • Gain confidence in your relationship
  • Celebrate your relationship strengths
  • Understand the value of how your personalities uniquely mesh
  • Discover your growth edge as a couple
  • Uncover and sort out the hidden expectations that often trip up couples
  • Establish life-giving and healthy relationship skills
  • Reduce your risk of future divorce
  • Take purposeful and customized steps to growing together
  • In short - set your marriage up for success!

Premarital Assessment Options

for Seriously Dating and Engaged Couples

Option #1: SYMBIS

Top Features of the SYMBIS (Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts):
  • Give an in-depth look at how your unique personalities combine and how best to leverage your unique dynamics 
  • Discover the underlying meaning of money and how to thrive together financially
  • Understand your talk styles, your fight types, and how to best resolve a conflict given your unique personality mix
  • Learn specifically how to enhance your intimacy together
  • An additional page is provided if you are remarrying
  • NOTE: You will receive the pages of your report after we talk about them in each session. You receive the same report I (your coach) receives.

Cost and Number of Sessions:
  • The cost of the assessment is $35 per couple.
  • At a quick pace, the SYMBIS assessment can be unpacked in four 90-minute sessions.
  • At a steady pace, the SYMBIS assessment can be unpacked in six 90-minute sessions.
  • Additional sessions can be added on as desired.

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Click on the image above to download a sample report.

Option #2: Prepare

Top Features of the Prepare:
  • Learn your top relationship strengths, celebrate how those became strengths, and discern ways to solidify those strengths
  • Discover your relationship growth areas and discern specific steps forward in turning those growth areas into strengths
  • Understand how to best enjoy and leverage your unique personalities and ways of being
  • Uncover the inter-workings of your relationship and how your families of origin impact your current ways of being
  • The assessment automatically adds scales based on your unique marriage: cross-cultural marriage scale, re-marriage, and parenting to name a few
  • NOTE: You will receive a condensed report with your overall scales. The content of our conversations will be provided in the report that only I, your coach, receives.

Cost and Number of Sessions:
  • The cost of the assessment is $35 per couple.
  • At a standard pace, the Prepare assessment can be unpacked in six 90-minute sessions.
  • Additional sessions can be added on as desired.

Additional Resources:
  • Your coach will be able to provide PDF materials as desired
  • Click here for the Prepare/Enrich website
Click on the image above to download a sample report.

Assessments for Married Couples

Option #1: SYMBIS+ (Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts)

Top Features of the SYMBIS+:
  • Give an in-depth look at how your unique personalities combine and how best to leverage your unique dynamics 
  • Discover the underlying meaning of money and how to thrive together financially
  • Understand your talk talk styles, your fight types, and how to best resolve a conflict given your unique personality mix
  • Learn specifically how to enhance your intimacy together
  • An additional page is provided if this is not your first marriage
  • NOTE: You will receive the pages of your report after we talk about them in each session. You receive the same report I (your coach) receives.
  • Also, if you took the SYMBIS as a premarital couple, I would not advise taking the SYMBIS+. In that situation, I would recommend the Enrich or Gottman Check-up

Cost and Number of Sessions:
  • The cost of the assessment is $35 per couple.
  • At a quick pace, the SYMBIS assessment can be unpacked in four 90-minute sessions.
  • At a steady pace, the SYMBIS assessment can be unpacked in six 90-minute sessions.
  • Additional sessions can be added on as desired.

Additional Resources*:
Click on the image above to download a sample report.

Option #2: Enrich (the married version of the Prepare)

Top Features of the Enrich:
  • Learn your top relationship strengths, celebrate how those became strengths, and discern ways to solidify those strengths
  • Discover your relationship growth areas and discern specific steps forward in turning those growth areas into strengths
  • Understand how to best enjoy and leverage your unique personalities and ways of being
  • Uncover the inter-workings of your relationship and how your families of origin impact your current ways of being
  • The assessment automatically adds scales based on your unique marriage: cross-cultural marriage scale, re-marriage, and parenting to name a few
  • NOTE: You will receive a condensed report with your overall scales. The content of our conversations will be provided in the report that only I, your coach, receives. 
  • If you took the Prepare or Enrich at an earlier point in your relationship, you will still greatly benefit from this report as it will give you opportunity to celebrate how past growth areas have become new strengths as well as give you a map for next steps in growing together.

Cost and Number of Sessions:
  • The cost of the assessment is $35 per couple.
  • At a standard pace, the Prepare assessment can be unpacked in four 90-minute sessions.
  • Additional sessions can be added on as desired.

Additional Resources:
  • Your coach will be able to provide PDF materials as desired
  • Click here for the Prepare/Enrich website
Click on the image above to download a sample report.

Option #3: The Gottman Checkup

Top Features of the Gottman Checkup:
  • Understand what is going on in your relationship so you can take specific steps in improving it
  • Based on 50 years of research, gain clarity on what habits are supporting life-long love and which habits to improve
  • Gain clarity and clear explanations on the most critically important dimensions of your relationship
  • NOTE: This assessment takes 1-2 hours to complete.  It is more clinical in nature and as such, does not have a sample report for consideration.
  • For a lighter assessment, consider the Gottman Assessment which takes 20 minutes and covers 5 of the most critically important areas of your relationship

Cost and Number of Sessions:
  • The cost of the assessment is $39 per couple.
  • Often times, it is advised to pair the results of this assessment with the eight-week Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work course.
  • Additional sessions can be added on as desired.

Additional Resources*:

CliftonStrengths® Relationship Coaching 

for all couples



CliftonStrengths® Relationship Coaching

Top Features of the CliftonStrengths®:
  • Understand the innate talents, needs, and assets that you and your partner both bring to your marriage
  • Discover how your unique strength profiles uniquely come together
  • Uncover potential pitfalls and strategize for successful navigation
  • Clarify ways to leverage the best of both of you as you live out greater purposes of your relationship

Cost and Number of Sessions:
  • The CliftonStrengths® 34 Report costs $59.99 for each person.
  • If you are new to CliftonStrengths®, plan for six 90-minute sessions
  • If you already have a solid understanding of your Talent Themes, plan for four 90-minute sessions.
  • Additional sessions can be added on as desired.

Additional Resources*:

Your Relationship Coach

I thought about sharing my relationship coaching credentials here, but you can already read those on the front page of this site! So here is a deeper peek into who I am as a Relationship Coach!
Married 19 beautiful years to her best friend who also happens to be her opposite
Has professionally coached and educated couples of all ages and stages for 18 years
Knows firsthand the value of investing in marriage
Passionate about marriages thriving and flourishing
Greatly looks forward to meeting you and your beloved!

Your Next Steps

Interested in taking the next step? Below are the three simple steps to getting started.

1. Meet with Melissa

If you have not already, meet with Melissa via Zoom to clarify your goals as well as determine which assessment you would like to engage

2. Take your assessment

Once you share with Melissa which assessment you would like to use, she will send you an invitation email to take your preferred assessment

3. Schedule Your Session(s)

Once your assessment is complete and your Coaching Agreement has been returned to Melissa, schedule your first official session and prepare for a fruitful time together!

Your Relationship is worth it.

Couples who are more demanding of their marriage are more likely to have deeply satisfying unions than those who lower their expectations.
-John Gottman

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