About The Catholic Counseling Institute's Online Courses

If you've ever wondered, "Was that thought a sin?" or found yourself confessing the same thing over and over, you're not alone—and you're not broken.
Freedom from Scrupulosity & Intrusive Thoughts is a Catholic psychology course designed to help you understand what's really happening in your mind and soul—and how to find peace again.
Through compassionate, research-backed teaching, you'll learn the difference between sin and symptoms, how to rewire your anxious brain, and how to trust God without chasing certainty.
This course blends theology, neuroscience, and clinical tools to help you walk in confidence, freedom, and deeper relationship with God.

The 30-Day Catholic Anxiety Reset is a neuroscience-informed, faith-rooted course designed to help calm anxiety at the level of the nervous system. Through short daily practices, you’ll learn why anxiety shows up physically and how to restore safety in your body. Catholic theology and modern psychology are woven together in a way that feels reverent, practical, and relieving. This course offers a gentle, structured path toward clarity, peace, and grounded trust in God.

The Survival Mode Homemaking Course is a practical, compassionate guide for Catholic women who feel overwhelmed by the demands of home life, especially during seasons of stress, chronic illness, burnout, or grief. This course offers simple, psychologically sound systems and faith-rooted encouragement to help you maintain peace, order, and dignity in your home—even when you're running on empty. With short, manageable lessons and printable tools, you'll learn how to prioritize wisely, simplify routines, let go of perfectionism, and create a home environment that reflects God’s mercy, not your exhaustion. This is homemaking for the trenches—gentle, grace-filled, and grounded in hope.

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

• Explain how the autonomic nervous system (fight/flight/freeze) impacts prayer, patience, and presence
• Identify your current nervous system state in real time and choose a matching regulation tool
• Practice Orienting to anchor in the present moment and signal safety to the brain
• Use Regulated Breathing (long exhale, box breathing, physiological sigh) to calm the body quickly
• Ground through sensation (feet, posture, pressure) to interrupt spirals and dissociation
• Apply Affect Labeling to name emotions, reduce intensity, and re-engage the prefrontal cortex
• Set Micro-Boundaries that protect your capacity and serve your primary vocation
• Integrate sacramentals, sacred art, posture, rosary beads, and breath prayers into regulation
• Distinguish between spiritual struggle and physiological activation—pray when ready, breathe when needed
• Build a weekly Regulation Plan for your home, commute, parish life, and work

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Surviving Infidelity: A Catholic Woman’s Guide to the First 30 Days is a faith-filled online course designed to walk with you through the devastating discovery of betrayal. Grounded in neuroscience, attachment theory, and Catholic theology, this 30-day healing path offers daily guidance, trauma-informed support, and spiritual strength for your heart, mind, and marriage. You’ll receive practical tools, gentle psychological education, and encouragement rooted in the dignity of your vocation. You are not alone—there is hope, healing, and a faithful future beyond this pain.

You just found out. Now what?
This free 30-day video course gently walks with Catholic women in the immediate aftermath of discovering their husband's pornography use. You'll receive trauma-informed support, grounding tools, guided prayer, and expert insights—without pressure to make big decisions right away. Whether you're in shock, grieving, or just trying to get through the next hour, this course is a steady hand to help you breathe, stabilize, and begin to heal.