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Making Marriage Work Workshop
with Dr. Happiness
Your Ticket to a Happy Marriage in 30 Days... Even if D'Arcy is Booked Months in Advance
You're ready to improve your relationship NOW,
but you have 1 (or more) of these problems…
You Need an Expert
Attempts to solve your relationship issues on your own haven't gone so well. (Yikes!)
You Need the Best
Your marriage is too valuable to risk on a therapist who doesn't have great success rates.
You Need Help Now
D'Arcy's calendar is booked full, and you don't want to wait weeks or months to start.
You Need a Tune Up
You’re looking for a class to re-boot your love life or prepare for marriage.
D’Arcy Vanderpool, MA, MFT, PCC
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
Hi, I'm D'Arcy Vanderpool.
When I announced my Accelerated Couples Therapy programs and retreats in 2020 during the pandemic, my appointment calendar filled up in just 6 weeks.
In the last 6 months, I’ve had to turn away 20+ couples every month because my calendar is booked solid.
What to Do?
I tried...
- Adding people to a waitlist for the 1st available opening
- Sending people to trusted colleagues in the area
- Adding additional days and hours to my calendar
But at 70+ years of age, I couldn't keep working the long hours I did 20 or 30 years ago.
I Needed a Way to Help Couples Get Started on Their Journey to a Happy Marriage WHILE They Waited to Begin Couples Therapy with Me.
I also wanted this new program to work for all kinds of couples:
Couples contemplating engagement
Head-over-heels in love and thinking about making it forever.
Pre-marital couples
You're completely in love and want to keep it that way after the wedding.
Committed couples living together
Emotionally committed couples trying to navigate conflicts and issues
Couples who have been married for decades
Create the connection, peace, and intimacy you once had
Couples who want to have a happy marriage for years to come…
Because this workshop is just the beginning of your "happily ever after."
I decided to combine the BEST methods I knew with a PROVEN format that works…
Gottman Method Therapy
Accelerated Couples Therapy
Small Group Workshops
Making Marriage Work is a live workshop series that helps couples dramatically enrich their relationship in 30 days without 1:1 counseling.
Perfect for committed couples in long-term relationships.
The Making Marriage Work Workshop with Dr. Happiness is based on the 40 years of research by John Gottman –AND- D’Arcy’s 45 years of helping couples create more happiness in their relationships.
Workshop Schedule
- WHAT: Four (4), consecutive weekly classes
- WHEN: Tuesdays, 6:00-8:00pm
- WHERE: Dr. Happiness Office Suite at 8440 W. Lake Mead Blvd., Suite 212, Las Vegas, Nevada 89128-7648
- SIZE: Limited to 6 couples per workshop
What's Included
Introduction to Marriage Enhancement & Emotional Connection
What We'll Work On:
- Recognizing and improving cultural, family and personal issues affecting your relationship
- Learning soothing and relaxation skills
- Improving your emotional connection, friendship, fondness, and admiration for one another
Communication Skills
What We'll Work On:
- Cultivating simple attitudes and techniques so you can communicate as partners, not enemies
- Developing basic couples conversation skills that help you become a good speaker and great listener
- Expanding other communication techniques
Managing Conflict
What We'll Work On:
- Mastering basic communication skills
- Managing triggers and personal issues
- Further enriching intimate conversations
The Affirming Relationship
What We'll Work On:
- Expanding your emotional connection, deep friendship, and appreciation of one another
- Enriching skills in shared values, activities, meaning and intimacy
- Affirming your goals so your vision for the relationship can flourish
You'll walk away with enhanced relationship and communication skills that enable you to have a Happy Marriage now and for years to come.
You Also Get These Fabulous Bonuses
Bonus #1
Book: The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
Book by John M Gottman, Ph.D. and Nan Silver.
In this book, couples learn new approaches for resolving conflicts, creating new common ground, and achieving greater levels of intimacy. Based on John Gottman’s unprecedented study of couples, this book provides the basis for the Making Marriage Work Workshop and offers strategies and resources to help couples collaborate more effectively to resolve any problem, whether dealing with issues related to sex, money, religion, work, family, or anything else.
