Marriage Counseling Program

Restoring Covenant
Through Relational Integrity

This $399 marriage counseling introductory course is available now. Course 9, Emotional Intimacy and Relational Maintenance, is also available as a standalone marriage course.

$399
Introductory Course
Course 9
Available Now
$12.99
Workbook
Stripe one-time payment — $399 PayPal payment plan — $100 down + 2 x $149.50 View Course 9 Join the marriage series waitlist
Also available: Premarital Counseling: Building Covenant Through Relational Integrity — the $299 introductory course for engaged couples. Learn more →  ·  Are you a therapist? See our clinical referral guide →

Why This Program Works

Learning-First. Faith-Integrated.
Built for Better Conversations.

This introductory course gives couples a structured learning foundation before, during, or after counseling support. The goal is shared language, clearer reflection, and more productive conversations grounded in relationship education and faith-informed application.

After The Marriage License

The license begins the marriage. It does not finish the learning.

Couples often prepare carefully for milestones that carry responsibility. Marriage deserves that same seriousness after the wedding day, because real life brings pressure, family patterns, conflict, repair, intimacy, and shared decisions into the room.

  • Use structured lessons to turn difficult topics into guided conversations instead of repeated arguments.
  • Build shared language for emotional safety, covenant responsibility, forgiveness, trust protection, and repair.
  • Strengthen counseling, pastoral care, or mentoring by giving both partners the same framework to work from.
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Structured Learning, Not Argument

These courses are built to teach — not to mediate. Couples come away with shared language and frameworks they can bring into any counseling session or difficult conversation.

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A Complement to Support

Already working with a counselor, pastor, or mentor? This series gives both partners shared vocabulary and structured exercises that can support those conversations.

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Structured Depth at Accessible Cost

Each course offers focused teaching, reflection, and practice prompts. Both partners receive access through a single enrollment.

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The goal of this series is not to replace counseling, pastoral care, legal guidance, or crisis support. It is to equip couples with vocabulary, reflection prompts, and a structured framework for having a different kind of conversation.

— Dr. Donetta Quinones, PhD, LPC, LMHC  ·  Founder, GraceRoot Institute

Marriage Counseling Course Series

For Couples Who Want to Go Deeper

Marriage is not finished at the altar. The couples who thrive are the ones who keep doing the work — not just when there's a crisis, but as a committed practice of relational growth. This introductory course is built for that work.

Developed by Dr. Donetta Quinones, the $399 introductory course provides the foundation for the framework. Course 9, Emotional Intimacy and Relational Maintenance, is available now for couples who want deeper support for friendship, emotional responsiveness, rituals of connection, and long-term relational care.

The introductory course and Course 9 are available now. The remaining Restoring Covenant Through Relational Integrity courses are listed as Coming Soon while the deeper course structure and access language are finalized.

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Trauma-Informed

Every course is grounded in trauma science and attachment theory — built for couples whose histories show up in their relationships.

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Biblically Integrated

Scriptural reflection woven through relationship education as a theological foundation for covenant marriage.

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For Married Couples

Designed specifically for couples who are already married — at any stage, in any season, from the early years to decades in.

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Completion Documentation

Each course provides a certificate of completion and documented learning record. Clinicians should verify any licensing-board credit requirements directly with their board.

Marriage Course Series

Marriage Course Series

The introductory course and Course 9, Emotional Intimacy and Relational Maintenance, are available now. Additional Restoring Covenant Through Relational Integrity courses are being finalized.

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Additional courses in the marriage series are in development. Add your email and we'll notify you the moment each course opens — plus early-access pricing for waitlist members.

Foundation Section — Courses 1–4
01
Available Now

Foundation

Attachment, Trauma Foundations, and Emotional Safety

How attachment patterns and unresolved trauma show up inside marriage — and how couples build emotional safety together through nervous system awareness and practical relationship skills.

6 Modules Trauma-Informed
$199 or payment plan
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02
Available Now

Foundation

Communication, Conflict, and Emotional Regulation

The communication and conflict skills that determine whether a marriage grows stronger through hard seasons — and the emotional regulation practices that make them possible.

6 Modules Trauma-Informed
$199 or payment plan
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03
Available Now

Foundation

Boundaries, Autonomy, and Relational Clarity

How to establish healthy boundaries in marriage without losing intimacy — building a relational framework where both partners retain autonomy and mutual clarity defines the covenant.

6 Modules Trauma-Informed
$199 or payment plan
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04
Available Now

Foundation

Repair, Forgiveness, and Trust Restoration

How to repair what breaks in marriage — trust, emotional safety, and connection — through a structured repair process and a biblical theology of forgiveness and covenant faithfulness.

