Through its Center for Couples, the National Institute of Relationship Enhancement (NIRE) offers a wide variety of services for couples desiring to enrich their relationships. Whether your goal is to learn how to cooperatively resolve issues in order to restore intimacy and relationship satisfaction, or simply to make a good relationship even better, NIRE has a variety of services to assist you.

The Couples' Relationship Enhancement^® Weekend is an effective psychoeducational program for couples which teaches practical attitudes, skills, and strategies for improving communication, cooperatively resolving relationship issues, and proactively working to bring about increased intimacy and relationship satisfaction. This two-day program consists of lectures, demonstrations of relationship skills by program leaders, and the opportunity for participants to practice skills privately with supervision. Although taught in a group format, there is no requirement for couples to share any information with other couples, and all skill practice is conducted in private.

NIRE also offers marriage enrichment counseling for couples desiring to work individually with a counselor to learn practical attitudes, skills, and strategies for improving communication, cooperatively resolving relationship issues and working to build intimacy and relationship satisfaction. The content of the marriage enrichment counseling is generally similar to that of the Couples' Relationship Enhancement^® Weekend, but with the advantage that sessions can be individually planned to meet the specific needs of a couple and that the couple has the benefit of the constant and exclusive attention of a counselor.

NIRE has developed Phone Coach, a homestudy program for couples who are unable to participate in the Couples' Relationship Enhancement^® Weekend or marriage enrichment counseling. Please call NIRE for information about this program.

For more information about marriage enrichment counseling services or psychoeducational programs offered by NIRE please call us at (301) 986-1479.