SYMBIS Premarital & Newlywed Counseling
Start your marriage with a road map
A personalized, assessment-based road map for engaged and newly married couples, walked through with Anthony and Kirstie — two people in a real marriage.
What SYMBIS Is
Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts
SYMBIS stands for Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts, the assessment created by Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott. It's one of the most widely used premarital tools in the world, and for good reason: it turns your relationship into a personalized, easy-to-read picture of who you are, together.
You each take the assessment online. Your answers become a single report, tailored to the two of you — your strengths, your differences, and the conversations most worth having before they turn into friction.
Then you sit down with Anthony, a SYMBIS Certified Facilitator, and Kirstie, who joins every premarital session. You'll walk through it all with honest guidance from both sides of a real marriage.
What Your Report Reveals
A clear picture of the two of you
SYMBIS gives you real insight into the things that make or break a marriage — the stuff most couples don't talk about until they're already in it.
Your personalities
See how each of you is wired, and how your differences can become your greatest strength instead of your biggest friction point.
How you communicate
Understand the way you each speak and listen, so you can actually be heard the way you mean to be.
How you handle conflict
Name your patterns for disagreement before they harden into habits, and learn how to fight fair.
Your money mindsets
Surface how you each think about spending, saving, and giving — before it quietly becomes a source of stress.
Expectations you didn't know you had
Bring the quiet assumptions about married life into the open, where the two of you can actually talk them through.
A shared vision
Get clear, together, on the marriage and the life you actually want to build.
Your report also explores your love styles, your spiritual life together, and the roles and rhythms of your future home.
What Your Report Looks Like
A personalized report, built just for you
Clear, visual, and easy to read together — a keepsake you'll come back to long after the wedding.
Real pages from a SYMBIS sample report. Your own report is built from your answers.
Get a full sample report
See every page for yourself. Enter your name and email and the complete SYMBIS sample report is yours to download.
How It Works
Simple to start, easy to follow
01
Take the assessment
You each complete the online SYMBIS assessment on your own — about thirty minutes, wherever you're comfortable.
02
We build your report
Your answers generate one personalized report, written for the two of you as a couple — not a generic quiz result.
03
Walk through it together
Sit down with Anthony and Kirstie to unpack your results, ask questions, and talk through what they mean for you.
04
Leave with a plan
You'll finish with practical next steps and a clearer, more confident picture of the marriage you're building.
Who It's For
Wherever you are on the way to “I do”
SYMBIS is built for couples getting ready for marriage — but its honest, hopeful insight serves couples at more than one stage.
Engaged couples preparing for the wedding and the marriage after it
Seriously dating couples discerning whether to take the next step
Newly married couples in their first year or two
Married couples wanting a fresh, honest check-in
“The best time to invest in your marriage is before it starts — and it's never too late to start investing.”
Kirstie joins Anthony for every premarital session, so you hear from both sides of a real marriage — not just a counselor across a desk.
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