Home For Couples

Help for every season of marriage

Engaged, newly married, doing well, or wondering how you got here — start with where you are. We have looked at everything on this page, and much of it meets right here in Collin and Grayson County.

Where are you right now?

Choose the one that sounds most like you.

Engaged or seriously datingGetting ready 3 places to start Married a few years or lessThe first years 3 places to start Doing well, and want moreGrowing closer 4 places to start Struggling, stuck or hurtingWhen it is hard 6 places to start

Hurting and need someone to talk to now?

Find a counselor
Warren and Sonya, who lead Enjoy Your Marriage

From our home ministry

Enjoy Your Marriage

Marriage Initiative North Texas is a community initiative of Enjoy Your Marriage, the ministry Warren and Sonya lead. Their conviction is ours: marriage is meant to be enjoyed, not endured.

Retreats & adventures

Time away, together.

Workshops & trainings

Skills you can use this week.

Counseling

Individual or couples, 60 or 90 minutes, online or in person.

Visit Enjoy Your Marriage Book a counseling session

Engaged or seriously dating

Getting ready

Do the work before the wedding, while it is easiest to do.

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Premarital classLocal

Merge

Engaged and seriously dating couples learn together — large-group teaching, a mentor couple at your table, and a little homework each week.

Watermark · Plano & DallasBrowse website →
Premarital assessment

SYMBIS

An online assessment plus a session with a trained facilitator, so you can see how each of you is wired and where to start talking.

With a facilitator · online or in personFind a facilitator →
Couples assessment

Prepare/Enrich

A well-researched assessment for engaged or married couples, with a facilitator who walks you through your results.

With a facilitator · online or in personFind a facilitator →

Married a few years or less

The first years

Build the foundation with other couples at the same stage.

Back to the seasons ↑
Newlywed small groupLocal

Foundation Groups

Four to six newly married couples and one mentor couple, meeting regularly for about fifteen months.

Watermark · Plano & DallasBrowse website →
Marriage discipleship

Grace Marriage

A monthly plan for couples — short teaching, a conversation, a next step — offered through participating churches.

Through your churchBrowse website →
Classes & coaching

Yes, Marriage Works

Relationship classes, coaching and events built for faith communities.

Classes · coaching · eventsBrowse website →

Doing well, and want more

Growing closer

Invest in a marriage that is working, so it keeps working.

Back to the seasons ↑
Retreats & workshopsLocal

Enjoy Your Marriage

Retreats, adventures and workshops from our home ministry, led by Warren and Sonya.

North TexasSee what is coming up →
Weekend retreat

Weekend to Remember

FamilyLife’s weekend away — part conference, part getaway — for any marriage, from flourishing to struggling.

Check for Dallas–Fort Worth datesFind a weekend →
Weekend retreat

WinShape Marriage

An all-inclusive weekend on Berry College’s mountain campus in Rome, Georgia — teaching, time together, every meal handled. Intensives for couples in crisis, too.

Rome, Georgia · Friday to SundayBrowse website →
Mentoring ministry

All In Marriage

A mentor-based ministry that trains couples to walk alongside other marriages, with groups, date nights and conferences.

Groups · date nights · eventsBrowse website →

Struggling, stuck or hurting

When it is hard

You are not the first, and you do not have to figure this out alone.

Back to the seasons ↑
Counseling

Talk to a counselor

Our vetted list of counselors, biblical counselors and coaches in Collin and Grayson County.

See the list →
Marriage recoveryLocal

re|engage

For marriages that need to be reignited or rebuilt: stories of grace, teaching, and small groups with mentor couples.

Preston Trail · Frisco, and Watermark · PlanoAll DFW classes →
Counseling approach

Restoration Therapy

Terry Hargrave’s model helps each of you see the pain cycle you keep falling into, and practice a peace cycle instead.

Directory of trained therapistsFind a therapist →
Marriage intensive

The Marriage Hub

Several concentrated days with a counselor, when weekly sessions are not enough. Coaching is available too.

Intensives in several citiesBrowse website →
Support group

Covenant Keepers

For a spouse carrying a marriage alone through a difficult season — people who listen, learn and pray with you.

In person and onlineBrowse website →
Addiction & recoveryLocal

Celebrate Recovery

A Christ-centered twelve-step program. Men and women meet in separate small groups.

[HOST CHURCH, CITY] · [DAY & TIME]Find a meeting →

The list

Counselors Serving Collin & Grayson Counties

Counselors and practices that churches here have worked with. Narrow the list by type, specialty or format, then contact them directly.

30 counselors

No one matches that search.

A listing is not an endorsement. We do not screen, license-check or supervise anyone on this page. Check credentials, ask about fees and insurance, and trust your judgment about fit. Adapted from the Preston Trail Community Church referral list [CONFIRM]. If you are in danger or in crisis right now, call 988.

On your own time

Read, listen, download

Good for a date night, a long drive, or the week before you meet with someone.

Books

A book that helped you? Suggest it →
Any season

The 5 Love Languages

Gary Chapman

Get the book →
Any season

Sacred Marriage

Gary Thomas

Get the book →
Growing closer

The Mindful Marriage

Ron & Nan Deal, Terry & Sharon Hargrave

Get the book →
Growing closer

How We Love

Milan & Kay Yerkovich

Get the book →
Growing closer

The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work

John Gottman & Nan Silver

Get the book →
Date nights

Eight Dates

John & Julie Gottman, Doug & Rachel Abrams

Get the book →
Getting ready · remarriage

Saving Your Second Marriage Before It Starts

Les & Leslie Parrott

Get the book →
When it is hard

Reconnected

Greg & Erin Smalley

Get the book →

Podcasts

Apps & websites

A listing here is not an endorsement of everything a ministry or author teaches. Ask questions, and talk with your pastor. Something out of date? Tell us.

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In danger or in crisis right now, call 988.