VANCOUVER PRE-MARITAL COUNSELING

“My third marriage was a month away, my 62^nd birthday two weeks past. I’d been there, done that. My relationship with P. felt right most of the time but small things were rearing their ugly little heads that brought back memories of past stuff and it scared me to death. It was hard to reach out for help, completely out of my comfort zone but I knew I had to try something different. Thank you, Dianne, for showing me that old patterns aren’t forever. I can’t change P. and you know what? I don’t want to. I can only change the way I react to P. My only regret is it took so long to figure this one out”.

- R, Whistler

Regardless of age or marital history, couples who are planning to marry or cohabitate and are experiencing conflict in their relationships will benefit from addressing the issues contributing to the conflict before they get bigger. We facilitate the process of precisely naming the concerns of our clients and creating a strategy to address them that is transferable to inevitable future conflict.

“Our wedding date was set, everyone was on board but I was starting to see some patterns with my fiancé that really bothered me. I basically told him that I wasn’t prepared to marry him unless he agreed to talk to a relationship counsellor with me. By the end of session one with Dianne we had a really good grasp on where we were starting to go off-track and we left that evening with some stuff to work on right away. By the end of session four we felt confident that we could tackle the stuff that we knew would probably come our way in the future. We got married two months ago and I walked down that aisle knowing we were going to be okay. We saw Dianne for a total of five sessions and we’ll probably go back once every six months or so for a check-in. I’m so grateful that we reached out at a time when it would have been easier to get wrapped up in ‘getting’ married instead of ‘being’ married."

- S,West Vancouver