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Accompanying Couples Through Intimacy, Suffering, and Self-Gift

Explore the intimate questions married couples actually ask and learn how to answer with competence, compassion, and the Catholic understanding of sexuality as self-gift.

Accompanying Men: Principles of Effective Spiritual Direction

Most men don't seek spiritual direction; many who try it once never return. Fr John Hopkins LC has accompanied hundreds of men across decades of pastoral work.

Anxiety 101

A focused deep-dive on a single topic. Ideal for a one-off cohort or live session companion.

Beautiful and Holy — Preparing Couples for the Wedding Night

Marriage preparation often leaves difficult questions about intimacy unanswered. This course equips priests, spiritual directors, and counselors with practical wisdom, clinical insight, and Catholic teaching through an open conversation on preparing couples for married love.

Becoming the Gift: Vocation, Eros, and the Complementarity of the States of Life

Vocation as self-gift: eros redeemed, marriage and celibacy as one spousal love, and the body's language—free, total, faithful, fruitful.

Beneath the Symptom: A Catholic Christian Approach to Eating Disorders

Learn to recognize, assess, and respond to eating disorders often hidden beneath addiction, trauma, or depression, using clinical insight and the Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the Person.

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.

Beyond Symptom Management: A Catholic Christian Approach to Anxiety

Go beyond symptom reduction. Discover a Catholic whole-person approach to anxiety that integrates evidence-based methods with deeper care.

Client onboarding

A short orientation series for new clients. What to expect, how to engage, and the first wins.

Counselling 101

The building blocks of counselling Psychology

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

Free to Become: How Our Choices Shape the Soul

Guided by St. Thomas Aquinas, learn to tell the object of an act from its intention and its circumstances, and the hard, freeing line between judging an action and judging a person.

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.

Fully Alive: The Human Person and the Call to Flourish

Discover what it means to truly flourish through six formation sessions for Regnum Christi lay members. Grounded in the CCMMP, RC spirituality, and Church teaching, this course explores vocation, grace, and the call to love every person as a gift, with Christ at the center.

Goals That Move the Group: Setting Direction Across Group Therapy Models

Goals matter in every group, but they are not set the same way in every group. Unlike the direct-goal setting of psychoeducational groups, in a psychodynamic process group they emerge through honest expression, linking, and shared themes.

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 Do I Know It’s God? Recognizing the Lord’s Voice in Prayer and Daily Life

Stop waiting for a clear feeling. Learn to recognize God’s voice the way you recognize a friend’s — through a relationship you actually live.

How to Pray

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Listening Where God Is Already at Work: Spiritual Direction and the Human Sciences

You do not need the perfect thing to say. You need to learn to listen. In this single-session course, Fr. Robert Presutti of Divine Mercy University shows how the best spiritual directors get out of the way so a person can hear God for themselves.

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

Meeting Souls Where They Are: The Art of Spiritual Direction

A candid 20-year faith journey reveals one essential skill in spiritual direction: meeting people where they are. Learn how listening, relationship, and discernment can guide spiritual growth at the person’s own pace—grounded in the wisdom of spiritual masters and whole-person care.

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.

More Than a Mirror: Accompanying Women Beyond Body Image

She says it's about her weight. It almost never is. Discover a whole-person way to hear what a woman is really asking — Will I be seen? Will I be loved?

More Than the Wound: A Catholic Christian Approach to Treating Trauma

Trauma does real damage. It does not get the last word. In this course, DMU faculty show us how to treat the wound without reducing the person to it.

Pain Into Gain: Positive Psychology, Virtue, and the Flourishing Person

Dr. Paul Vitz shows how Seligman's positive psychology reshaped the model of the person—from one pushed by the past to one drawn forward by a chosen future. Grounded in DMU's Catholic Christian Meta-Model, it equips counselors to move clients from "what was done to me?" to "who am I becoming?"

Part of the Cure: How to Help Someone You Love Who Has PTSD

Loving someone with PTSD can leave you feeling helpless. You’re not. Experts explain what PTSD really is and what you can do to help. You are part of the cure.

Peace in the Storm: A Catholic, Whole-Person Approach to Managing Everyday Stress

You already know the drill. Stress builds, so you push it down, scroll your phone, raid the fridge, and hope it passes. It never quite does.

Practicing Virtue: Helping Clients Turn Insight Into Lasting Change

Your client understands the problem. They still can’t change. Here’s why — and what to do. Virtue is a performing art. Most therapy stops at the talking. Here is a practical, faith-integrated way to coach clients to practice the virtues that change them.

Presence Over Platitudes: Human Relating Skills for Accompanying Suffering

A grieving father whose child may not survive asks his spiritual director where God is. Watch a competent, well-meaning director lose him, moment by moment, and learn what genuine accompaniment would have looked like.

Removing the Boulders: Spiritual Direction and Catholic Psychology in Partnership

When spiritual direction isn't enough: a director and psychologist explain how they collaborate—recognizing referral signs, ethical boundaries, and shared goals

Rights Before the Constitution: The Law That Comes First

Where do our rights really come from? In two short lessons, legal scholar Hadley Arkes recovers the moral law that stands before the Constitution — and makes freedom make sense.

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.

Testing Course-Builder w Client Onboarding

A short orientation series for new clients. What to expect, how to engage, and the first wins.

