Yes, and honestly, this is the best time to start. Most couples wait until the resentment has piled up for years before they get help. Coming in while you still genuinely love each other and just can't seem to stop having the same fight is exactly when this work is easiest and most effective. You don't have to be in crisis to deserve peace.

Most couples feel a real shift within the first session or two. Once you start to understand what your fights are actually about, the tension begins to ease almost immediately, often before you've changed a single thing about your budget or spending habits. The deeper work takes longer, but relief tends to come early.

That depends on how far you want to go. Our entry program, A Taste of Peace, is designed to bring you quick relief and stop the immediate fighting. The fuller programs, A Life of Peace and A Legacy of Peace, go deeper, giving you the tools, habits, and understanding that make the peace last for good. Wherever you start, the goal is real change, not a temporary patch, and you can always go further when you're ready.

A counselor, even a Christian counselor, may help you communicate but not sit down and work through your actual finances together. Talking about your conflict and building a real plan for your money are two different things, and most couples have only ever been offered the first. This work does both at once, which is usually the missing piece.

It's both, and that's the point. When money is hurting your marriage, you're really dealing with three things at once: your finances, your relationship, and your faith. Most helpers only handle one. I work at the place where all three meet, so you don't have to choose who to turn to.

Almost always, yes. The skills you build here: communicating without it turning into a fight, making decisions as a team, and genuinely understanding where the other is coming from, are the same skills the rest of your marriage runs on. Couples regularly find they're navigating parenting, in-laws, career changes, and physical intimacy better too, because they're finally connected in a way they haven't been before. Money is just the catalyst for much broader improvements in your relationship.

This is one of the most common things I hear, and it's rarely the obstacle it seems. A lot of husbands are quietly just as tired of the fighting as you are; they just don't love the idea of "getting help." Part of my job is creating a space where he feels respected rather than cornered. In my experience, husbands who come in skeptical often end up the most engaged. And you don't have to be the one to win him over. Getting a reluctant husband comfortable is part of what I do, and it often lands better coming from another man. Reach out, and we'll figure out together how to bring him in at a pace that works for both of you.

The work is designed for both of you, since you're building something together. That said, I understand that life happens, so there's room for flexibility along the way. The goal is for both of you to be part of it, not to enforce perfect attendance.

No. I'm not there to referee or to decide who's right. I'm on the side of God and your marriage. My job is to help both of you feel heard and understood, and to help you stop seeing each other as the problem so you can face the real issues as a team.

My approach is rooted in my Christian faith and in my belief that God designed marriage to flourish. That said, the practical tools work for anyone regardless of your faith background. If you want faith to be explicit in our coaching, it can be. In practice, that can mean praying together, grounding decisions in Scripture, or simply approaching your marriage as something sacred, depending on what fits you. If you'd rather faith be left out of our coaching, that's okay, too. Every marriage is worth saving regardless of your religious beliefs.

Coaching is offered through three programs designed around where you are and how far you want to go. Rather than list numbers without context, I've laid it all out, what each includes and what it costs, on the marriage coaching page.

Most clients choose to meet virtually, but if you prefer, I'm happy to meet in-person for those of you local to the region generally south of Nashville, Tennessee (the area generally encompassing Brentwood, Franklin, Nolensville, Smyrna, and Murfreesboro).

If you need to cancel or reschedule a session, please provide at least 24 hours' notice. Cancellations with less than 24 hours' notice, or no-shows, may result in the forfeiture of that session without refund.