Bring trained presence to every community you serve, without replacing any of them.

Failure Is Not an Option: Leadership, Decision-Making & Virtue Under Pressure

Leadership is what your character does when control runs out.

An asynchronous, six-lesson formation course that uses six scenes from the film Apollo 13 (1995) — set beside the real April 1970 mission — as a case study in how good decisions get made and good character is revealed when everything is on the line.

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. In this 15-minute interview-based lesson, Dr. Tammy Tenaglia, Ph.D., shares what she discovered when she joined a Catholic foundation board surrounded by corporate executives: her distinctiveness was the point. Her psychological expertise was exactly what the room needed. Drawing on Catholic anthropology, the science of impostor syndrome, and the spiritual practice of daily self-examination, this lesson equips Catholic women to step into leadership from a place of clarity, confidence, and conviction.

The First Person You Lead: Self-Awareness, Servant Leadership, and the Use of Self in the Helping Professions

The best leaders are not the ones with the most impressive résumé. They are the ones who can see themselves clearly.

Treating the Whole Person — How the Catholic Christian Meta-Model Transforms Clinical Care

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.

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

The Dignity Beneath the Diagnosis: Understanding Clients Through the Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the Person

Every counselor carries a picture of the human person into the room, whether they name it or not. In one hour, this faith-integrated course helps you make it explicit and whole — so you can see a client’s dignity beneath the diagnosis.

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

What changes in a group when you see the whole person.

A group is more than a room where people work on their problems. In this panel, Dr. Harvey Payne, William Nordling, Gabriel Dy-Liacco, and Su Li Lee show how the Catholic Christian Meta-Model reframes group work as the formation of the whole person — through vocation, virtue, self-giving, and shared suffering — and what it asks of the leader who bears the group’s burden.

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

How direction actually emerges in process and psychoeducational groups.

Goals matter in every group, but they are not set the same way in every group. In this conversation, Prof. Gabriel Dy-Liacco shows Dr. Harvey Payne how direction emerges in a psychodynamic process group — through honest expression, linking, and shared themes — and how that differs from the direct goal-setting of a psychoeducational group. You will leave able to read a group’s design and set direction accordingly.

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

Whether you sit with grieving families professionally or you are simply the adult a child turns to, this course gives you what to say and what to do.

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.

Two Diagnoses, One Person: Treating Co-occurring Disorders

Two diagnoses. One person. One hour.

Most clients don’t arrive with one clean diagnosis. Dr. Kathie Erwin, a licensed counselor who has practiced and taught for nearly twenty years, walks you through what actually happens when two diagnoses live in one person: how to use the DSM-5 to aim, why trauma and culture and a client’s spiritual strengths belong in the plan from day one, and how a whole-person approach turns five separate problem lists into one coherent plan.

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

A Catholic Clinical and Pastoral Perspective

What drives pornography use — really? This 1-hour NBCC CE course brings together clinical psychologists and spiritual directors to examine the emotional and relational roots of pornography use, with close attention to how those roots look different in men and women. Grounded in Catholic anthropology and current clinical practice, Guarding the Gift gives counselors and pastoral ministers a framework for accompanying individuals and couples with compassion, precision, and hope.

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

Recognizing Childhood Anxiety, Bullying, and Digital Risk — A Clinical and Catholic Formation Course

Ian Masson, LPC, NCC, RPT, Director of the IPS Center at Divine Mercy University, presents clinical warning signs of childhood anxiety across developmental stages — including bullying, digital safety risks, and the role of family relationship and faith community as protective factors.