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When couples are having trouble with their relationships, professional counseling usually isn't the first course of action. According to William Doherty of the University of Minnesota's Marriage and Family Therapy program, we reach out to a trusted group of friends and family first.

It's this group that Doherty is targeting with the new program 

. Doherty wants to give these groups a little training so they can better help those in need. 

His "dream is to make Marital First Responders training so universal that every married couple will have someone in their natural network who knows how to support them and, when appropriate, steer them to professional help," according to the program's site.

Doherty joins The Daily Circuit to talk about how he got the idea and what he plans to teach through the program.

A new training program, developed at the University of Minnesota, will help create a network of people that can help married couples when they hit road bumps.

Creating a network of 'Marital First Responders'

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