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Couples Coaching & Mentorship

God wants to take you beyond barriers and into freedom

Looking for a supportive space to share in your marriage struggles? Do you crave more emotional stability, spiritual connection, or intimacy in the marital union? We walk with couples through the various struggles and barriers as we facilitate healing through connection, prayer, and intentional planning.

Engaged couples who are seeking accompaniment/enrichment or help in overcoming barriers are welcome!

Does it feel like all hope is lost?

  • relationship strain
  • frequent fighting
  • inability to connect
  • communication barriers
  • addictions
  • recurrent sexual sin
  • disordered behaviors
  • lack of emotional intimacy
  • lack of spiritual connection
  • longing for more unity
  • separated or considering divorce

Meet our Mentors

Melissa & Anthony

Couples mentors

Melissa and Anthony offer their love for the transformative power of Christ by walking alongside couples in their real-life struggles for unity. Bringing experience from their own individual and marital healing journeys, they are willing to step into any struggle a couple is facing. Not only do they bring nearly a decade of real-life experience of building a family foundation and re-building a marriage, they also share in the living nourishing hope of God. Through connection, prayer, and planning- they help couples peel back the layers of burdens and barriers seeking a new path through Christ towards living out a total, fruitful, faithful, & free marriage.

Melissa & Anthony are certified Couples Facilitators through Prepare & Enrich offering each couple a unique lense into their personal communication skills & traits, along with shared strengths & growth areas. They offer practical tools for implementation to ensure couples take the transformative relationship insights to heart!

Areas of Focus/Specializations
  • Emotional intimacy
  • Shared spiritual/prayer life
  • Sexual betrayal & healing
  • Addiction recovery (pornography, stimulants, sexual addictions)
  • 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 theTheology 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)
Rate

Couples Mentorship $150/session

Juanita

Certified couples Coach

Juanita is a certified Thriving Relationship Coach through The Center for Thriving Relationships. Learning how to build and grow relationships is her passion. Her own marriage story includes personal experience of betrayal trauma from living with a spouse in addiction. She understands the suffering this causes, as well as the complexities and challenges of recovery, the space needed to grieve, and more critically- the consistency and effort needed to rebuild, reconcile, and restore.

Juanita specializes in helping couples through addiction recovery as she aids in healing the disconnect and brokenness helping couples create a thriving relationship. She also works with couples who do not have a history of addiction, but seek to grow in their relationship, work through past hurts, and desire a stronger bond and deeper intimacy.

Juanita also works one-on-one with individuals who are married, but whose spouse does not desire to engage in coaching.

Areas of Focus/Specializations
  • Couples Coaching
  • Individual Coaching
  • Betrayal Trauma
  • Spousal Addictions
  • Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
  • Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
Qualifications
  • Level 1 Couples Centered Recovery training – International Association for Couples Centered Recovery (IACCR )
  • CHRIST Program – Program participant, trained facilitator
  • Hope’s Garden – Mighty Networks space moderator, peer support group facilitator, relationship and life coach
  • Unbound, Basic and Advanced Ministry Training in prayer and deliverance
  • “Couples and Addiction Training” – The Gottman Institute
  • “Healing Toxic Injuries in Love Relationships: Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT)” with Dr. Sue Johnson 
  • “Emotional Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) for Healing Attachment Wounds” (Digital Seminar) by Dr. Leanne Campbell
  • “Addiction Treatment and Couples Therapy:  Using Emotionally Focused Therapy to Strengthen Sobriety” (Digital Seminar) by Dr. Michael Barnett, LPC, Certified EFT Trainer
  • Dynamic Neural Retraining System – Program participant
Rate

Couples Mentorship $125/session