Welcome to The Marriage Academy.
Transform marital stress into marital success!
Here you will learn how to create greatness in your relationships by getting the formal relationship education, skills training and coaching you've never received but always wanted!
Hi, my name is Jonathan Sherman, LMFT, and I am a marriage and family therapist, relationship coach, educator and founder of The Marriage Academy (full bio and vita here).
Gain the formal training your marriage needs to succeed. At The Marriage Academy you and your spouse will benefit from gaining a formal, systematic training and education. Many complain that marriage doesn't come with instructions. Too many marriages fail needlessly.
Finally, there IS an instruction manual (and much more!) for marriages. Did you know that research shows that 66% of all divorces could have been prevented with just two things: Education and intervention. The Marriage Academy specializes in both education—teaching what you need to know to create a phenomenal marriage and intervention—helping you with the how to apply it in your specific marriage with each of your particular strengths and weaknesses, backgrounds, and personalities.
66% sounds good, and it is, but it gets better. Those results are just with the "education and intervention" that has typically been available to most couples: couples therapy. Additional research further shows that marriages can experience what has been called "marriage insurance" when they engage in specific, formalized multi-modal training that can raise the marital success rate to 98%! You'll learn those strategies as well as others that will help you not only divorce proof and affair proof your marriage but will help you create a truly in great marriage.
Love is NOT all you need. Marriage today will no longer support sloppy, unstructured approaches such as "if he loves me he'll just know..." "Love is all you need." Feelings only based love is a recipe for disaster. People lack models. In the face of such daunting statistics people understandably lack the hope and faith necessary to make a marriage work long-term.
The Marriage Academy's unique approach solves the typical hodge podge, hit and miss approach to solving marital problems which usually only includes "some" marriage counseling that is often a diluted form of marriage therapy (read here about what full-strength therapy is), reading books that people say "I read that and it didn't work" when really they read a quarter of it and didn't apply in any consistent manner what was taught, or they attended a support group...
The Marriage Academy's unique approach instead provides a systematic, consistent, and comprehensive, non-pick-and-choose required Core Curriculum that will give you the specific knowledge-base, tools and accountability to practice them
Parents and grandparents: This is not only a great gift to your engaged and/or newlywed children this is more importantly a solid investment in their and their children's marital and family success and happiness.
