Sep 8, 2026 | Catholic Psychology
Catholic therapy and Catholic mentorship are two different ways of getting faith-integrated mental health support. Therapy is licensed psychotherapy: the treatment of diagnosable mental health conditions by a clinician, usually in weekly 45-minute sessions. Mentorship...
Sep 1, 2026 | Catholic Psychology
There are four sentences I heard constantly in my years practicing therapy. “There’s so much to say, where do I even start?” “I forgot what I wanted to tell you. It was something really important, but now I forgot it.” “I wish you...
Aug 26, 2026 | Catholic Psychology, Featured Content, Personality Disorders, Popular, Trust
When most people picture someone struggling with OCD, they picture a very particular kind of suffering. Counting steps. Checking locks. Washing hands until they crack. For some people, this is their reality, and they bear a tremendous cross. While most of us will...
Aug 25, 2026 | Catholic Psychology
Catholics looking for mental health support have four main options: a licensed Catholic therapist, professional Catholic mentorship (accompaniment), spiritual direction, and, for emergencies, crisis care. Most people don’t need all four. Most people do need to...
Aug 18, 2026 | Catholic Psychology, Featured Content, Personality Disorders, Popular, Trust
Simon of Cyrene is one of those fascinating Gospel figures about whom we know very little. He shows up right at the end of Jesus’ life, wandering into a chaotic scene like a character that got lost in the wrong act of a play. In fact, he happens upon the most painful...
Aug 18, 2026 | Catholic Psychology
Catholic psychology is the practice of psychological science grounded in the Catholic understanding of the human person. It takes everything legitimate that modern psychology has discovered about the mind, the brain, trauma, and relationships, and orders it according...
Aug 13, 2026 | Catholic Psychology, Featured Content, Parenting, Personality Disorders, Popular
My personal encounter with OCD and scrupulosity has come through some of the closest relationships in my life. I have watched people I love suffer in ways that are difficult to adequately describe. Scrupulosity can feel like torture—an agony that those of us without...
Aug 11, 2026 | Catholic Psychology
If you’ve been praying about your anxiety for years and it hasn’t lifted, the problem is not that your faith is weak. I want to say that before anything else, because somewhere along the way a lot of Catholics absorbed the idea that mental suffering is a...
Aug 5, 2026 | Catholic Psychology, Faith, Featured Content, Popular
Spider-Man has been rebooted three times in a single generation. New actors, new timelines, new universes, and now, with Brand New Day, a new beginning that is not truly a beginning. By every rule of audience fatigue we should be finished with this character. And yet...
Aug 4, 2026 | Catholic Psychology, Faith, Featured Content, Healing, Personality Disorders, Popular, Trust
Doubting Thomas: the disciple we’re all familiar with, having said he would not believe Christ had risen unless he himself could see and touch the nail marks in His hands and His wounded side (John 20). The Chosen, in a clever and creative way, depicts Thomas as...
Jul 29, 2026 | Catholic Psychology, Featured Content, Healing, Popular
So, what do you actually do all day? I have a friend who knows I am a licensed therapist. But he has no idea what I do. I’d imagine he has some image in his head of a therapist wearing a long robe and holding a wizard’s staff. He seems to connect...
Jul 22, 2026 | Catholic Psychology, Dealing with loss, Faith, Featured Content, Healing, Popular, Prayer, Relationships, St. Joseph
by Dr. Gerard McNicholas A few months back I sat down with Dr. Greg Bottaro on the Being Human podcast for an episode called “Stop Preventing the Saints From Doing Their Job.” The premise was simple but, I think, quietly radical: the saints are not statues to admire...
Jul 20, 2026 | Catholic Psychology, Featured Content, Healing, Popular, Positive Psychology
The psychology of desire is complicated. It can be that emotion that drives us toward the most noble of human experiences. And yet it can also arrive uninvited. It can run amiss. Desire doesn’t always align with the person we are trying to become or honor our...
Jul 1, 2026 | Catholic Psychology, Communication, Faith, Featured Content, Healing, Human Dignity, Popular
When I mentor others, clients commonly express concern that our conversation might just amount to venting or badmouthing others in their lives. I hear things like, “Yeah, I was hurt, but I don’t want to throw this person under the bus.” In other words, there is often...
Jun 24, 2026 | Catholic Psychology, Faith, Featured Content, Healing, Popular, Prayer
The story goes that I first asked Jesus into my heart around three or four years old, after punching my friend Katie. Apparently, I felt remorseful; my mom asked me if I wanted to ask Jesus to forgive me, and I agreed. I’m sure that wasn’t the first I...
Jun 17, 2026 | Catholic Psychology, Featured Content, Healing, Popular, Prayer
Every June, the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart arrives and I often find myself feeling unprepared. There is something intriguing about this mystery, but also something I can find hard to grasp. What does the Heart of Jesus have to teach us, especially about being...
May 6, 2026 | Catholic Psychology, Faith, Featured Content, Healing, Prayer
It may sound strange, but sometimes disconnection from God is not about a lack of faith. At different times in my own faith journey, I have found myself doing all the right “Catholic things” while still feeling disconnected from God. I would go to Mass,...
Apr 29, 2026 | Catholic Psychology, Featured Content, Healing
It doesn’t matter how many people you’re surrounded by. If you are never vulnerable, you will still feel alone. This instinct to hide, to avoid vulnerability, is very human. The first human beings did it, and we continue to do it today. But this instinct, however easy...
