This training is facilitated by LaTrease Nwosu International Relationship Consultant and Resident in Counseling and Anastacia Sams LMFT-S, LPC, co-founders of A Soulful Love.

Like many clinicians, we were trained to work with couples in distress but we were not specifically trained to understand or guide couples in the premarital stage as a distinct phase of development. Early in our clinical work, we began noticing a recurring theme: couples entering therapy years into marriage were often struggling with issues rooted in conversations that were never explored before they said “I do.”

As we continued working with engaged and early-married couples, it became clear that premarital work required more than good clinical instincts—it required intentional structure, education, and a developmental lens that most training programs did not provide. We sought out additional learning, integrated research, and refined our approach through years of practice, eventually recognizing a larger gap affecting not just couples, but therapists as well. A Soulful Love was created from that realization: a desire to equip couples with the preparation they deserve and to support couples therapists with the clarity, frameworks, and confidence needed to guide premarital work effectively. Our focus on premarital education is rooted in the belief that prevention is powerful—and that therapists deserve better preparation to do this work well.