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Personal · Relationship · Family Coaching

The journey inward
is the journey together.

Grounded in clinical training and decades of lived experience, Ray Davey and Nancy Carpenter walk alongside individuals, couples, and families navigating the terrain of personal growth, relationship healing, and deepened connection.

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Our Belief

Every relationship is a school for the soul.

We believe that the quality of our relationships determines the quality of our lives. Not as an abstract idea — as a lived reality that shows up in every interaction, every conflict, every moment of tenderness, and every season of growth and struggle.

With backgrounds in Marriage and Family Therapy, clinical training, and a lifetime of personal experience walking this path, we bring both clinical skill and deep personal knowing to our work with clients.

Awareness
Seeing yourself and your partner clearly — without defense.
Connection
Building the bridge between who you are and who you love.
Growth
Choosing, again and again, to become more whole.
Flourishing
Relationships that nourish, inspire, and sustain life.

"The relationship is not the problem — the relationship is the path. Every rupture contains within it the seeds of a deeper repair than you thought possible."

— Nancy Carpenter
What We Offer

Where we walk with you

Whether you're preparing for marriage, navigating a season of distance, working through something painful, or simply hungry for something deeper — there's a path forward. Here's where we can walk it together.

Pre-Marital Assessment & Coaching

Using the research-validated PREPARE inventory developed by Dr. David Olson, we walk engaged couples through a thorough, honest, and hopeful exploration of their relationship — strengths, growth areas, communication patterns, and the things worth talking about before the wedding day.

Marriage Enrichment

For couples who aren't in crisis but are hungry for more — more depth, more connection, more of what drew them together. Using the ENRICH program, we help established couples rediscover, strengthen, and celebrate what they've built — and build on it intentionally.

Marriage & Family Coaching

Couples and families navigating conflict, communication breakdowns, transitions, or disconnection will find in us skilled, compassionate guides. We use IMAGO-informed approaches, Couple Communication frameworks, and our clinical training and life experience to help you find your way back to each other.

Individual Coaching

Sometimes the work begins alone. Whether you're in a relationship and struggling, single and reflecting, or navigating a personal transition — individual coaching creates the space to understand yourself more deeply, clarify what you want, and grow into the person and partner you want to be.

Small Group Enrichment

Ray and Nancy have led couples through marriage enrichment experiences in both small group and private formats. There is something uniquely powerful about working alongside other couples who are also committed to growth — community that normalizes the struggle and celebrates the progress.

Relationship Assessments

Assessment isn't about scoring your relationship — it's about seeing it clearly. We use PREPARE/ENRICH and other validated tools to give couples an honest, compassionate portrait of where they are, what they're doing well, and where growth is most likely to have the greatest impact.

How We Work

Grounded. Collaborative. Hopeful.

We don't believe in cookie-cutter processes or one-size-fits-all programs. We believe in meeting you where you are, honoring your unique story, and working together toward what you most want. Every interaction begins with listening — really listening — and grows from there.

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A Conversation

We begin with a no-pressure conversation to understand where you are, what you're hoping for, and whether we're the right fit. We take both questions seriously.

02
Clear Picture

For couples, we often begin with assessment — not to judge, but to see clearly. A validated portrait of your relationship strengths and growth edges is the most honest place to start.

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Guided Journey

Session by session, we walk alongside you. The pace is yours. The agenda is yours. Our job is to create the conditions in which you can do the bravest and most rewarding work of your life.

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Sustained Growth

The goal is never dependency on us — it's a life and relationship you can sustain and build on your own. We'll know we've done our job when you don't need us anymore.

Perspectives

Insights for the journey

Reflections on the tools, frameworks, and lived wisdom that shape how we work — and how couples and individuals grow.

Pre-Marital · Enrichment
What PREPARE/ENRICH Actually Tells You About Your Relationship

Thirty years in, David Olson's instrument still surprises couples with what it surfaces — not problems, but possibilities. Here's how we use it, and why.

Ray Davey
IMAGO · Couples Work
Why We Fall in Love With Who We Do

Harville Hendrix's IMAGO theory changed how I understand every relationship I've ever been in — including my own. What I want you to know about the wound and the gift.

Nancy Carpenter
Communication · Skill-Building
The Conversation You Never Learned to Have

Sherod Miller's Couple Communication program gives couples skills most of us were never taught — and changes what's possible in even the most entrenched patterns. Ray and Nancy reflect together.

Ray & Nancy
Trained Directly By

Standing on the shoulders of the field's best

We have had the rare privilege of being trained directly by some of the most influential voices in the history of relationship science and therapy. That lineage shapes everything we do.

Harville Hendrix, Ph.D.
IMAGO Relationship Theory

Creator of IMAGO Relationship Theory and bestselling author of Getting the Love You Want. His theory of the Imago — the unconscious image of love we carry — transformed our understanding of romantic attraction and conflict.

David Olson, Ph.D.
PREPARE/ENRICH

Developer of PREPARE/ENRICH, the world's most widely used pre-marital and marriage assessment tool, used by more than four million couples. Dr. Olson's research-based approach gives couples the honest portrait they need to build something lasting.

Sherod Miller, Ph.D.
Couple Communication

Pioneer of the Couple Communication program, which has equipped hundreds of thousands of couples with practical, learnable skills for deeper listening, honest expression, and productive conflict. The skills Ray and Nancy teach come directly from his foundational work.

Curt Levang, Ph.D.
Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor (PBSP)

Creator of the LIFE assessment and leading trainer in Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor (PBSP) Theory — a body-based, experiential approach to reaching one's full potential. Dr. Levang's work has deepened how we understand the somatic roots of relational patterns and the pathways to wholeness.

Who We Are

Two practitioners.
One shared commitment.

Ray and Nancy have been partners in life and in this work for more than twenty-five years. What they've built together — professionally and personally — is the ground from which everything they offer grows.

Ray Davey
Ray Davey
Coach · Facilitator · Advisor

Ray is a people-first leader who has spent his career — across military service, entrepreneurship, executive leadership, and clinical practice — learning that results happen through relationships. A former Licensed Associate Marriage and Family Therapist in the State of Minnesota, Ray brings warmth, directness, humor, and a profound belief in human potential to every client engagement. He is the kind of coach who sees the best in you before you can see it in yourself — and who holds you accountable to becoming it.

Education
M.A. — Marriage and Family Therapy
B.S. — Management
Certifications & Training
PREPARE/ENRICH Certified Facilitator
Couple Communication
IMAGO Relationship Theory
PBSP Theory and Practice
Couplehood As a Spiritual Path
Former LAMFT — State of Minnesota
Nancy Carpenter
Nancy Carpenter
Coach · Consultant · Facilitator

Nancy is a skilled clinician, organizational consultant, and coach whose work has one consistent thread: the deep belief that people, seen clearly and supported well, are capable of extraordinary change. A former Licensed Associate Marriage and Family Therapist in the State of Minnesota, Nancy meets clients with the kind of steady, empathic presence that creates safety — and then gently, persistently pushes toward growth. She moves from particular moments to universal truths, and her clients tend to leave sessions understanding themselves better than when they arrived.

Education
M.A. — Marriage and Family Therapy
B.A. — Sociology
Certifications & Training
PREPARE/ENRICH Certified Facilitator
Couple Communication
IMAGO Relationship Theory
Couplehood As a Spiritual Path
EQ-i Emotional Intelligence Certification
Former LAMFT — State of Minnesota
Take the First Step

Every great relationship begins with a conversation.

Whether you're curious, ready, or somewhere in between — reach out. We'd be honored to hear your story and explore whether we're the right partners for your journey.

612-460-7271 Minneapolis, MN
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