Testing: Love yourself

This would help you learn how to keep your glass full.

Testing: Mind and Fitness

Testing: everyday life

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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 Irreplaceable Person: Imago Dei and Clinical Psychology

Most of us assume our clients have inherent worth, but fewer could say what that worth actually rests on. A dignity based on how well someone is functioning is a dignity that fails the people who need it most. Three DMU faculty offer a deeper understanding.

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 Presence That Heals: Human Relating Skills for Spiritual Direction

What makes a difference in spiritual direction? More than technique—it’s you. Explore how presence, warmth, reverence, deep listening, and authentic relationship become the most powerful tools for accompanying others toward healing, growth, and holiness.

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.

The Test Is Not an X-Ray: Reading the Person, Not Just the Profile

Reading the person, not just the profile — a Catholic-Christian approach to personality assessment feedback

The Threshold of Faith: Why Believing in God Changes Everything

Why is it so hard to believe, even for people who want to? Fr. Benedict Groeschel — Franciscan friar and trained psychologist — answers that the real obstacle to faith was never a shortage of evidence but a proud and self-sufficient spirit.

The Whole Person in the Group — Facilitation Through the Catholic Christian Meta-Model

A group is more than a room where people work on their problems. The Catholic Christian Meta-Model reframes group work as the formation of the whole person — through vocation, virtue, self-giving, and shared suffering — and asks much of the leader who bears the group’s burden.

The Wound No One Names: Post-Abortion Healing and the Work of Project Rachel

A one-lesson course on Catholic post-abortion healing through Project Rachel. Learn how sin, grief, and trauma shape recovery, why spiritual and psychological care belong together, and how counselors can accompany those carrying hidden wounds with compassion, listening, and hope.

Three Voices, One Relationship: Discerning God, the Enemy, and the World

Was that God — or was that just me? It's the question every directee eventually asks, and that can leave even seasoned directors reaching for an answer quickly.

Too Busy for God: Spiritual Direction for High-Achieving Men

He has built the career, provided for his family, and won at nearly everything he set his mind to. So when you suggest spiritual direction, he shrugs. No time. Not important. What do you say?

Tracing the Hand of God: Spiritual Life Mapping with St. Paul

A spiritual life map traces God's hidden guidance through your past. Learn the practice through Paul's own journey—and start mapping yours.

Two Diagnoses, One Person: Treating Co-occurring Disorders

A whole-person course that teaches counselors how to diagnose and plan for clients whose mental health and substance use disorders occur together, without losing sight of the person underneath the two diagnoses.

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 Clients Can’t Forgive Themselves: Guilt, Mercy, and the Path to Self-Acceptance

You can prove a client’s guilt is out of proportion to what happened, and it changes nothing. This short course shows you why — and how to accompany people whose felt guilt has outrun their real responsibility.

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

When God Feels Absent: The Relational Art of Accompanying Spiritual Dryness

The person across from you says they think they’re losing their faith. What do you do? This course is for those who accompany people through religious and spiritual struggle.

When Words Aren’t Enough: Creative Therapies for Trauma Counseling

When trauma limits cognition, traditional talk therapy may stall. Explore creative, experiential interventions—including sand tray, projective objects, and expressive art—to support healing while honoring safety, agency, dignity, and the whole person through a Catholic Christian model.

When a Client Says "I'm Struggling": A Whole-Person Approach to Same-Sex Attraction

The job to be done here is not "learn about same-sex attraction." It is closer to: "Help me not freeze or fumble when this comes up, and give me a way to respond that respects the person, my ethics, and my faith at the same time."

When the Ground Gives Way: Trauma Care and Resilience After Disaster

When disaster strikes, the people caught in it do not need an expert. They need someone who shows up. In this one-hour lesson, Dr. Ben Keyes of Divine Mercy University explains how to steady, support, and help survivors recover, and why your presence may be the most protective thing you can offer.

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.

Worth Their Time: Accompanying Busy Men Toward Real Change

Every busy man asks: is spiritual direction worth my time? Fr. John Hopkins, LC, turns decades of accompanying men into a usable skill—opening with health, not sin; challenge through questions, not lectures; real accountability. Grounded in DMU's CCMMP and the classic tradition of direction.

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 Are Mine: Accompanying Same-Sex Attraction with Truth and Mercy

A short formation course on accompanying people who experience same-sex attraction with compassion, truth, and respect. Grounded in Catholic teaching, Sacred Stories, and the Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the Person, it equips helping professionals to uphold both Church teaching and human dignity

You Don’t Have to Wait Until It’s Bad Enough: Recognizing When to Seek Therapy

You Don’t Have to Wait Until It’s Bad Enough. Four signs it’s time to see a therapist — and the one belief that keeps people from going.

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 Emotions Are Not the Enemy: A Catholic Christian Vision of Living Out Emotions

The capacity to feel is good, given by God, and your emotions can grow toward virtue. The work isn’t to stop feeling. It’s to learn how to live it out.

Your Personal Journey Matters: The Formed Self as an Instrument of Healing in Group Therapy

You were taught to keep your own story out of the room. Dr. Scrofani spent fifty years proving the opposite. Tracing his path from a Little Italy tenement to a career of more than 120 therapy groups, he shows why he came to believe that the curative factors of group therapy are the classical virtues

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.

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