Marriage counselling for couples who are still deciding.

Who comes for this

Most couples arrive late. They have tried talking, tried church, tried a break, tried pretending. By the time they book, one partner is usually further out of the door than the other, and both are exhausted.

That is a normal starting point, not a disqualifying one. Christie has spent fifteen years working with couples at exactly that stage, and wrote A Leap Over Divorce out of it.

• Communication that has collapsed into either silence or the same repeating fight
• Trust after infidelity, financial betrayal, or a long-kept secret
• In-law and extended family pressure that neither of you is defending against
• Sexual disconnection, or intimacy that stopped without either of you naming it
• Parenting conflict that has become a proxy for a different argument
• One of you deciding whether to stay, and needing help thinking rather than reacting

What happens in the room

The first session is eighty minutes with both of you present. Christie will not spend it taking sides or letting one of you present the case. She works out what the actual pattern is, which is almost never the thing you came in arguing about.

You leave with a shared description of the problem — often the first thing you have agreed on in months — and something specific to do before the next session.

A marriage rarely fails because of one betrayal. It fails because of the hundred small unrepaired moments around it.

If your spouse will not come

Come alone. A marriage changes when one person changes how they show up in it, and a great deal of useful work is possible with one partner in the room. If your spouse later decides to join, that is welcome. It is not a condition.

Faith in the room

Christie is both a psychologist and a minister and does not separate the two. For many couples in Port Harcourt that is exactly why they come — they want someone who understands the covenant and the clinical picture. If you would rather she left faith out of it entirely, say so when you book. She will.

How long this takes

Most couples do between six and twelve sessions. Couples in acute crisis often start with the intensive — three sessions across two weeks, concentrated work, a written agreement, and a review at week six. That format exists because when a marriage is at the edge, spreading the work across three months is usually too slow.

Fees

Marriage session · ₦65,000 · $130

Eighty minutes, both partners, in person in Port Harcourt or online. The three-session intensive is ₦165,000 or $330, which saves ₦30,000 against booking separately.

Payment on booking. Reschedule free up to 24 hours before.

Fees

What this costs.

Couples

Marriage session

80 minutes · both partners

Communication that has broken down, trust after betrayal, in-law pressure, or deciding whether to stay.

Nigeria₦65,000

International$130

When it is urgent

Marriage intensive

Three sessions across two weeks · saves ₦30,000

For couples at the edge. Concentrated work, a written agreement, and a review at week six.

Nigeria₦165,000

International$330

The first step takes four minutes.

Choose a time and answer four short questions, so Christie walks in already knowing why you came.

Book a session