A fuller understanding of your own cycle.
Evidence-based Marquette Method instruction from Christy Garbus, FNP-C: online courses for engaged couples, regular cycles, and postpartum.
- 12+ Years in nursing
- >400 Couples taught
- 98% Method Effectiveness
What is NFP?
A short introduction to NFP from Christy
The instructor
Faith, medicine, and a clear path through your cycle.
My name is Christy Garbus and I offer Natural Family Planning education remotely through online video conferencing & self-paced options. I have been a nurse since 2014, earned my Master's in Nursing Education in 2019, and my Family Nurse Practitioner license in 2025. I find great joy in teaching NFP and combining my love for education with my desire to integrate faith and medicine.
My husband and I have practiced NFP from the start of our marriage. We used the Creighton method, and, after our first child, transitioned to the Marquette Method, which we have used both to achieve and to avoid pregnancy.
- FNP-C
- Family Nurse Practitioner, WGU, 2025
- MSN
- Master's in Nursing Education, Regis University, 2019
- Registered Nurse
- Practicing since 2014
What we can do together
Where are you right now?
Choose the one that sounds most like you, and we'll suggest the best place to begin.
Start with the self-paced course for regular cycles
Learn to read your own cycle with the Marquette Method, online and at your own pace, with urinary hormone monitoring and simple daily charting.
About Self-Paced Course: Regular Cycles →The Marriage Prep Group Course
An Archdiocese-approved, three-month course for engaged couples: two live online group lectures and a private chart review for the two of you.
About Marriage Prep Group Course →The self-paced course, with a chart review
The Marquette Method identifies your fertile window with daily hormone readings, so you can time conception with confidence. Send a note and Christy will help you choose.
About Self-Paced Course: Regular Cycles →The self-paced postpartum course
Special Marquette protocols for postpartum and breastfeeding help identify ovulation before your period returns, paced to your season of life.
About Self-Paced Course: Postpartum →“Christy's Marquette Method course was great! I feel so much more knowledgeable and empowered about how my cycle works with spacing children after talking with Christy and seeing her presentation. She was professional yet personal and warm. She is so smart and shares her knowledge well and you understand exactly what she is teaching you. She answered all our questions very well and explained things so that both me and my non-medical background husband could understand the concepts. I would highly recommend learning about the Marquette Method from Christy!”
Not sure where to start? Let's talk.
Send a note with where you are and what you are hoping for, and Christy will point you to the right course or cohort.
- Every course is taught online
- Partners welcome in every session (Required for marriage preparation)
- Courses are HSA/FSA eligible
New dates are posted here as soon as they are set. Send a note and we'll let you know when the next one opens.
Reading & resources
The first articles are on their way. In the meantime, the resources page has free guides and a webinar recording.