6 Modules Trauma-Informed
$199 or payment plan
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Core Section — Courses 5–8
05
Available Now

Core

Emotional Intimacy, Friendship, and Relational Maintenance

How to build and sustain the emotional intimacy and friendship that make a marriage the safest relationship either partner has — and the ongoing practices that keep it growing.

6 Modules Documented Hours
$199 or payment plan
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06
Available Now

Core

Family Systems, Roles, and Generational Healing

How your family of origin shaped your relational blueprint — and how to identify, understand, and interrupt generational patterns so they do not quietly define your marriage.

6 Modules Documented Hours
$199 or payment plan
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07
Available Now

Core

The Covenant Partnership: Roles, Finances, Purpose & Vision

The practical architecture of married life — roles, shared responsibility, financial stewardship, and a unified vision — built on a covenant-partnership model that makes daily sacrifice meaningful and sustainable.

6 Modules Documented Hours
$199 or payment plan
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08
Available Now

Core

Long-Term Relational Resilience and Covenant Renewal

The practices, commitments, and covenant theology that sustain a marriage through decades — and what it looks like to intentionally renew your covenant and build for the long term.

6 Modules Documented Hours
$199 or payment plan
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Advanced Section — Courses 9–11
09
Available Now

Advanced

Advanced Emotional Intimacy & Relational Maintenance

A graduate-level course on sustaining secure attachment, deep friendship, and lifelong emotional connection — through bids for connection, love maps, rituals of connection, and stress-aware maintenance, grounded in evidence-based practice and biblical covenant.

6 Modules 36 Lessons
$199 standalone course
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10
Available Now

Advanced

Trauma, Nervous System Regulation, and Marriage

A practical course on fight, flight, freeze, fawn responses, emotional flooding, co-regulation, trauma reenactment, and resilience-building as a couple.

6 Lessons Documented Hours
$199 or payment plan
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Available Now

Advanced

Betrayal Prevention, Accountability, and Trust Protection

How couples discuss trust erosion, emotional affairs, digital integrity, transparency systems, credibility, and covenant loyalty before hidden patterns become defining.

6 Lessons Documented Hours
$199 or payment plan
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Companion Workbook

Protected Digital Workbook

GraceRoot Marriage Counseling Workbook

136 pages · companion resource for the marriage counseling course pathway · standalone purchase available

$12.99
Buy Workbook — $12.99
For Professionals

Professional Facilitator Training

Guiding couples through GraceRoot marriage education?

Training for clinicians, relationship coaches, pastors, ministry staff, and certified helping professionals using GraceRoot marriage education with appropriate scope, referral readiness, and trauma-informed pacing.

$199
Manual and tools available separately for $12.99 each
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Marriage Course Availability

Additional Marriage Courses Coming Soon

In-Depth Marriage Series
Restoring Covenant Through Relational Integrity

The $399 marriage counseling introductory course is available now, and Course 9, Emotional Intimacy and Relational Maintenance, is available as a standalone course. Additional Restoring Covenant Through Relational Integrity courses are Coming Soon.

$399
Introductory Course
Course 9
Available Now
$12.99
Workbook
Coming Soon
The $399 introductory course remains available separately while the in-depth series is finalized.
Introductory course leads into the bundled series
Additional Restoring Covenant Through Relational Integrity courses are Coming Soon
Workbook remains available as a standalone resource
Completion documentation will match the final enrollment product

A la carte option

$399 intro available now

Choose the introductory marriage course now, or enroll in Course 9 as a standalone course for deeper work on emotional intimacy and relational maintenance.

Stripe one-time payment — $399 PayPal payment plan — $100 down + 2 x $149.50 View Course 9

Subscription option

$149 / month for 12 months

Monthly access to the GraceRoot marriage course pathway as additional courses are released. One missed payment locks marriage course access until the account is current.

Start subscription — $149/month Join the marriage series waitlist
Dr. Donetta Quinones

Series Creator & Instructor

Dr. Donetta Quinones LPC LMHC

Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) · Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) · Certified Human Behavior Consultant

Dr. Quinones is a licensed counselor and curriculum developer with a PhD in Psychology, dual licensure as an LPC and LMHC, and graduate training in forensic psychology. Her GraceRoot materials integrate relationship education, trauma-informed principles, and faith-informed reflection for structured learning and guided application.

PhD in Psychology · MA, Forensic Psychology PhD · LPC · LMHC Program Development Trauma-Informed Specialist 20+ Years Clinical Experience

For Clinicians & Ministry Leaders

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Ongoing Program Support

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Content You Can Trust

Credible, Christ-centered content grounded in structured relationship education — material your clients can review, discuss, and apply.