hope, help & healing for your marriage
About Tim + Shanna
We have been married for 27 years. We have 2 wonderful adult kids. We met in college and graduated from Freed-Hardeman University.
Tim has a degree in Social Work and Ministry and Shanna's degree is in Elementary Education. We are both Thriving Relationships Coaches and Certified Master Life Coaches.
We are certified to administer the Gottman Relationship Check-Up and the SYMBIS Assessment.
We served in full-time ministry for over 20 years and have had many varied and challenging life experiences. We are champions for marriage and would be honored to encourage and equip you with the practical tools you need for a successful marriage.
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T + S
About The Assessment
The Gottman Relationship Check-Up is the gold-standard of marriage assessments! Gottman is an online assessment that automatically scores a couple’s strengths and challenges. It consists of questions about friendship, intimacy, how well you know your partner, how you manage emotions and conflict, how you share your values and goals, and what gives meaning to your lives. There are also additional questions about parenting, housework, finances, trust, and individual areas of concern. The questionnaire is confidential [Tim + Shanna will be the only ones who see your responses].
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SYMBIS [Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts] is an online assessment given to engaged or newly married couples (or even couples who have been married for a while!) SYMBIS has many questions about personality, upbringing, attitudes towards money, sex and more. It then creates a print out with the results. We receive the results and set up sessions to go over any strengths, weaknesses and any caution flags that are identified. Together we talk about areas of individual growth for each person and also discuss issues within the confines of the relationship. The questionnaire is confidential [Tim + Shanna will be the only ones who see your responses].
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How it works:
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1. Accept your invitation. We will send each of you a separate email inviting you to take your assessment.
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2. Create a private profile. Once you have accepted the email invitation, you and your partner will each create individual, separate profiles.
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3. Complete the questionnaire. You and your partner will each complete your own questionnaire separately at your convenience. Stop and start at anytime. Neither partner will be able to access the other’s information at any point in the process. In order to preserve the integrity and accuracy of the tool, you are encouraged not to share your responses with each other or log in to your partner’s account. The actual time it takes to complete each assessment varies: Gottman takes about an hour and SYMBIS takes around 30 minutes.
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4. Get your results. When you have both completed your individual questionnaires, we will be notified and will be able to securely review the analysis of your relationship. In our following sessions, we will discuss the results with you and suggest an action plan for improving and strengthening your relationship.
