RW Couples
Premarital | Couples & Marriage | Discernment | Mediation & Post-Divorce Care
Support for Your Relationship Starts Here
If you would like to schedule a session with one of our couple's counselors, please contact our office at 513-759-9744. The intake process will help assess which counselor is best suited for your relationship needs.
Premarital Counseling
Premarital Counseling is a proactive, relationship-building service designed for couples preparing to marry. This work helps partners enter marriage with intention, tools, and confidence for a strong, healthy partnership. Rivertown Wellness has trained specialists on staff who utilize Gottman, Prepare/Enrich and SYMBIS programs which use evidence-based relationship interventions and skill-building exercises tailored specifically for you and your partner.
Through guided conversations and structured sessions, couples explore key topics that matter long-term such as communication styles, conflict resolution, expectations about family and roles, financial goals, spiritual beliefs, and intimacy.
By enhancing understanding and skills before marriage, premarital counseling supports deeper connection, shared goals, and a foundation of mutual respect.
Couples & Marriage Counseling
Couples/Marriage Counseling supports partners who want to strengthen, repair, or deepen their relationship. This service helps couples identify and work through recurring patterns, unresolved conflicts, communication challenges, or changes in connection and intimacy.
At Rivertown Wellness, all of our couples clinicians are trained in evidence-based care such as Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and/or Gottman Method Marriage Counseling. Together with a trained counselor, couples learn practical skills such as active listening, emotional regulation, and problem-solving. Couples address underlying issues that interfere with trust and closeness.
Whether the focus is healing from past hurts, rebuilding connection, or navigating life transitions together, this service is designed to create healthier, more resilient partnerships.
Discernment Counseling
If you or your spouse are considering divorce but are not completely sure that’s the best path, you are in a tough spot. And Discernment Counseling is designed for you. It’s a chance to slowdown, take a breath, and look at your options for your marriage.
Discernment Counseling is a new way of helping couples where one person is “leaning out” of the relationship (not sure that regular marriage counseling would help) and the other is "leaning in” (interested in rebuilding the marriage).
The counselor will help you decide whether to try to restore your marriage to health, move toward divorce, or take a time out and decide later.
What is discernment counseling?
The goal is for you to gain clarity and confidence about a direction, based on a deeper understanding of your relationship and its possibilities for the future.
You will come in as a couple but the most important work occurs in the one-to-one conversations with the counselor. Why? Because you are starting out in different places.
The counselor respects your reasons for divorce while trying to open up the possibility of restoring the marriage to health.
The counselor emphasizes the importance of each of you seeing your own contributions to the problems and the possible solutions. This will be useful in future relationships even if this one ends.
Number of Sessions: A maximum of five counseling sessions. The first session is usually two hours and the subsequent are 1.5 or 2 hours.
What is the Goal?
Discernment Counseling is not suited for these situations:
When one spouse has already made a final decision to divorce
When one spouse is coercing the other to participate
When there is danger of domestic violence
Mediation &
Post-Divorce Care
Mediation & Post-Divorce Care provides practical and emotional support for couples transitioning through separation or divorce. Mediation is a cooperative process where trained professionals help partners communicate safely, work through logistics, and reach agreements on key areas (such as parenting plans, finances, and communication structures) without adversarial litigation. As part of post-divorce care, services also focus on healing, co-parenting collaboration, and adapting to life changes with dignity and respect.
The goal is to create solutions that minimize conflict, preserve goodwill where possible, and support healthy relationships with children, family, and self as life moves forward.