Prepare/Enrich is a versatile and customizable online couple’s relationship assessment tailored to the unique stages and needs of each couple, and to the larger cultural context around them. Prepare/Enrich counseling includes personalized feedback to help couples improve their communication, resolve conflicts, and strengthen their bond. This flexible feedback process is highly relevant for newer, engaged, or recently married couples looking to build a strong foundation. The Prepare/Enrich assessment has been proven to decrease the risk of divorce by 30%. (Stanley, Amato, Johnson & Markman, 2006) Over 4 million couples have taken the Prepare/Enrich assessment. Prepare/Enrich and components of the assessment have been mentioned in over 1,200 peer reviewed journal articles, making it one of the most researched assessment tools.
Benefits of Prepare/Enrich Assessment
- Tailored to your unique relationship
- Credible and well-founded
- Highlights your strengths as a couple and pinpoints areas to work on
- Assesses whether you’re on the same page on specific topics
- Explores how your upbringing shows up in your relationship
- Examines how prepared you are to bounce back from life’s challenges
- Reveals how your personalities contribute to the dynamics of your relationship
- Pinpoints top stressors for each partner
- Identifies how connected you feel to each other
- Develop a deeper understanding of each other
Goals of Prepare/Enrich Feedback
The feedback process accompanying the Prepare/Enrich assessment is intended to accomplish several goals for couples:
1. Explore their Relationship Strength and Growth Areas. The Sharing Strength and Growth Areas exercise helps couples reflect on, and share with their partner, areas they believe to be strengths and areas they believe to be growth areas.
2. Learn and practice communication skills. The specific skills emphasized in the communication exercises are assertiveness and active listening.
3. Resolve conflicts. Couples learn conflict resolution skills by practicing a Ten-Step Model.
4. Discuss their relationship and families-of-origin as assessed by the Couple and Family Map. Couples are introduced to the concepts of closeness and flexibility contained in the Couple and Family Map and can explore impact on their relationship.
5. Better understand their personality similarities and differences. The feedback process is intended to help couples understand and accept one another’s personality style, maximizing their ability to work together as a team.
6. Identify and cope with major stressors in their lives. Couples identify stress and strategize ways and prioritize, manage, and apply resources to cope.
7. Develop a financial budget and set financial goals. Most couples agree that a budget would be useful, but few take the time to establish a workable budget that will help them reach their short and long term financial goals.
8. Develop and share personal, couple and family goals. Goal-setting facilitates closeness as couples’ progress together toward shared goals.
Prepare/Enrich Counseling with Elaine Korngold
Elaine Korngold, LPC, is a Certified Prepare/Enrich Facilitator able to guide you through the process of reviewing and making sense of your results, and engaging in skill-building activities and exercises to fine-tune your relationship. A typical Prepare/Enrich engagement for a newer, engaged, or recently married couple takes eight 50-minute online sessions. You will be set up with access to Prepare/Enrich as part of your intake process. We will begin reviewing your results and practicing appropriate exercises in our first session. Contact Elaine Korngold to begin strengthening your relationship.