About A Beautiful Marriage

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Portland counseling center, A Beautiful Marriage, is a unique Education Center for Relationships offering marriage counseling, couples counseling, and family counseling in a compassionate, non-judgmental and skill-based way. Our counseling workshops and programs, based on over 20 of the top "couples" programs in the U.S., include:

• Pre-marriage assessment and training,
• Ongoing marriage and couples training,
• Marriage and couples enhancement relationship training,
• Singles relationship training, and
• Help for couples who are separated or contemplating divorce.

A Beautiful Marriage began in 2005, offering four basic programs, and has grown and evolved to offer a comprehensive suite of programs centered on marriage coaching that empowers couples to deal with complex issues of intimate communication, how to feel close, reduce destructive conflict, and enhance sexual intimacy.

Experienced Counselors

The counselors at A Beautiful Marriage, supported by scientific research, understand how to predict whether a couple might be headed toward divorce. This knowledge, coupled with collective experience of over 35 years in counseling, and more than 80 years in education, gives our team the tools to provide couples the best chance to stay together, and identify what may pull them apart. Our extensive resources provide couples with literally hundreds of tools from top experts and from research done at major universities to evaluate their individual and collective needs.

At A Beautiful Marriage, our experience includes counseling couples struggling with such issues as addiction, extramarital affairs, abuse, past abuse, ADD/ADHD, sexual abuse, and anxiety and/or depression. In rare cases, when all else fails, we offer mediation to allow separating couples to part in peace, as well as support to those experiencing the trauma and pain of divorce.

Help When - and How - You Need It

A Beautiful Marriage is designed so that no couple will wait longer than two weeks to obtain an appointment to participate in an introductory session, during which the couple will design the balance of their program with the help of some initial assessments and their leader's recommendations. While each program is tailored to the couple's expressed needs and can be delivered in private sessions, any or all of the sessions taught may be also be provided in a group setting.

Long Term Relationship Skills

Living in a long term relationship takes skills which must be acquired. Since most of us were never taught how to achieve a great relationship, either by our parents or in any formal educational setting, we simply don't know about the "emotional intelligences" that safe, passionate relationships require.

The in depth programs offered at A Beautiful Marriage not only explain what to do, they provide partners and singles with the tools and "how to" steps to gain the emotional and behavioral skills crucial to successful, fulfilling and lasting relationships.