Over the past 15 years I have worked with over a hundred couples. Many of whom still keep in touch as they send pictures of new babies and Christmas cards. Here is what a few of them have said about their experience.
"We participated in pre-marriage counseling as soon as we knew our engagement was coming. For us counseling with Kerrin was a chance to have focused talks about things that mattered and would matter in 
our relationship. We were able to see strengths that our experiences brought into the picture, understand differences in our backgrounds, and see ways we can grow together. Additionally, Kerrin guided us towards conversations and 'assignments' between sessions that were very helpful. Two years later we are still have great conversations about the topics and discussions brought up in our pre-martial counseling. We are still using what we learned during that time to grow our marriage." M & B
"We are so glad we invested in premarital counseling. Kerrin helped us to learn how to communicate with each other, something we thought we were really good at and now we know we had a lot to learn. She helped us talk about things we would not have thought of without her help. We also learned important things about ourselves that has helped our marriage become strong. She helped us understand some important things about marriage that we are still using." J & T
"Pre-marriage counseling was the best. We laughed, we cried and we learned a ton. We continue to practice some of the things Kerrin taught us over three years ago, we both think our marriage is stronger because of our investment." A & A
"I didn't want to leave our last session, we had learned so much and grown as a couple. We weren't engaged when we came in but we are now married and are so glad that we spent five weeks working on us when we were just learning to communicate and to be a couple. When we left she said her door is always open to us if we ever need a relationship touch up and that gave us the confidence that we would have support if we ever needed it. So far we haven't and we really think it is because we learned so many ways to talk to each other during our premarital counseling." J & E
Kerrin Houser, LPC, LMHC
503-819-4859
kerrin@hopetree.net