Marriage Mentoring

We are Gary and Alberta Pizzitola. Our life’s purpose is to assist Catholic couples in learning and practicing the FIVE PRIORITIES THAT HELP MARRIAGES GROW IN LOVE, HAPPINESS, and HOLINESS. We are dedicated to growing strong, healthy, Catholic marriages and raising strong, healthy, Catholic children.

God has blessed Alberta and me with forty years of marriage, two children, and four grandchildren. As a licensed psychologist, marriage and family therapist with a Ph.D., I have been in private practice with over thirty-five years of professional experience in every aspect of married life, working extensively with children, adolescents, and adults. Alberta has ministered to women spiritually who have difficult marriages and have helped their marriages heal through the FIVE PRIORITIES and the CHURCH’S SACRAMENTAL GRACE. Together, we have combined our experience and knowledge in a shared ministry preparing couples for their HOLY SACRAMENTAL MARRIAGE for over a decade in the diocese of Phoenix.

The point to a HEALTHY, HAPPY, HOLY, MARRIAGE is not to be married fifty years and dislike each other or to have “put up” with each other or to have just settled because you feel stuck. Rather, the goal in HOLY MARRIAGE is to be married fifty or sixty years and be more in love with each other than on your wedding day.

We are here to serve you in your HOLY, CATHOLIC, SACRAMENTAL, MARRIAGE. The word “holy” means to be set apart. Jesus said those who follow Him are “to be in the world, not of the world”. He was saying we are to live differently: set apart from those around us by the choices we make and the way we live. Catholics today are failing at marriage at the same rate as pagan, secular America because they have forgotten they are not to be “of the world.” According to various statistics, the divorce rate has climbed to sixty-eight percent. Would you get on an airplane with a thirty percent chance of arriving at the gate safely? Probably not. We, as married Catholics, seem to have forgotten that our marriages are Holy Sacraments. We are here to serve you and your spouse to grow in love and holiness, allowing God’s sacramental grace to help you in every way.

Alberta and I came from intact, Catholic, hardworking families. Even though we had seen married love work and both entered the marriage with similar values and expectations, we found marriage to be very difficult. My degrees in Psychology and training in marriage therapies lacked Catholic truth and we did not understand the power of prayer and sacramental grace. We found ourselves growing apart. Upon implementing Catholic truth, continuous prayer and being open to sacramental grace, our marriage exploded in new found love. This is at the root of Marriage Mentoring, which we can help you apply to your marriage.