COUPLES ASSESSMENTS · IN PERSON IN ARLINGTON ·
TELEHEALTH ACROSS TEXAS & FLORIDA
Start with a map, not
a guess
Every couple has patterns — the question is whether you can see them. A research-based relationship assessment gives us an objective picture of your strengths and stress points before we spend a single session guessing, so the work starts where your relationship actually is.
WHY START WITH AN ASSESSMENT
Both voices, equally heard — before the first conversation
In session, whoever talks more tends to steer. An assessment doesn't work that way: each of you answers privately, in your own words, at your own pace — so the quiet partner's experience carries exactly as much weight as the talkative one's. The result is a structured picture of how you communicate, handle conflict, manage money, share intimacy, and hold expectations — drawn from instruments validated with thousands of couples. It focuses our sessions from day one: less time discovering the patterns, more time changing them.
THE TWO INSTRUMENTS
Two research-backed tools — equally effective, matched to your goals
Gottman Relationship Checkup
The clinical assessment developed by Drs. John and Julie Gottman — a comprehensive, confidential questionnaire each partner completes online. It maps your relationship across friendship, intimacy, conflict, trust, and shared meaning, and gives me a detailed clinical picture that shapes your treatment plan from session one.
Couples beginning therapy, working through a specific hurt or a recurring conflict — or established couples who want the deepest possible picture of their relationship before the work begins.
About 1.5–2 hours per partner, at your own pace · Included in your couples intake
Prepare/Enrich®
One of the most widely used couple assessments in the world, tailored to your relationship stage — engaged, dating seriously, or long married. It identifies strength and growth areas across communication, conflict, finances, family expectations, and more, and anchors every session of the Vows & Values™ premarital program. Established couples also use it as a structured relationship tune-up.
Engaged and seriously dating couples (it anchors Vows & Values™), newlyweds building habits early — and established couples who want a structured tune-up without a full clinical deep dive.
About 30–45 minutes per partner · Included in the Vows & Values™ package or your couples intake · Personalized couple report + workbook exercises
HOW IT WORKS
Four steps from booking to a clear picture
“Every solution starts with knowing what you're actually solving.”
Book first
Schedule your couples intake (or enroll in Vows & Values™). We’ll decide together which instrument fits your goals — you never have to choose alone.
Complete it privately
Each partner receives a secure link and answers separately, confidentially, on your own schedule. No comparing notes; honest answers are the whole point.
I review and score
Your responses come to me — not to each other — and I study the full picture before we meet.
We map the work together
In your feedback session, we walk through your results: what’s strong, what’s strained, and exactly where our work will focus.
Questions couples ask
GOOD TO KNOW
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Separately, always — and confidentially. Each partner gets their own secure link and answers alone. The honesty that privacy makes possible is exactly what makes the results useful.
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I do — your partner doesn't. Individual responses come to me as your counselor and are never handed over to your partner. What we discuss together in the feedback session is the couple picture your answers create: your shared strengths, growth areas, and patterns.
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You don't have to decide alone — matching you is my job. As a rule of thumb: the Gottman framework is the deeper clinical tool for couples entering therapy due to needed repair or wanting a thorough checkup; Prepare/Enrich is the instrument behind Vows & Values™ and shines for engaged, seriously dating, and newlywed couples getting to know one another. It can also be used as a lighter tune-up for established couples.
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Each assessment runs about $35-45 per couple. In most cases I roll that cost into your initial session rate so the whole thing is seamless — one payment, no separate logins to manage. Occasionally it makes more sense for a couple to purchase directly from the assessment platform, and I'll tell you when that's the case.
Either way, access has to be granted by a trained or certified professional. I'll make sure you get into whichever platform fits your goals as a couple.
Find your starting point.
Then build from there.
Start with a couples intake — or begin your marriage on purpose with Vows & Values™.