Couples Mentorship
God wants to walk with you through the crisis and into freedom
Is your marriage in crisis? Are you facing betrayal, addiction, separation, or a wound that feels too big to face alone? We walk with couples through the real, hard struggles as fellow travelers who’ve been where you are. Through connection, prayer, and intentional planning, we help you take the first steps back toward a total, fruitful, faithful, and free marriage.
Engaged couples preparing for marriage, working through barriers, or seeking extra support — there’s a place for you here too.
Does it feel like all hope is lost?
Meet Your Mentor Couple
Melissa & Anthony
Couples mentors
Melissa and Anthony offer their love for the transformative power of Christ by walking alongside couples in their real, lived struggles — whether facing betrayal, working through addiction, navigating recovery, wrestling with identity, or simply longing for a deeper connection — there’s a place for you here. Bringing over a decade of real-life experience rebuilding their own marriage, they are willing to step into any struggle a couple is facing, walking with you through the layers of burdens and barriers toward a new path through Christ and a total, fruitful, faithful, & free marriage.
Melissa & Anthony bring a deep, personal understanding to every session — drawing on relationship-assessment training alongside prayer and presence to offer practical tools that help each couple move from surviving to truly living out their marriage.
Areas of Focus/Specializations
- Emotional intimacy
- Shared spiritual/prayer life
- Sexual betrayal & healing
- Addiction recovery (pornography, stimulants, sexual addictions)
- Identity & same-sex attraction
- Healing of past wounds
- Marriage separation navigation
- Communication skills
- Conflict resolution
- Family life/NFP
- Theology of the Body
Qualifications
- Anthony is a graduate from the Encounter School of Ministry
- Melissa is a student at the Theology of the Body Institute enrolled in the certification program
- Certified Prepare & Enrich Facilitators
- They both offer ongoing prayer ministry, mentorship, and together have founded The Abundant Catholic
- Additional experiences:
- Years of marriage & individual therapy
- Intensive trauma recovery
- Prepare & Enrich couples program
- Retrouvaille Marriage Retreat participants
- Healing the Whole Person Retreat participants (JPII Healing Center)
- Addiction recovery (sexual / stimulants)
- Encounter Ministries retreats/intensives
- SOLT Lay members (summer intensive)
- Theology of the Body Institute TOB1 class (in-person)
- Natural Family Planning (NFP) class / 10+ years experience
- Short-term marriage separation experience (nesting)