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Accompanying Men: Principles of Effective Spiritual Direction

Most men do not seek spiritual direction and many who try it once never return. Fr. John Hopkins has accompanied hundreds of men across decades of pastoral work

Benefits of the CCMMP

Clinical training gives you partial lenses: one for the inner life, another for behavior, the family, the brain. Each is true, but none is the whole person.

Drawn into Friendship: Catholic Prayer and Spiritual Growth

A 5-lesson course on Catholic prayer, exploring it as a relationship with God, with guidance on mental prayer, contemplation, and liturgical life.

FOCUS - Foundations for Discipleship

Foundations for Discipleship is a tool you use to form and accompany others on their journey as a Christian disciple

Fight Club Emmaus

From Hatred to Wholeness: A Catholic Psychological Guide to Forgiveness and Healing

Why is forgiveness hard? This 3-lesson course explores the roots of hatred, the choice to forgive, and pastoral approaches to healing and self-worth.

Grace Through Weakness: Psychological Struggle and Spiritual Transformation in the Lives of the Saints

Fr. Benedict Groeschel, CFR — psychologist and Franciscan friar — takes you inside the lives of saints who struggled psychologically and grew spiritually.

Guarding the Gift: Pornography, Gender Differences, and the Restoration of Marital Intimacy

What drives pornography use — really? This course brings together clinical psychologists and spiritual directors to examine the emotional and relational roots.

Heart Speaks to Heart: A Catholic Introduction to Mental Prayer

Most of us were taught to pray by learning prayers. But there is a form of prayer the Church has treasured for centuries that goes deeper.

How to Pray

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Made Male and Female: Gender, Development, and the Catholic Vision of Human Wholeness

This course explores the distinction between biological sex and the development of gendered personality, the role of peer belonging and family structure in sexual identity formation, and a pastoral and clinical framework for accompanying individuals presenting questions of sexual identity.

Made for Love: An Introduction to John Paul II's Theology of the Body for Helping Professionals

The Theology of the Body is not primarily a document about marriage. It is a comprehensive answer to the two questions every human being is already asking: Who

More Than Qualified: Women in Leadership through the Lens of Catholic Psychology

Have you ever been invited into a leadership role and wondered: Why me? I'm not qualified for this. You are not alone — and you are almost certainly wrong.

Seeing the Whole Person: The Eleven Premises of the Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the Person

It's Christian philosophical roots, and its practical application for mental health professionals working with both believing and non-believing clients.

Steady Presence: Calm, Limits, and Connection in Child-Centered Play Therapy

Grounded in the child-centered play therapy tradition and in a Catholic Christian understanding of the child as a free, relational person made for growth, this course gives you something you can carry into the very next session.

The Examined Leader: Character, Trust, and Christian Anthropology at Work

Forty years. Remarkable results. One Catholic CEO's conversation on character, trust, and what Christian anthropology actually looks like at work.

The Intelligent Heart: Emotional Intelligence, Virtue, and Healing Presence

Learn emotional intelligence through neuroscience and virtue: understand triggers, regulate responses, and build a grounded, healing presence for others.

The Living Word: Scripture, Revelation, and the Human Person

Dr. William E. May explains the Catholic biblical canon and shows how divine revelation in Christ reveals God, humanity, freedom, and truth.

The Soul of Psychology: Faith, Reason, and the Philosophy of the Person

Drawing on a classic talk by Fr. Benedict Groeschel, C.F.R., you'll trace the difference between treating the mind as a neutral measuring instrument and recognizing the living person-

The Soul’s Journey: Moral Conversion and the Three Stages of Spiritual Growth

Why does spiritual growth stall in devoted believers? Fr. Benedict Groeschel says it often hinges on an unnamed threshold: moral conversion.

What Your Child Isn't Saying: Recognizing Childhood Anxiety, Bullying, and Digital Risk — A Clinical and Catholic Formation Course

Clinical Indicators of Childhood Anxiety, Bullying, and Digital Risk — through a Catholic anthropological lens

When Children Grieve: Helping Kids and Families Through the Death of a Loved One

When someone dies, children take in far more than the adults around them realize, and they grieve in ways that look nothing like adult grief.

When Fear Becomes Faith: Fr. Groeschel on Childhood Wounds, Trust, and Prophetic Living

"What if your difficulty trusting God began long before you understood what trust was?" -Fr. Benedict Groeschel

Why Ethics Depends on a True Account of the Human Person

Ethics in psychotherapy is often reduced to resolving dilemmas and navigating rule systems. Instead, ethics begins with the nature of the human person.

Wounded but not Lost: The Psychological Effects of Original Sin and the Healing Power of Christ

The deepest explanation of human psychological struggle is not found in neuroscience or developmental models alone. It is found in the truth of original sin.

You Shall Not Be Overcome: Spiritual Vanity, Sacred Darkness, and the Peace That Persists

Why does prayer go dry? Fr. Groeschel reveals the hidden danger in spiritual progress — and the ancient promise that will carry you through.

Your Wound Is Not Your Obstacle: St. Thérèse on Grace, Holiness, and the Little Way

Many of us carry the quiet assumption that we need to heal — emotionally, psychologically, spiritually — before we can truly give, truly pray, truly grow.