I will be shocked if any of us have not been affected either directly or indirectly by an affair. I know that my friends whose parents have had affairs have deeply affected their families to the point where some...
I developed the H.E.A.R.T. model —Healing Emotional/Affective Responses to Trauma —to help us ask for directions. While it is normal to experience some dissociation from our past selves, early childhood physical and sexual trauma seriously exacerbates this problem. The...
“The crisis of fatherhood that we are experiencing today is a basic aspect of the crisis that threatens mankind as a whole” (Ratzinger). This threat strikes when fathers are seen only as biological accidents with no claims, or as...
As our culture tends away from its Judeo-Christian roots and towards a modernistic, “post-Christianity” direction, our role as Catholic psychologists, therapists, counselors, etc., takes on an even greater importance. In my field of addictions and substance use, I daily...
On behalf of the members of the Catholic Psychotherapy Association (CPA), we would like to welcome you to our website. The CPA was founded ten years ago by a group of therapists who envisioned a national association that would provide support to mental health professionals who desired to practice their profession in a way that is consistent with their Catholic faith.