Bonus #2
2 Guides: The Seven Principles Couples Guide
By John M Gottman, Ph.D. and Nan Silver
The Making Marriage Work Couples Guide helps couples complete the class assignments from the “Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work” book. The guide is packed full of practical questionnaires and exercises to help couples deepen their foundation of friendship, successfully manage conflict, honor one another’s dreams, and create shared meaning in their life.
Bonus #3
2 Workbooks: Creating Your Affirming Relationship Workbook
By D’Arcy Vanderpool, MA, MFT, PCC
This workbook takes the Gottman Method to the next level with additional guides, tools, and skills to help couples transform themselves and their relationship. Based on Accelerated Couples Therapy, positive psychology, and D’Arcy’s 45 years experience working with couples, this workbook will help couples enhance their relationship with advanced personal development techniques and skills that you don’t find in the typical marriage retreat.
Bonus #4
Love Map Card Deck & Open-ended Questions Card Deck
By The Gottman Institute
These cards enable partners to connect emotionally, and increase intimacy and understanding in a fun, gentle way.
Bonus #5
Gottman Card Decks app for smart phones and tablets
By The Gottman Institute
This fun app includes 14 card decks and offers helpful questions, statements, and ideas for improving your relationship. Available for iOS and Android devices.
Bonus #6
The Gottman Relationship Checkup Assessment
By The Gottman Institute
Leave the workshop series knowing what relationship issues to tackle next. Couples complete the online assessment before the last class and receive a brief list of things to do after the workshop based on Gottman’s Seven Principles of Making Marriage Work book. They may also schedule a separate private session with D’Arcy to discuss details of their report and ongoing couple therapy. (Extra Session is $200 and not included in workshop registration fee.)
Making Marriage Work Workshop
Making Marriage Work is a LIVE, 4-class In-person Workshop Series that Helps Couples Dramatically Enrich Their Relationship in 30 Days without 1:1 Counseling.
Four in-person, weekly classes...
And these bonuses...
(Total Value $1,963)
Regular Price - Only $1495.00
Today's Price - Only $995.00
Private Group Workshops Available
The Making Marriage Work Workshops can also be designed and scheduled for churches, synagogues, and other organizations.
Call D’Arcy at 1-702-242-4222 for more information.
William & Susie
Here is an example of the amazing results couples have achieved with Accelerated Couples Therapy in the Making Marriage Work Workshop with Dr. Happiness. (Names and specifics have been changed to protect individual privacy.)
Will and Susie were retired early, after an extremely successful law related business and 25 years of marriage. But they were very distant and used to arguing with daily battles and little feeling of intimacy and kindness. She was critical, and he was withdrawn. Both were angry, bitter, and hopeless.
After three classes of The Making Marriage Work Workshop, they were feeling friendly, complimenting each other, and learning how to listen and summarize each other’s perspective on previously arguable topics. He struggled a bit with summarizing and she with “I” statements, but they were laughing and wanting to talk about solving their lack of sexual intimacy issues. Their children were pointing out to them how they were getting along better and encouraging them to continue with the classes.
They were having the very best of conversations, felt like a team, and were having happy and enjoyable sex by class #4. At the end of the class, they felt they had changed their relationship from a war to a loving marriage. They were feeling open and excited to be with each other, and were recapturing the feelings of intimacy and love that were flourishing early in their relationship. They said they were happy to have created their affirming relationship, and they’ve referred several friends to the program! They decided to do a few sessions of marriage counseling after the workshop, giving them experience with mastery and ensuring their childhood patterns were managed successfully.
My promise to you is to go above and beyond to give you an exceptional experience, providing you with the benefits of my wisdom, specialized training, and 40+ years experience helping couples have a happy marriage.
D’Arcy Vanderpool, MA, MFT, PCC
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
D'Arcy is a Gottman Certified Leader of the Making Marriage Work Couples Program & member of the Gottman Referral Network.
Dr. Happiness
About D'Arcy Vanderpool
D’Arcy Vanderpool is a licensed marriage and family therapist, certified coach, best-selling author, and nationally recognized relationship expert featured on radio and television. She’s helped thousands of couples over the last 40 years find love and happiness again.
She’s dedicated her career to developing the skills necessary to help couples save their relationships fast. Using Accelerated Couples Therapy, her clients can accomplish months of therapy in just a few days.
