Stop Fighting in Circles. Start Feeling Like a Team Again.
Christian Marriage & Relationship Coaching
Practical, research-informed marriage and relationship coaching that helps couples understand what’s keeping them stuck, improve communication, resolve conflict, rebuild connection, and create healthier patterns that last.
Does This Sound Familiar?
You love each other, but lately it feels harder to reach each other.
- Conversations quickly turn into arguments, defensiveness, or silence.
- You keep fighting about the same issues without reaching a real resolution.
- You feel more like roommates or co-parents than husband and wife.
- Emotional or physical intimacy has faded, and you miss the closeness you once shared.
- One or both of you feels misunderstood, unappreciated, rejected or alone in the relationship.
- You’ve tried talking through your concerns—or may have even sought support before—but still do not feel equipped to change the patterns keeping you stuck.
If you’ve ever found yourself asking, “Why do we keep having the same fight?” or “How did we end up here?” you’re not alone—and understanding the answer is often the first step toward meaningful change.
Your Marriage Can Feel Different
Most couples don’t seek help because they don’t love each other anymore. They seek help because they’ve fallen into patterns they don’t know how to change. The good news is that unhealthy relationship patterns can be understood—and when they’re understood, they can begin to change.
Together, we will work toward helping you:
Communicate Without Escalating
Express your thoughts, feelings, and needs more clearly—and learn how to listen without immediately becoming defensive, dismissive, or overwhelmed.
Break Unhealthy Conflict Patterns
Understand what keeps your arguments going in circles and learn healthier ways to address disagreements, repair hurt, and move forward.
Rebuild Friendship and Connection
Create more emotional closeness, affection, enjoyment, and intentional time together so that you can feel like partners again.
Strengthen Trust and Intimacy
Address the patterns that have weakened safety and connection while building habits that support emotional and physical intimacy.
Become a Stronger Team
Develop a shared vision for your marriage, align your priorities, and learn how to approach challenges together instead of treating each other like the enemy.
Create Lasting Change
Move beyond temporary improvements by practicing healthier habits, mindsets, and relationship skills that can continue serving your marriage.
The goal is not simply to stop arguing. It is to help you build a healthier, lasting marriage that you can genuinely enjoy.
What You Can Expect
Every relationship has a unique history, set of challenges, and vision for the future. Your experience should reflect that.
Understand Your Relationship
We’ll begin by understanding your relationship, and the challenges you’re experiencing. Together we’ll identify deeper patterns affecting your relationship and we’ll explore what’s beneath them—communication habits, unmet emotional needs, recurring dynamics, expectations, unresolved hurts, and the ways each partner naturally responds to stress and conflict. We’ll also talk about the kind of marriage you’d like to create.
Learn Necessary Skills
You will learn relationship tools and communication strategies designed to help you better understand one another, navigate conflict, strengthen connection, and work together more effectively.
Practice and Apply
You will have opportunities to practice healthier conversations during our sessions, receive personalized guidance and feedback, and apply what you are learning in your everyday relationship.
My coaching style is active, educational, collaborative, and forward-focused. The goal is not simply to talk about what is wrong, but to help you gain clarity, develop practical skills, and begin making meaningful and sustainable changes towards the marriage you desire.
Meet Nadine Stewart
Marriage and Relationship Coach, Educator, Author, and Speaker
I help couples understand the patterns keeping them stuck and learn practical ways to communicate more effectively, navigate conflict, rebuild connection, and create healthier relationships.
My coaching style is compassionate, direct, educational, and goal-oriented. I want both partners to feel heard and respected, while also helping each person recognize the changes within their control.
My Christian faith has deeply shaped who I am, how I view marriage, and the values I bring to my work. At the same time, clients do not need to share my faith to work with me. I welcome couples from different backgrounds and tailor the coaching experience to their values, needs, and goals. Biblical wisdom can be incorporated for couples who desire it.
Credential highlights:
- Certified Christian Marriage and Relationship Coach
- Gottman Seven Principles Program Leader
- SYMBIS Facilitator
- Prepare/Enrich Facilitator
- Author of One Question a Day to a Stronger Marriage
- Co-host of A Purpose Driven Marriage Podcast
The average couple waits 6 YEARS from the onset of their marriage problems before getting help.
