Premarital counseling here is for engaged couples and for couples making a serious commitment. Nothing has to be wrong to make the call.
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The sessions cover subjects like these before the wedding:
The sessions will not create problems. They give existing ones a place to come up earlier than they otherwise would.
Almost every clinician at Prologue offers premarital counseling, and three of them are trained in the Gottman Method. Any of the three can run the Gottman Relationship Checkup. It's an optional add-on at $39 per couple, it asks more than 300 questions, and it's HIPAA-compliant.
No, you don't need it. Plenty of couples do just fine without it. The sessions assume the two of you are already good. They assume you want to keep it that way for the long haul. They add a set time to talk through the parts of married life that are easy to put off.
That can happen in the sessions. It's better to find out before the wedding. Couples therapy can help you work through a disagreement like that and build healthier communication. If one of you is unsure about staying in the relationship at all, discernment counseling is the process built for exactly that question.
Couples therapy is the better starting point if the two of you are already struggling. That's what it's built for. It gives you a structured way to keep them that way while you plan the wedding.
Prologue is a self-pay practice and doesn't participate in insurance panels. The biller can check your out-of-network benefits before treatment starts and file claims on your behalf. Reimbursement comes after your deductible is met. Rates vary by therapist. The free 15-minute call is where you hear the number before anything is booked.
No. Sessions run in person in Flemington, or online anywhere in New Jersey.
