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Group Therapy Workshops:
The 7 Principles for Making Marriage Work
This group therapy offering is designed for couples who want to strengthen their relationship using a research-based, practical, and deeply human approach. Based on The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work, this group focuses on building skills that support long-term connection, trust, and emotional safety rather than quick fixes or surface-level advice.
Group therapy provides a supportive and structured environment where couples can learn, practice, and reflect together. While every relationship is different, many couples struggle with similar patterns around communication, conflict, emotional distance, or feeling misunderstood. Being in a group allows couples to normalize these struggles while gaining insight, tools, and encouragement in a respectful and confidential setting.
The group is structured around the seven core principles that research has shown to be essential for healthy, lasting relationships. These principles help couples:
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Build a deeper friendship and emotional connection
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Increase understanding and appreciation for one another
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Improve communication and reduce harmful conflict patterns
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Learn how to manage disagreements in healthier ways
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Create shared meaning, values, and purpose as a couple
Rather than focusing on blame or who is “right,” this group emphasizes awareness, emotional attunement, and practical skills that can be applied in everyday life. Couples are guided to better understand their own patterns, their partner’s inner world, and how small, intentional changes can lead to meaningful shifts in the relationship.
This group is ideal for couples who want to be proactive about their relationship, rebuild connection, or strengthen an already stable partnership. The work is collaborative, respectful, and grounded in the understanding that relationships grow best when both partners feel seen, heard, and supported.
Group therapy is not about comparing relationships it is about learning, practicing, and growing together in a way that honors the uniqueness of each couple while providing a clear, supportive framework for change.
Enhance Your Love Maps
This principle focuses on truly knowing your partner’s inner world their hopes, stresses, values, fears, and daily experiences. Strong relationships are built on ongoing curiosity and emotional awareness of one another.
Let Your Partner Influence You
Healthy relationships involve mutual respect and flexibility. This principle emphasizes openness, shared power, and the ability to consider your partner’s perspective rather than becoming rigid or defensive.
Nurture Fondness and Admiration
Couples who maintain respect, appreciation, and positive regard for each other are more resilient during conflict. This principle helps couples intentionally notice and express what they value in one another.
Solve Your Solvable Problems
Some conflicts are practical and can be addressed with effective communication, compromise, and problem-solving skills. This principle teaches tools for discussing issues calmly and productively.
Turn Toward Each Other Instead of Away
Relationships grow through small, everyday moments of connection responding to bids for attention, support, or affection. Turning toward builds trust and emotional safety over time.
Overcome Gridlock
Many conflicts are rooted in deeper values, dreams, or meanings rather than surface issues. This principle helps couples understand what is underneath stuck patterns and learn how to honor differences without trying to “win.”
Create Shared Meaning
Strong couples develop a sense of shared purpose, rituals, values, and goals. This principle focuses on building a life together that feels meaningful, intentional, and connected.