Inclusive Premarital & Pre-Commitment Therapy
Start your relationship off with a good foundation
Josh Davis, Licensed Mental Health Counselor
In Fort Lauderdale And Virtual Throughout Florida, Vermont, And Delaware
Congratulations!! You're taking a big step in your relationship!
It’s exciting and scary all at the same time!
Maybe you've decided to move in together, or you've just gotten engaged.
You love each other, but you want to make sure this relationship lasts. You're fearful of ending up like other couples you know, or maybe even worse, like your parents.
You might handle money differently. You might be noticing that you have different values. There might be parts of the relationship you need to work through before you can fully commit.
You both want a relationship that is built to last!
Who is premarital, cohabitation, and pre-commitment therapy for?
This is for couples who are taking steps toward a committed relationship and want to make sure they're starting on a solid foundation. Maybe you've been together a while and are planning to move in together, planning to get engaged, or you're newlyweds wanting to build a long-lasting, healthy relationship, one that can withstand the ups and downs of life.
My approach: NARM and Gottman, together
I work from two frameworks that complement each other well.
The NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) looks at how your earliest relationships shaped the way you connect, protect yourself, and respond to closeness now. Most conflict that shows up early in a serious relationship isn't really about money or chores, it's old survival strategies showing up and interacting with each other in real time. NARM helps us slow that down and understand where those patterns came from, for each of you.
The Gottman Method gives us research-backed, practical tools for the day-to-day of a relationship — how to fight fair, how to build friendship and intimacy, how to repair after conflict, and how to build shared meaning as a couple. Where NARM helps explain why a pattern exists, Gottman gives us concrete skills to change it.
Together, these give you both insight into your patterns and real tools to use when it counts.