SYMBIS Premarital Counseling
SYMBIS is a marriage prep tool. SYMBIS certified counselors use the results of couple’s unique assessments to guide the couple through discussing expectations, typical conflict areas such as money, sex, and division of household and family responsibilities. Learn how to leverage each other’s personality strengths and speak the love language of your partner fluently to avoid unappreciated efforts and misplaced his proven framework has helped millions of couples strengthen their foundation or improve an existing partnership.
It is never too late to find value through SYMBIS. Although originally created as a premarital tool, many married couples have found this work extremely valuable in improving communication and teamwork within their marriage.
“The SYMBIS Assessment provided insights into how our personalities mesh and our pre-marital counselor gave us useful tools and advice to coincide with the assessment. We’re better off as individuals and as a couple after going through the SYMBIS program.”
— Chris & Leeanna (SYMBIS couple)
Framework
Step 1: Prior to your first session, each member of the couple individually and privately completes a 30-minute online questionnaire (your counselor will email you individual links)
Step 2: The results of each questionnaire are combined into the couple’s unique SYMBIS Assessment, which the counselor will provide to the couple at their first session
Step 3: The counselor then guides the couple through topics using the assessment as a guide, typically over the course of six 90-minute sessions*
*Note: the SYMBIS book and workbook are not required
Step 4: Go forth into your marriage with clearer communication, understanding what expectations you bring into the relationship based on your background, and with a deeper appreciate and commitment to one another!
Studies show premarital counseling helps build a stronger, more successful marriage. There is a 30 percent higher marital success rate for couples who received counseling before their wedding than those who did not.
Web MD
Background
First published in 1995, and continually revised and updated, SYMBIS has become the gold standard in marriage preparation. Drs. Les & Leslie Parrotts’ award-winning approach incorporates twenty years of feedback, research, and professional experience. Les is a professor of psychology at Northwest University, Leslie has a background as a marriage and family therapist, and together they are founders of the Center for Healthy Relationships on the campus of Olivet University.