Symbis Assessment 

🕊️ The SYMBIS Assessment: Launching Lifelong Love

The SYMBIS Assessment is an award-winning premarital and marital therapy tool created by marriage experts Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott. Standing for Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts, data from the official SYMBIS platform shows that couples who invest in premarital preparation cut their divorce rates by a powerful 31%.

This comprehensive instrument functions as a personalized roadmap, revealing unique compatibility strengths and identifying hidden relationship stress points before they cause friction.

               💻 Key Features of the SYMBIS Experience

Convenient Online Format:

Partners complete the core diagnostic questions independently on any screen—whether using a laptop, tablet, or phone.

Short Duration: The private digital assessment takes only 30 to 40 minutes to complete.

Detailed Results:

The system generates a comprehensive, 16-page personalized roadmap tailored exclusively to your unique couple dynamics.

Versatile Design:

The curriculum seamlessly adapts to serve dating, engaged, newlywed, or remarrying couples.

🏛️ Expert Guidance with Dr. Mel McGee

As a certified SYMBIS Facilitator, Dr. McGee walks alongside couples to unpack their custom report, navigate complex results, and transform insights into practical, God-honoring habits.

A central focus of this guided review is uncovering and understanding your personal "Ten Commandments"—the hidden behavioral expectations, unspoken rules, and silent roles inherited from families of origin.

 

Unpacking the Invisible Rules

  • The Blueprint: These are the unconscious boundaries, traditions, ethics, and emotional habits quietly formed during your childhood.
  • Common Real-World Examples:
    • “Never raise your voice during an argument.”
    • “Always clean the entire kitchen completely before going to bed.”
    • “Never ask for help unless you are entirely desperate.”
    • “Do not discuss family money matters or deep feelings in public.”
  • The Impact: When partners unknowingly operate under clashing silent rules, it creates intense friction, unmet expectations, and deep confusion, as neither spouse fully understands why the other is genuinely upset.
  • The Goal: Dr. McGee utilizes the inventory to bring these invisible frameworks directly to the surface, allowing couples to evaluate, modify, or rewrite their home guidelines together as a unified team.

📊 Core Areas Assessed

The diagnostic profile evaluates five essential dimensions of your relationship to kick friction to the curb:

  1. Personalities: Unpacking how individual temperaments and communication styles mesh together.
  2. Family Origins: Examining upbringing patterns and generational background dynamics.
  3. Money Habits: Aligning financial mindsets, money methods, and debt philosophies.
  4. Conflict Resolution: Identifying reactive argument triggers and teaching healthy "fight types".
  5. Intimacy Views: Aligning sexual expectations, emotional bonding needs, and deepest longings.

Personalities: How individual dynamics mesh together.

 

👥 Who are SYMBIS Couples?

  • Dating Couples: Serious relationships looking to build better communication and talk styles before taking next steps.
  • Engaged Couples: The most common group utilizing the assessment to prepare for marriage with clarity, teamwork, and God at the center.
  • Newlyweds: Couples adjusting to early structural changes, blending everyday routines, and managing new expectations.
  • Long-Term Couples: Mature marriages looking to refresh communication, break old stuck habits, and deepen passion.
  • Couples in Transition:Families navigating major life disruptions, blending households, facing career shifts, or caregiving for an aging, ill parent.

📝 Next Steps for Your Journey

To get the maximum benefit from your SYMBIS package, couples will move through these four structured phases:

  • Test Separately: Ensure you finish all online answers privately without any partner assistance or joint discussion.
  • Attend Sessions: Dedicate 4 to 6 therapeutic appointments to review your custom roadmap in depth.
  • Review Flags: Target specific relationship risk triggers and hard topics openly in a safe, confidential environment.
  • Practice Skills: Actively apply your personalized tools and communication exercises within your daily life.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Eye-opening roadmap for our marriage!
"My fiancé and I booked the SYMBIS Assessment package with Dr. McGee at Arizona Covenant before our wedding, and it was easily the best investment we made. The online test itself was incredibly detailed but easy to take separately. When we sat down with Dr. McGee to go over our 15-page Marriage Momentum report, we were blown away by how accurately it highlighted our personalities and communication gaps. Dr. McGee didn't use the data to tell us what we were doing wrong; instead, she used it as a conversational roadmap. She helped us talk through difficult subjects like family-of-origin habits, financial mindsets, and unspoken expectations without any friction. We came away with a customized toolkit for solving arguments and a much deeper understanding of each other. If you are getting married, skip the generic advice and do this assessment with Dr. McGee!" Cory & Sasha