SYMBIS Relationship Assessments

SYMBIS (Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts) is a research-based relationship assessment designed to help couples build a strong, lasting foundation—whether you are dating, engaged, newly married, or even years into your relationship.

It goes beyond surface-level conversations by offering a personalized snapshot of your relationship, helping you better understand your personalities, communication styles, expectations, and potential growth areas.

At its core, SYMBIS is designed to do two powerful things:

  • Identify potential risk areas before they become problems

  • Highlight your strengths so you can build on them intentionally

What is SYMBIS ?

SYMBIS is beneficial for couples at any stage, including:

  • Premarital / engaged couples

  • Dating couples considering long-term commitment

  • Newly married couples

  • Long-term couples wanting to reconnect or strengthen their relationship

The assessment automatically adjusts to your relationship stage, so the feedback is always relevant to you.

Who is SYMBIS for ?

SYMBIS explores the areas that matter most in long-term relationships, including:

  • Personality dynamics and how you “fit” together

  • Communication styles and conflict patterns

  • Financial perspectives and decision-making

  • Emotional health and individual wellbeing

  • Expectations around love, intimacy, and roles

  • Family background and relational influences

It helps couples understand both similarities and differences in how they approach life and relationships, which is key to long-term success.

What does SYMBIS Measure ?

Couples often choose SYMBIS because it helps them:

  • Have conversations they didn’t know how to start

  • Understand each other on a deeper level

  • Prevent future conflict by addressing things early

  • Build confidence and clarity in their relationship

It’s not about finding problems—it’s about building a stronger, more intentional relationship from the start (or wherever you are now).

Why Couples Choose SYMBIS ?

What to Expect from Sessions

At Hope Crest, SYMBIS sessions are designed to feel engaging, supportive, and practical—not overwhelming or clinical.

Together, we will:

  • Break down your personalized report in a clear, meaningful way

  • Identify strengths to build on and patterns to shift

  • Learn communication and relationship tools you can actually use

  • Create a shared understanding of how to move forward as a team

Many couples describe this process as one of the first times they feel like they are truly “on the same page.”

The SYMBIS process is simple, structured, and highly personalized:

Step 1: Individual Online Assessment

Each partner completes a 30-minute online questionnaire separately to ensure honest and accurate responses.

Step 2: Personalized Report

Your answers are combined into a detailed, customized report (typically 15–16 pages) that outlines your relationship dynamics, strengths, and growth areas.

Step 3: Guided Feedback Sessions

You’ll meet with Jillian, your Certified SYMBIS Facilitator, to walk through your results, process insights, and apply them in practical ways.

Step 4: Ongoing Conversations & Skill Building

The report becomes a roadmap for meaningful conversations and skill-building sessions that strengthen your relationship over time.

What Makes SYMBIS Different ?

SYMBIS isn’t just an assessment—it’s a guided experience.

✔️ Personalized – Your results are unique to your relationship

✔️ Research-based – Built on decades of relationship science

✔️ Action-oriented – Not just insight, but practical tools

✔️ Facilitated – You don’t have to figure it out alone

Because of its depth, SYMBIS is always paired with a trained facilitator who helps you translate insight into real-life change.

SYMBIS is more than an assessment—it’s a guided experience designed to help you build a strong, lasting foundation together.

Our SYMBIS package includes:

  • Individual online assessment for each partner

  • Comprehensive personalized report

  • Facilitated feedback sessions with a Certified SYMBIS Facilitator

  • Practical tools and guided conversations tailored to your relationship

Investment in your Relationship

Foundations Package – $450

  • Assessment + Report

  • 2 Feedback Sessions

Growth Package – $650

  • Assessment + Report

  • 3 Feedback Sessions

  • Additional support for deeper processing, communication, and application

SYMBIS Options

Payment plans are available upon request.

Because SYMBIS is a specialized relationship assessment and enrichment service, it is not covered by insurance.

This allows us to:

  • Proide more personalized, in-depth support

  • Focus on your relationship without diagnosis or medical necessity requirements

  • Create a more meaningful and flexible experiencev

Insurance & Payment

Many couples spend more time planning a wedding than preparing for the relationship itself.

SYMBIS helps you:

  • Prevent future conflict by addressing things early

  • Strengthen communication and connection

  • Build a relationship with intention—not guesswork

This is an investment in your future together.

Why This Investment Matters

  • "I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone."

    —J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

  • "To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow—this is a human offering that can border on miraculous."

    —Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed

  • "Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place."

    —Zora Neale Hurston

  • "No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, compromise, and give something up to gain something greater."

    —Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby