Christian Marriage Coaching - Austin, TX | Couples Coaching
Christian Marriage Mentorship · All Traditions Welcome

Thirty Days From Now,
Your Marriage Could Be Unrecognizable

"Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her." — Ephesians 5:25

You already know your marriage was made for more. You've known it for a while. This is the conversation you've been waiting to have.

Free · 15 minutes · No sales pitch · For husbands and wives
Jeremy and Ashley Augusta
Jeremy & Ashley Augusta Authors of 5 books on Christian marriage · Eastern Orthodox & Catholic framework · Austin, TX · Online worldwide
5 Published Books on Marriage
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This is not marriage counseling

This Is About Making Your Marriage Holy

There is a version of your marriage that you have glimpsed and never been able to hold onto. A moment after a long conversation, or a quiet Sunday morning, where it felt like what God actually intended. Then something happened and it slipped away. This work is about making that version permanent.

Not by fixing what's wrong — though that will happen. But by doing something harder: deciding that your marriage is an act of worship, not just a relationship to manage. That every choice you make toward your spouse is either an offering to God or a withholding from Him.

Ephesians 5:25 is not a marital tip. It is the most demanding standard ever given to a spouse. When you start living it — not aspiring to it, not admiring it, actually living it — your marriage cannot stay the same. Neither can you.

"Every act of love, every moment of service, becomes an offering to God. That is the heartbeat of marriage as worship."
— From Intentional Love
  • You love your spouse — but you suspect you're not yet loving them the way Scripture demands
  • Your marriage works. But something in you knows "works" isn't what God had in mind
  • You've read Ephesians 5:25 a hundred times and still aren't sure what it actually looks like on a Tuesday
  • You want your children to grow up watching a marriage they'll spend their whole lives trying to build
  • You're willing to be the one who changes first, even if your spouse doesn't know you're doing it
  • You want strangers to notice something different about how you treat each other — and ask about your faith
  • You're tired of knowing what your marriage could be and not knowing how to get there

Everything You Get — And Why It's Different

Most coaching gives you a framework and hopes you follow through. This walks with you every step — personally, biblically, and with real accountability.

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Weekly Sessions Built Around Your Marriage

Every session follows a clear structure: What worked this week? Where did you struggle? What wins — big or small — happened in your marriage? We cover everything: marriage conflicts, spiritual doubts, wins, and anything else weighing on you.

Everything is filtered through a biblical framework. Every problem — whether it's conflict with your spouse or doubt in your faith — is addressed through Scripture, not psychology.

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Email & Text Support Between Sessions

When something comes up mid-week — a conflict, a difficult moment, a question about how to respond biblically — you reach out. You get a real response with Scripture and framework, not in next week's session, but when you actually need it.

This prevents one hard day from derailing your week. You're not counting down to your next call. You're living the transformation every day, with support when you need it.

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Practical Work Tailored to Your Marriage

Every week, Jeremy identifies one practical thing specific to where you are right now — not a generic program, not homework. Something doable even in a busy week. Something that opens up a real conversation or creates a meaningful moment.

No checklists. No rigid curriculum. Just one intentional thing this week that actually fits your life and moves your marriage forward.

Theology of Marriage at the Center

Every conversation is rooted in what marriage actually is: a covenant, a calling, an act of worship. You'll study the theology of loving your spouse as Christ loves the Church — not as an aspiration, but as a daily practice.

You'll discuss what Ephesians 5:25 demands. What sacrificial love looks like in the real moments of your marriage. And how living this draws both of you closer to God.

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Honest Assessment: Faults & Strengths

Jeremy identifies where your marriage is struggling and works with you to heal it. But equally important: he identifies your marriage's greatest strengths and finds ways to amplify them.

Couples who only focus on problems stay stuck in them. This builds on what's already holy in your marriage while addressing what needs to grow.

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Date Planning & Shared Life

Jeremy helps you build intentional time together — not just date night tips, but shared rhythms, activities, and experiences that actually deepen your connection and point your marriage toward God.

Most couples are in the same house but living separate lives. This builds a shared marriage — shared vision, shared joy, shared faith.

What Your Weekly Session Actually Looks Like

Every week is different. Every session is shaped by what's happening in your actual marriage. But the structure is consistent — and it's designed to produce real movement, not just good conversations.

The Wins

What Worked This Week

You share the moments your marriage shifted — where you led with love, served without keeping score, or made a choice that cost you something. These are built on, celebrated, and deepened.

The Hard Moments

Where You Got Stuck

Bring the actual conflicts, the days you failed, the moments you defaulted to defending yourself. Jeremy doesn't offer excuses. He offers biblical clarity: what does Scripture say about this exact moment?

Marriage & Spiritual Growth

Everything Is Connected

Your marriage struggles and your spiritual ones are the same conversation. Doubts, frustrations, questions about God's design — all of it comes to the table. All of it is answered through Scripture.

Moving Forward

One Practical Thing This Week

Based on your specific situation, Jeremy identifies one practical focus — doable in a busy week — that opens something real in your marriage. Not homework. An invitation to live your faith out.

Three Practices That Transform a Good Marriage Into a Holy One

These didn't come from a certification course. They came from years of living Ephesians 5:25 and building a marriage that actually reflects it.

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Marriage as an Act of Worship

Stop asking "How do I fix this?" and start asking "How do I offer this to God?" Every conflict, every act of service, every difficult conversation becomes an act of devotion. This single shift changes everything that follows.

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Love First. Always First.

Before defending yourself. Before explaining. Before trying to be right. Lead with love. Then ask: "Do you want me to listen, or help fix this?" This breaks the cycle of escalation every time — because it leads with love instead of defense.

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Consistent Small Choices

Not grand gestures. Consistent daily choices: a word of encouragement when it's undeserved, an act of service when you're tired, genuine presence when distraction is easier. These compound into something extraordinary over time.

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There Is No Funnel. There Is No Strategy. There Is Just This.

I didn't build a webinar series or hire a marketing team. I wrote about marriage because I couldn't stop thinking about it — what it cost me to learn to love Ashley well, and how different our life became when I did. People found those articles. They found the books. Some of them wrote to me. This grew from that.

If you're reading this, something in you recognized something here. That's worth paying attention to.

I work with a small number of couples at a time. Not because scarcity is a tactic — because genuine attention has limits, and I'd rather do this work well for a few than poorly for many. You will not be a client number. You will be someone I know.

Why I do this work

I Was a Good Husband. That Was the Problem.

I never raised my voice. I never checked out. I worked hard and came home. By any reasonable measure, I was a good husband. But I was measuring myself against the wrong standard. I was asking "Am I doing enough?" instead of "Am I loving her the way Christ loved the Church?" Those questions have completely different answers. The first one, I could always say yes. The second one, I couldn't look at directly.

The shift wasn't dramatic. It was a Tuesday. Ashley said something small and instead of explaining myself, I stopped and just listened. Really listened — not for my opening, not for where she was wrong, just for what she needed. Something changed in the room. I started doing that more. I started asking what she needed before telling her what I thought. I started saying "I love you" before I said anything else, no matter what we were walking into. Ephesians 5:25 stopped being a verse and started being a daily choice.

Ashley didn't know I was working on any of this. She wrote about it in the foreword to Intentional Love — that she just noticed one day she had stopped bracing for impact. She didn't know why. She just felt it. That's not a communication strategy. That's what happens when one spouse decides to stop measuring themselves against the wrong standard and starts measuring themselves against the right one.

"I didn't ask him to change. He just quietly, consistently began loving me better. And it transformed our marriage from the inside — the way only God can do something."
— Ashley, from the foreword to Intentional Love
For Husbands

You Work With Jeremy

You'll work through what Ephesians 5:25 actually demands of you — not as theology, but as practice. What does it look like in the argument you're about to have? In the moment you're too tired to serve? In the year you feel spiritually dry?

This is for the man who is done being a good husband and is ready to become a holy one. The difference is everything.

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For Wives

Your Wife Has Her Own Path With Ashley

If you're the wife reading this — maybe your husband sent you this page, maybe you found it yourself — Ashley is here for you specifically. Not as a program feature. As a woman who has lived inside a marriage being transformed and can speak to what that feels like from where you're standing.

You don't need your spouse's permission to have this conversation. You don't need to come together. Your path is your own. Ashley is available when you're ready — on your terms, in your time.

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The Goal Isn't a Better Marriage.
It's a Marriage That Glorifies God.

A marriage that glorifies God doesn't stay private. It becomes a testimony. Your kids watch it and understand what love actually is. Your friends notice something different about you. People around you start asking about your faith because they see it lived out in how you treat your spouse.

That's not an accident. That's a marriage that's been intentionally transformed by God — one week, one conversation, one act of worship at a time.

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Your children grow up with a living picture of what love costs — and what it produces

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Every difficult moment in your marriage becomes an act of worship instead of a wound

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People ask about your faith because your marriage is a testimony they can see

From the foreword to Intentional Love — written by Ashley

Before We Built Any of This, She Wrote This

"I used to wonder if the distance between us was just how marriage worked. What I didn't understand was that my husband was quietly learning to love me in a way I had never experienced — and that it would change everything."
— Ashley, co-author & Jeremy's wife
"He started saying 'I love you' before anything else — before defending himself, before explaining. Something in me stopped bracing for impact. I started trusting that whatever came next wouldn't hurt us."
— Ashley, from the foreword to Intentional Love
"I didn't ask him to change. He just quietly, consistently began loving me better. And it transformed our marriage from the inside — the way only God can do something."
— Ashley, co-author & Jeremy's wife
Jeremy and Ashley Augusta

Jeremy & Ashley Augusta

We Built This Marriage Without a Roadmap

Nobody handed me a blueprint for loving my wife the way Ephesians 5:25 calls a husband to love. I figured it out through years of trial, failure, repentance, and transformation — with Ashley beside me through every step of it.

Ashley co-authored our three books. She wrote the foreword to Intentional Love not as a marketing piece, but as her own testimony — because the transformation was real and she wanted other wives to know it was possible. What you read in our books is what we live. Not what we studied. What we built our marriage on, day by day.

When I work with a husband, Ashley is available to work with his wife — not because it's a program feature, but because your wife deserves the same honest conversation Ashley had: with someone who's been where she is and can speak to where she can go.

Eastern Orthodox Framework Eastern Catholic Framework Published Author Co-Author with Ashley Ephesians 5:25 Austin, TX

How This Works

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Free Discovery Call — 15 Minutes

We talk. You share where you are. I tell you honestly whether I think I can help. No sales pitch. No pressure. If this isn't the right fit, I'll tell you. Sessions available by Zoom, phone, or in person in Austin, TX.

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I Prepare Specifically for You

Before your first session, I send a short form so I can show up knowing your situation — your marriage, your faith, where you're stuck, what you're hoping for. You won't get a generic first session. You'll get someone who already knows what matters most to you before you walk in the door.

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Foundation Session

Your first full hour. We establish what marriage as worship actually means for your specific situation and begin building the framework your marriage will grow into. Individualized from the first session.

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Weekly Sessions + Email & Text Support

One hour each week — reviewing wins, working through struggles, building on what's holy in your marriage. Plus email and text support between sessions when real life happens and you need biblical clarity now, not next week.

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Month-to-Month — Always Your Choice

No contracts. No locked packages. You continue as long as the work is producing fruit. You stop whenever you're ready. The goal is transformation, not dependency.

This Is — and Isn't — For You

This Is For You If…

  • You want a marriage that glorifies God, not just a stable one
  • You're willing to be the one who changes first
  • You take Ephesians 5:25 seriously — or want to
  • Your faith is the foundation, not the afterthought
  • You want your marriage to be a testimony that points people to God
  • You want real accountability — someone who actually checks in
  • You're ready to show up fully, not just when it's easy

This Isn't For You If…

  • Your marriage is fine and you want it to stay fine — I'm not your person. This is for men who want extraordinary.
  • You're looking for someone to fix your spouse
  • You want validation for staying exactly as you are
  • You need licensed clinical therapy — if so, please get it
  • You want a program — not a relationship with a mentor
  • Your faith is private and you'd prefer to keep it out of this
  • You're hoping to find out whose fault it is
30 Day Guarantee

Show Up Fully. See Real Growth.
Or Pay Nothing.

By day 30, if you've shown up to every session and done the work, you will point to real, visible growth in how you're loving your spouse, and how you love God. That's not hope. That's what happens. If somehow you don't see it — no change, no shift, nothing tangible — I refund you completely. This guarantee exists because I know what commitment to Ephesians 5:25 actually produces.

Simple. Accessible. Month-to-Month.

Access to serious, biblically-grounded marriage mentorship shouldn't require a premium income. This is built to reach the couples God sends.

Per session · Cancel anytime
$100
~$400 / month · No contracts
Compare: Marriage counseling $200–400/session · Couples retreats $2,000–5,000 · Self-help books with no accountability. This is $100/session with a 30-day money-back guarantee and someone who walks with you every step.
  • Weekly 60-minute session (Zoom, phone, or in-person in Austin)
  • Email & text support between sessions
  • Weekly practical focus tailored to your specific marriage
  • Deep dive into the theology of marriage — Ephesians 5:25 lived out
  • Honest assessment of your faults and your strengths — both addressed
  • Date planning & shared life guidance
  • All five published books as your reading foundation
  • Separate mentorship option for your wife with Ashley
  • 30-day money-back guarantee on your first month
  • Month-to-month — stop anytime
Schedule Your Free Discovery Call Discovery call is free. No commitment. If we're not the right fit, I'll tell you honestly.

Before You Reach Out

No. Most people start alone. You don't need to convince your spouse, prepare them, or wait until you're both ready. Begin where you are. Ashley's path is always available to your spouse separately — but it is always their choice and always on their timeline. Transformation in a marriage often starts with one person deciding to go first.
No. I'm a husband who figured out how to love his wife the way Ephesians 5:25 demands, and then wrote five books about it. If you need a licensed therapist, please go get one — I'll tell you that honestly on our discovery call if I think it's true. Mentorship and therapy are not the same thing, and they're not mutually exclusive. This is one, not the other.
No — and most of the people I work with aren't in crisis. They're in a marriage that functions and have finally admitted that functioning isn't what they signed up for. If your marriage is struggling, this will help. But the framework exists for any Christian who is ready to stop treating Ephesians 5:25 as inspiration and start treating it as instruction.
No. The Eastern Christian tradition gives this work its theological depth — the understanding of marriage as a sacramental covenant, the Patristic wisdom, the lived spirituality. But if you love Christ and take Scripture seriously, the tradition is a gift to you, not a gate. I've worked with Protestants, Roman Catholics, and non-denominational Christians. What matters is whether you want to take Ephesians 5:25 seriously. That's the only qualification.
By day 30, if you've shown up to every session and done the work, you will point to real, visible growth in how you're loving your spouse and how you love God. That's not hope — that's what happens. If somehow you don't see it — no change, no shift, nothing tangible — I refund you completely. This guarantee exists because I know what commitment to Ephesians 5:25 actually produces.
Most Christian coaching gives you a program and hopes you follow through. This gives you a person — someone who knows your specific marriage, checks in between sessions, tailors everything to where you actually are, and filters every conversation through Scripture instead of psychology. The difference is not methodology. The difference is that I'm walking with you, not handing you a workbook. And the goal is not a better marriage. The goal is a holy one. The better marriage is the byproduct.
Austin, TX

Based in Austin? We Can Meet in Person.

All sessions are available by Zoom or phone — but if you're in the Austin, Texas area, we can meet face to face. There's something different about doing this work in the same room. If that matters to you, mention it when you schedule your discovery call.

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Fifteen minutes. You tell me where you are. I tell you honestly whether I can help. No pitch. No pressure. If it's not the right fit, I'll tell you — and I'll tell you why. If it is, this could be the most significant conversation your marriage has ever had.

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