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title: "Premarital Counseling in Maryland · Online Couples Sessions"
url: https://cghealththerapy.com/premarital-counseling
description: "Premarital counseling for couples across Maryland by secure video, using the Gottman method with Hélène Ndoye Diop, LCPC."
lang: en
---

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Premarital · couples

# The conversations worth having before, not _after._

Premarital counseling for couples across Maryland, by secure video. Sessions of 75 minutes, in English or French.

Book an appointment: https://cghealththerapy.com/contact

Most couples arriving for premarital work are not in difficulty. They are in agreement, and want to find out where that agreement is real and where it has simply never been tested.

The subjects that cause the most trouble later are rarely secret. They are usually just assumed, by both people, in slightly different versions.

## What gets covered

Money, and what each of you learned about it before meeting. Children, or not, and on what timescale. Careers and whose moves take precedence. Extended family, obligation, and where the boundary sits.

Also faith and practice, how conflict was handled in each of your childhood homes, and what each of you privately expects marriage to change.

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## How it works

The structure draws on the Gottman method (https://cghealththerapy.com/gottman-method), which is built on several decades of research into what actually predicts how partnerships fare over time, and which is unusually concrete about conflict and repair (https://cghealththerapy.com/communication-problems-in-relationships).

You will be given real subjects to work through together between sessions, and the sessions are used for the parts that turn out to be harder than expected.

A few markers before you get in touch.

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## For couples across two cultures or two languages

Where partners come from different countries, faiths or first languages, the assumptions being compared are further apart, and the areas of unexamined agreement are usually larger.

Sessions can run in English, in French, or across both, which matters when one partner would otherwise be negotiating their own marriage at a disadvantage.

## The practical frame

Couples sessions (https://cghealththerapy.com/couples-therapy) are 75 minutes at $280, by secure video, with both partners physically in Maryland at the time. Canceling inside 24 hours is billed at $130.

Inquiries are answered within 24 to 48 hours. This is counseling, not a religious or legal marriage preparation requirement.

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Is this a fit?

## Is this the right fit?

A few markers before you get in touch.

You'll likely get the most from this work if you are:

- Engaged and committing couples across Maryland
- Cross-cultural and bilingual couples
- Couples blending existing families

The work asks for:

- Both partners attending
- Willingness to raise the subjects you have been avoiding
- Work between sessions

Related pages

## Keep reading

- ### Couples therapy
  Read more
  https://cghealththerapy.com/couples-therapy
- ### Gottman method
  Read more
  https://cghealththerapy.com/gottman-method
- ### Communication problems in relationships
  Read more
  https://cghealththerapy.com/communication-problems-in-relationships

Ready when you are

## Become the _author_ of your own life.

Telehealth psychotherapy across Maryland, in English or French. Individual and couples appointments; request one and a confirmation comes back within 24 to 48 hours.

Book an appointment: https://cghealththerapy.com/contact
See how I work: https://cghealththerapy.com/how-i-work

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