Premarital Counseling & Therapy

Your marital relationship can become a tremendous source of love, affection, support and motivation. Research shows that people in long-term happy relationships are physically and emotionally healthier over the life span. How you start and cultivate your marriage can have a tremendous impact over the course of the relationship.

Are you currently engaged or contemplating marriage? Are you newly married and wanting to ensure that you continue the happy relationship? Or are you engaged or newly married and the "honeymoon phase” of your relationship is diminishing, or it has already ended?

Premarital counseling is a way that you and your partner can learn to enhance positive relationship skills to help each of you achieve satisfaction within your marriage over the long term. Research shows that there are consistent characteristics that increase dissatisfaction and risk for divorce over time, and likewise that there are key characteristics and dynamics that foster marital happiness.

Premarital counseling at Potomac Psychiatry will meet you and your partner where each of you are in the relationship, develop a customized time-sensitive plan that will help you and your partner know each other better; be able to identify and communicate your needs in the relationship, and be able to respond optimally to your partner’s needs; and help foster a marital friendship where your goals and dreams for life are shared. Your premarital counseling will be with Dr. Liz Davenport Pollock, a warm and accepting therapist and is built on solid research evidence.

The Premarital Counseling Program consists of one 90 minute assessment, six 90 minute sessions that are goal oriented to optimize your relationship, and 2 post-wedding booster sessions for tweaking the relationship post wedding. (Note: if you are newly married, this package will work for you, too. You can decide on your post-wedding boosters anytime you wish.)

Liz Davenport Pollock is a Marriage, Family, and Individual Therapist specializing in therapy with children, adolescents, families and couples. She provides individual, family, couples, and group therapy on issues surrounding emotion management, interpersonal relationships, communication, parenting skills, behavior problems, self-esteem, ADHD, and general family functioning.

Call us at 301.984.9791 to discuss your needs or to schedule an appointment.

Potomac Psychiatry is conveniently located in Rockville MD, near the intersection of Rockville Pike (MD 355) and Montrose Road. We are walking distance from the White Flint Metro Rail Station (Red Line). We serve the Suburban Maryland, Washington DC and Northern Virginia area.

Our offices are conveniently accessible from the following communities:

Maryland (MD):

Bethesda 20814 - Bethesda 20816 - Bethesda 20817 - Chevy Chase 20815 - Colesville 20904 - Cabin John 20815 - Glen Echo 20812 - Gaithersburg 20855 - Gaithersburg 20877- Gaithersburg 20878 - Gaithersburg 20879 - Garrett Park 20896 - Kensington 20895 - Montgomery Village 20886 - Olney 20830 - Olney 20832 - Potomac 20854 - Potomac 20859 - Rockville 20850 - Rockville 20852 - Rockville 20853 - Silver Spring 20903 - Silver Spring 20905 - Silver Spring 20906 - Silver Spring 20910 - Takoma Park 20912 - Wheaton 20902

Washington DC:

Crestwood 20011- North Capitol Hill 20002 - Cathedral Heights 20016 - American University Park 20016 - Columbia Heights 20010 - Mount Pleasant 20010 - Downtown 20036 - Dupont Circle 20009 - Logan Circle 20005- Adams Morgan 20009 - Chevy Chase 20015 - Georgetown 20007 - Cleveland Park 20008 - Foggy Bottom 20037 - Rock Creek Park - Woodley Park 20008 - Tenleytown 20016

Northern Virginia:
McLean 22101- McLean 22102 - McLean 22106 - Great Falls 22066 - Arlington 22201 - Arlington 22202 - Arlington 22203 - Arlington 22205 - Falls Church 22041 - Vienna 22181 - Alexandria 22314