Premarital Counseling Therapists in Fort Worth, TX

Premarital Counseling

In-person or virtual counseling in north Fort Worth to meet your unique needs.
Open days, evenings, and weekends to meet your availability.

Premarital Counseling

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We’re in-network with most major insurance companies and also offer lower self-pay fees through select staff.

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Life as a premarital couple can bring…

…conflict over important decisions

…unmet needs and unresolved hurt from past relationships

…differing perspectives, values, and beliefs

…a loss of trust in your partner

…tension from complicated family dynamics

…disappointment after an addiction relapse

…arguments about parenting, money, sex, or your extended family that leave you feeling unheard

…lingering effects of past abuse or trauma that make it hard to fully invest in your relationship

…questions about the future of your relationship

No matter your age and the stage of your relationship,

We’re here to walk with you toward a healthy, hopeful start to your marriage.

You can be the couple you want to be,

living differently than couples whose relationships have ended.

You can find meaning and purpose together

and understand how to make decisions to move forward.

You can heal from heartache, loss, and hurt

to build a meaningful, lasting relationship.

You can overcome negative patterns and habits

and support one another more fully.

You can accept what has happened in the past

and move forward with renewed hope.

The CCFAM Couples Therapy Process

Our goal is to create a responsive, personalized plan that supports growth in trust, communication, and conflict resolution—strengthening your relationship from the inside out.

In addition to couples therapy sessions, your treatment plan may also include individual counseling, tailored to your unique needs and relationship dynamics.

Session 1: Intake

This initial meeting is to discuss both of your individual backgrounds, as well as your relationship as a couple, current concerns, and specific needs. Together, we will explore how these challenges may be affecting daily life in your relationship and begin identifying areas of focus.

SYMBIS™ or Prepare Enrich™ will be sent to you and your partner by email to complete before Session 2.

Ongoing sessions: Continuing the Journey Together

We’ll explore the results of the assessment and collaborate to determine the most supportive approach based on the unique needs of your relationship.

In addition to premarital counseling sessions, your treatment plan may also include individual counseling—or a combination of both—tailored to your unique needs and relationship dynamics.

Our goal is to create a responsive, personalized plan that fosters growth in trust, communication, and conflict resolution—strengthening your relationship from the inside out.

Length of Couples Counseling

While every relationship is unique, premarital counseling usually lasts a minimum of 8 sessions. Some couples may benefit from a longer course of therapy depending on factors such as frequency of appointments, their individual temperaments, ongoing stressors, and implementation steps towards progress.

Our counselors are Twogether in Texas providers (which qualifies you for a discount on your Texas marriage license).

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You can contact us to schedule a session or book online with any of our staff—they can all meet with you in person or virtually. Appointments can be scheduled during any of our regular hours, including evenings and Saturdays.

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Reach out and connect directly with one of our friendly staff members by calling 817-232-9400. We're here to answer all your questions about couples counseling and guide you through the process with care.

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The CCFAM Counseling & Therapy Difference

At CCFAM, we are proud to offer a highly qualified and collaborative team of professionals, including Licensed Professional Counselors (LPC), Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists (LMFT), and Licensed Clinical Social Workers (LCSW). With this diverse range of credentials, we’re able to fully support our mission—Support on Life’s Journey, Opportunity to Heal, and Sifting of Values—for every member of your family.

Our team also includes LPC and LMFT Supervisors who provide direct supervision to LPC Associates, LMFT Associates, and LMSWs on staff. This built-in supervision model fosters a strong, growth-oriented practice culture and ensures that associates benefit from experienced, credentialed guidance throughout their clinical development.

The CCFAM Premarital Counseling Difference

CCFAM uses two assessments for premarital counseling:

SYMBIS ™ (Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts)

Prepare Enrich ™

Each of these are research-backed assessments that highlight each partner’s strengths, potential challenges, and relationship dynamics. The assessments provide insight into personality, communication styles, financial mindsets, and conflict resolution, equipping couples with a roadmap for a healthy marriage. 

Our owner is a Prepare Enrich Seminar Director and created CCFAM Training, which is a continuing education provider. Through CCFAM Training, we can certify our counselors as Prepare Enrich Facilitators for couples counseling. This allows our counselors to access valuable training at no cost, ensuring the best possible support for the couples we serve.

Topics in Premarital Counseling

Marriage is more than a wedding day—it’s a commitment in your relationship that requires preparation, intentionality, and wisdom. Premarital counseling is a powerful tool to help couples build a strong foundation, ensuring they walk into marriage with clarity and confidence. A thriving, healthy marriage doesn’t happen by chance: it takes dedication, self-awareness, and honest conversations about the things that matter most to each of you.