Don’t let that be you!
DO YOU OFFER IN-PERSON SESSIONS?
Yes, Nadine offers in person sessions at her office in the East Renton Highlands in Washington State. She also offers virtual sessions for those who prefer it and for clients who live out of the area.
DO YOU TAKE INSURANCE?
No, we are unable to take insurance.
DO YOU OFFER 1:1 OR INDIVIDUAL COACHING?
Yes, in addition to couples and group coaching, Nadine does offer 1:1 coaching. There are a number of situations where people want to work on themselves or on what’s within their own control in order to have a healthier relationship. Additionally, couples always have the option to schedule 1:1 sessions with Nadine even if they usually see her together.
HOW LONG ARE THE SESSIONS?
Nadine offers both one-hour and 90-minute sessions. In special cases, she can also offer an intensive option where she meets with the clients for an extended period of time during the course of a day or weekend. If this is what you’re looking for, please fill out a contact form to learn her rates and availability for an intensive option.
DO YOU OFFER CONSULTATIONS BEFORE WE BOOK OUR FIRST SESSION?
Yes, we can offer a complimentary 15-minute consultation virtually. Please request an appointment on this website and select the 15-minute consulation.
DO I NEED TO BE A CHRISTIAN TO WORK WITH NADINE?
No, not at all. We work with non-Christian and Christian clients. Nadine, herself, is a Christian, and her approach to helping her clients is personalized to each couple and the specific needs of their relationship. She utilizes a lot of proven research in what she teaches and has been very effective in working with a diverse clientelle.
DO YOU OFFER PREMARITAL COUNSELING?
Yes, we absolutely do. We offer a six-session package for $997, and it includes two relationship assessments.
WE ARE CHRISTIANS AND WANT TO INCORPORATE BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES INTO OUR COACHING. IS THAT SOMETHING NADINE CAN DO?
Yes, absolutely. Nadine is very well versed in what the Bible teaches about marriage and continues to build on her knowledge through daily Bible study and continuous learning.
HOW IS MARRIAGE COACHING DIFFERENT FROM TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE COUNSELING?
In Marriage or Relationship Coaching, the emphasis is in taking the relationship from where it is, to where you desire for it to be. We strongly believe that couples don’t have to settle for a mediocre marriage, nor do you have to accept the fate of an unhealthy relationship. Marriages are meant to thrive and we show couples exactly how you can implement sustainable change in your own relationship so you can have a healthy marriage that you can enjoy and model for your children.
In Marriage and Relationship Coaching, we take a deep dive into your relationship history; identify habits, patterns, and beliefs that have brought you to this point as a couple and individual; remove roadblocks that make you stuck; and teach you the proven tools and techniques, healthy habits, researched-based principles, and effective mindset that will help you to communicate more effectively, resolve conflict in a healthy way, create greater connection and intimacy, and enjoy a friendship with one another once again. We are forward-thinking and goal-driven in our approach, spending less time dwelling on past issues, and more time working towards the necessary changes and behavior modifications needed to achieve the outcome and healthy relationship we desire to have.
As Coaches, we don’t diagnose or treat medical or psychological conditions; and we are not attorneys or mental health counselors.
WILL NADINE'S HUSBAND, DUANE, ALSO BE INVOLVED IN THE COACHING?
No, he will not. Duane and Nadine host a podcast together called A Purpose Driven Marriage Podcast and also teach workshops together. All private and group coaching are with Nadine only.
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Because your marriage is meant to thrive…
Whether you’re…
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In a good season of marriage and just want to level up to a great one
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Struggling to connect with your spouse and feel like you’re slowly drifting apart
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Feeling like you’re living separate lives because you can’t seem to communicate without it turning into an argument so you’d rather not even talk
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Tired of feeling misunderstood and would love to be able to effectively share how you feel while equally understanding your spouse’s perspective
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Ready to stop the constant fighting and begin enjoying marriage with your best friend again