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Office Hours
Mondays: 9:00 AM – 8:00 PM
Tuesdays: 9:00 AM – 8:00 PM
Wednesdays: 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Thursdays: 9:00 AM – 8:00 PM
Fridays: Administrative Day
Building Healthy Lives and
Families Since 1980
Invest In Your Marriage
Before It Begins
Premarital Counseling
Marriage is a journey to be shared. That journey begins the moment a couple meets and starts getting to know each other. Each person brings family traditions, education, cultural biases, life experiences, personal preferences, ideas, hopes, dreams and expectations into their new relationship. While these differences, when embraced, enrich and enhance a relationship, they also offer fertile ground for conflict and frustration. If conflicts are not handled in a healthy manner, they can devastate a once blissful relationship.
Christian Families Today offers premarital counseling to help you and your future spouse recognize the different aspects of your relationship and equip you with the skills that will allow you to avoid pitfalls that lead to the death of so many marriages today.
Investing In Your Marriage
Most couples spend more time planning their weddings than their marriages! A wedding is a fun and very important start to your life together, but it is just one day. Marriage is a big step and involves change for both the bride and the groom.
Christian Families Today strongly promotes pre-marital counseling to help all engaged couples build a strong foundation for a healthy life-long relationship. Getting married without premarital preparation is like starting a business or any important venture without a plan. Most engaged couples assume their marriage will not fail. However, in reality, half of all marriages do end in divorce, and only 40% of those currently married are happy with their marriage.
In all the excitement of your wedding plans, make sure you take some time and work on your marriage plans with one of our trained premarital counselors.
Aspects of Premarital Counseling at CFT
Premarital counseling will look at the unique God-given design of each person and help the couple to see their differences as strengths. Growing together emotionally, mentally and spiritually is key to a life-long friendship in marriage. Here are some specific components of a healthy marriage covered in the sessions:
- Establishing and understanding Identity in Christ
- Understanding inner needs (love, respect, significance, worth and value) and how a person gets their needs met
- Discovering each person’s unique coping mechanisms (flesh patterns) used to get needs met apart from God and learning how these flesh patterns lead to chaos and conflict in relationships
- Learning how to overcome flesh patterns in order to experience harmony in marriage
- Identifying expectations that become barriers to a successful marriage and learning how to deal with unmet expectations in a healthy way
- Learning wholesome ways to communicate and resolve conflict
- Understanding how to give and ask for forgiveness
An Added Bonus
In the state of Georgia you can receive a discount on your marriage license if you have completed pre-marital counseling from an approved counselor. Upon completion of your premarital counseling at Christian Families Today, your counselor will give you a notarized form for you to take with you to your county probate court when you apply for your license. More information about obtaining a marriage license can be found on the website of your county’s probate court.
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Testimonies
What others are saying about counseling at Christian Families Today
“The office was very warm and inviting in what was a very tense situation. The young lady at the front desk was the perfect fit for the job. Kudos. The concept of identity and the [Exchanged Life] process was life changing. The concept and its practice could absolutely change the face of the church….. especially organized religion. Thank you!!!”
A Counselee“The uniqueness of CFT Counseling is found in a philosophy built around helping people better understand who they are in Christ and how this relationship with Christ can impact the emotional, relational, and spiritual struggles we face in life. I find such an approach refreshing and needed.”
A Counselee“Through your counsel, we have learned to deal with our problems in a biblical manner. We better understand who we are in Christ and are not affected to a great degree by outside influences. We also have the knowledge to fight spiritual battles and live a more victorious Christian life.”
A Counselee