Conflict Resolution

Most conflict in relationships stems from real or perceived imbalance: one partner believes they are contributing more effort, care, or resources than the other. It can also often start with unmet needs and undetermined or undeclared hurt or resentment. Here at CCFAM, we can help you find the root causes of your conflict and provide a space to navigate reconciliation. Patterns learned in previous relationships can become your default setting, bringing destructive patterns into your relationship and continuing the cycle. It can be difficult to recognize and reverse the pattern. Couples counseling at CCFAM can help identify communication styles and triggers, understand how they affect your relationship, and develop healthier ways to manage conflict.

Finances

Finances may be a constant source of disagreement in your relationship. Differences in spending habits, attitudes toward debt, and financial goals can impact your relationship. Transitioning from single to married is hard on its own, but facing major expenses—like children, homes, cars, and education—or broader future plans can cause conflict between you and your partner as you determine when to spend and when to save. Couples counseling at CCFAM can help you uncover the reasons behind the financial conflict, explore expectations, learn how to identify emotions behind spending habits, recognize where communication is lacking, identify priorities in spending habits, budget wisely as a couple, and find unity in financial decision making.

Connection

Expectations, conflict, and lack of investment in your relationship can create a barrier to connection with your partner. Unmet needs and unspoken expectations can turn into frustration. Expectations about intimacy—whether it is too little, too much, or too focused on your partner—all have an impact on your relationship. Premarital counseling at CCFAM can help both of you communicate openly and honestly about the connection you desire for your relationship. By exploring both positive and harmful patterns, you can cultivate a deeper connection and greater fulfillment together.

Christian Faith

It’s important to discuss what faith means to each person, how it will shape your marriage, and how you’ll keep Christ at the center of your marriage and encourage spiritual growth for each other. Premarital counseling at CCFAM can incorporate a Christian perspective into your counseling sessions. Our counselors are equipped to integrate a Biblical worldview as requested, while respecting the individual values and beliefs of our clients. We provide support for personal growth alongside faith development, offering faith-based resources and information about local churches. Additionally, we maintain partnerships with churches that rely on us to provide premarital counseling rooted in biblical wisdom for their members.

Parenting With Children

Parenting brings life joy, added responsibility, and decision making. Children can become the focus of your relationship, where once you focused on each other. You and your partner likely have ideas and experiences from your own childhood leading to differing points of view about how to raise your children. Whether you are disagreeing over discipline or are unsure of how to help your child with their struggles, what may have initially been simple disagreements may now feel insurmountable. Couples counseling at CCFAM can provide the opportunity to express expectations, disappointments, and desires for both your relationship and for your child. Understanding the root sources of frustrations, clarifying shared goals, and maintaining a future-focused perspective, we help you navigate parenting through every stage of your child’s life and find unity as a family moving forward.

Addiction

Addiction erodes trust and damages relationships. You may feel defeated, insignificant, disappointed, manipulated, judged, ashamed, and powerless–like a failure caught in a cycle you can’t break. Couples counseling at CCFAM can guide you through processing emotions, recognizing key decision points, and building safeguards to restore and protect your relationship. We also offer additional resources for overcoming addiction, along with truth-centered steps toward lasting recovery.

Parenting Without Children

Talking about children before marriage is important because it helps you get on the same page about one of life’s biggest decisions. It gives you a chance to share your hopes, understand each other’s values, and plan for the future—so you can avoid surprises and grow together with clarity and confidence. Premarital counseling offers a supportive space to navigate this conversation with care. It helps you explore your differences, clarify expectations, and approach the topic of children with mutual understanding and respect.

Family and In-Laws

As you begin your marriage, you’re forming a new family—one where your shared values, priorities, and decisions matter most. That can sometimes mean navigating differing expectations from your extended families. Making intentional choices as a couple about traditions, holidays, and special occasions can help protect and strengthen your bond. When you prioritize each other, you lay the foundation for a relationship built on mutual respect and unity. Premarital counseling at CCFAM can explore both past traditions and priorities, as well as those that you would like to establish in your marriage in the future.

Your Questions Answered

Are your sessions offered in-person or virtually?

Our sessions are offered virtually or in–person in our north Fort Worth location.

Do you have someone who can meet my needs?

Our diverse staff represents a variety of ages and stages in life.

When is your staff available?

Appointments are available days, evenings, and on Saturdays.

What is the length of the counseling session?

53 minutes

How will I be billed for couples counseling?

If you are using insurance, coding for counseling with more than one individual in the session is a 26–minute code. Due to sessions lasting 53 minutes, each partner will be billed for the counseling appointment under their insurance and applicable copays will apply.

If you are not using insurance, the self–pay rate will be divided between you and your partner for the counseling appointment.

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