So you have decided as a couple to invest in your marriage. Wonderful! You will not regret it. Here's what's next. Step One: Email us at dknappen@gmail.com and let us know that you would like to begin this journey. We will send you assessment questionnaires that are very thorough. Your answers to these questions will assist us in discerning your marriage strengths and weaknesses. We will also send you disclosures that you must sign in order for us to advise you. Those disclosures protect both of us, you the mentees, and us the mentors. Once you have answered all the questions and signed the disclosures, we will score them for you.

Step two: Schedule a visit to our office. The appointment calendar for available openings will be posted on this website, but appointments are best made via email. Once the assessments have been scored and the disclosures are signed, we can begin. Our first session will be spent getting to know one another, developing trust and hearing from you what you hope to accomplish through our sessions together.

The following sessions will be focused on the various areas of a healthy marriage. Your assessments will assist me to know what areas need the most work and which ones can be addressed later. Eventually we will discuss every area together and use various tools and resources that I have found to be very helpful in making marriages grow to levels that both husband and wife find fulfilling. Eventually we will cover topics such as improving communication skills, conflict resolution skills, overcoming the hurt feelings from a regrettable incident, how to overcome perpetual issues, parenting, romance and friendship.

In each of the areas we address, the couple will get homework assignments to work on during the week. The approach will be mainly dyadic, meaning the two of you will be the ones doing the lion's share of the work. We will provide the tools, but you will be practicing at home together on the suggestions we make. In other words if we challenge you to consider spending twenty minutes a day in together-time discussing the day's events, then it will be up to you to spend that time together and evaluate at the end of the week just how much that has improved your relationship and whether or not it would be valuable to make it a daily and sacred time in your schedules.