Her 90% success rate makes her an in-demand therapist for celebrity and high-profile professionals. And her clients have flown into Las Vegas to work with her from all over the US, Europe, and the Middle East.
D'Arcy is a Gottman Certified Leader of the Making Marriage Work Couples Program & member of the Gottman Referral Network.
Since 1975, clients have benefited from her experience, wisdom, humor, and especially her positive take on life.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Please contact me at 1-702-242-4222 for a free 15 minute consultation if you have any questions about whether the workshop will be a good fit for you. This workshop assumes that you and your spouse/partner will participate in all the couples exercises and assignments.
This is a small group workshop or psychoeducational class with up to six couples so there isn’t any 1:1 counseling. This is a skill-based class rather than counseling. However, there will be plenty of Q&A time available during the 4 classes you attend.
Privacy is very important to me, as it is for you. Participants will not share their personal problems in front of others. Couples only share the exercises with their partner, and nothing is shared in the group setting.
You should have about 15-20 minutes a day – or 2 hours a week – for homework. You need the time to practice the different skills to improve your connection and communication. If you don’t have that much time you should reconsider taking the class or sign up at a time you can do the homework.
Please contact me at 1-702-242-4222 for a free 15 minute consultation if you have any questions about whether the workshop will be a good fit for you.
The Making Marriage Work Workshop with Dr. Happiness is appropriate for couples contemplating engagement, for pre-marital couples, for couples living together, and for couples who have been together or married for decades and want to enhance their connection and communication.
Psychoeducational classes or workshops like this are not appropriate for all couples, including those with severe relationship distress, significant emotional or physical abuse, serious emotional or mental health problems, relationships where one or both partners are actively addicted to drugs or alcohol, and relationships with serious compulsive behavior with gaming, sexual acting out, and other disruptive behaviors.
Refunds and rescheduling are made available in cases of emergency as follows:
Workshop attendees may receive a refund before class #2 for the registration price LESS a $350.00 administrative fee. No refunds will be provided after class #2.
Workshop registration may be transferred to another workshop date within 1 year of the initial registration. However, transfer must be requested no later than 2 weeks before start of the workshop you registered for. So if a workshop is to begin on the 17th of the month, the last day to request transfer to a different date is the 2nd of that month.
If someone becomes ill or has a medical emergency, they can transfer to a later workshop where there is an opening and complete the program with that group.
First, this is the only group-type program offered. All other programs are private meetings.
Second, the workshop doesn’t include 1-on-1 couples therapy, which would only be possible in a private setting.
Third, the focus is to jump start a couple’s journey to having a happy marriage by giving them essential skills.
Fourth, it’s often the fastest way to get started working personally with D’Arcy.
Yes. I offer free 15 minute consultations. You can contact me at 1-702-242-4222. I also offer a 90-minute, New Beginning Sessions for new clients; learn more here: https://drhappiness.com/marriage-counseling
Workshops are limited to only 6 couples, and THEY WILL FILL QUICKLY.
Accelerated Couples Therapy + Gottman Method
Making Marriage Work Workshop is perfect for committed couples in long-term relationships who want to...
Work Personally with D'Arcy
Skip to the front of the line and work with D'Arcy - in an exclusive, small-group setting - when her calendar is booked months in advance.
Get Immediate Relationship Help
Couples can receive guidance and develop relationship skills while waiting to begin their marriage counseling, for whatever reason.
Go Beyond the Gottman Method
John Gottman’s work has been proven 70-90% successful. And D'Arcy's success rate is 96% with couples in long-term therapy.
Start Pre-marital Counseling
It's a great opportunity for pre-marital couples to learn skills that can enrich their relationship through a lifetime together.
Get the Attention and Focus Your Relationship Needs... in Just a Few Hours a Week
Making Marriage Work Workshop
Making Marriage Work is a LIVE, 4-class In-person Workshop Series that Helps Couples Dramatically Enrich Their Relationship in 30 Days without 1:1 Counseling.
Four in-person, weekly classes...
And these bonuses...
(Total Value $1,963)
Regular Price - Only $1495.00
Today's Price - Only $995.00