Saving Grace Counseling embraces a biblical approach to helping couples experience the transforming power of love. When understood through the lens of Scripture, love possesses the ability to renew and strengthen marriages. Our philosophy is to guide couples—especially those facing crisis—to both learn and practice the fundamentals of God’s love. When applied, this love can heal past hurts, mend wounds, and restore unity to marriages in need of reconciliation.
We offer a uniquely effective approach to couples counseling through Couples Intensives—extended sessions led by the husband-and-wife team, Holly and Joe Barruso. As a counseling duo, they bring not only extensive professional experience but also a powerful testimony of God’s healing in their own marriage. After 12 years together, it seemed inevitable their marriage would end in divorce, having faced challenges such as unemployment, multiple relocations, financial strain, the loss of two parents and a pregnancy, infidelity, and abuse. Exhausted and hopeless, they retained attorneys and filed for divorce. Yet, God intervened—bringing not just change, but true transformation after years of resistance on both sides. Following two years of estrangement, they called off the divorce and reconciled. That was 15 years ago. Today, they enjoy the marriage they once dreamed of but didn’t know how to achieve. As counselors and devoted believers, Holly and Joe now share a mission: to help married couples experience and practice God’s love, so they too may witness its healing power transform and renew their marriage just as it did theirs.
At SGC, we firmly believe that no marriage is beyond God’s ability to restore, regardless of its challenges. We are deeply committed to the healing power of love.