Dr. Greg Bottaro
Dr. Greg Bottaro is a Catholic psychologist, founder of the CatholicPsych Institute and creator of the CatholicPsych Model of Applied Personalism (CPMAP). He received his Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the Institute for the Psychological Sciences, and works to integrate Catholic philosophy and theology with relevant psychology. He leads the CatholicPsych Institute’s mission to, “Create a Catholic Standard for Mental Health.”
Before becoming a psychologist, Dr. Bottaro discerned a religious vocation with the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal (CFRs). He lived in the Bronx for four years following the footsteps of St. Francis of Assisi. Under the mentorship of Fr. Benedict Groeschel, this experience formed him in the spirituality of Abandonment to Divine Providence, which he now integrates with his model of psychology, along with the discernment of God’s will he learned from Fr. Benedict.
In 2012, Dr. Bottaro returned to New York as a psychologist and founded the CatholicPsych Institute, which has continued to grow and serve clients around the world. Most recently he launched the CPMAP Certification to train others in their model of integrated accompaniment.
He currently lives in Connecticut with his wife Barbra and their eight children.
CatholicPsych Mentorship
Our approach combines faith and psychology, offering personalized mentorship to transform your daily challenges. We found that working every day with people, even if using the technology of voice messages with a phone app, worked more efficiently to build deep and effective relationships. Instead of getting to the end of a session realizing you’ll have to wrap it up to continue next week, only to then get stuck...
* Forgetting what you wanted to talk about
* Needing your therapist during the week
* Forgetting later what you discussed in the session
* Considering dropping out each week
What if you could speak to someone everyday?
* Share what you’re feeling, when you feel it.
* Get a response within 24 hours - you’re not left hanging
* Pick up the dialogue right there, that day, and keep going
* Your messages are recorded in a secure app - for you to keep
* Come back and listen to them anytime you want
Personalism
John Paul II’s personalism is rooted in the belief that each human person is a unique, unrepeatable being created in the image of God, possessing both a material body and an immortal soul, and capable of self-possession and self-donation. He argued that the human person cannot be reduced to mere material or social functions, and that respect for the person is fundamental to ethics, society, and the Church. This philosophy responds to modern challenges such as materialism, positivism, and the commodification of human life.
The mental health field has fully disintegrated from our Catholic principles, making it harder to find training that aligns with the truth of the human person. If you want to give people lasting change, you need an approach that integrates faith into science. However, most state-sanctioned programs are shaped by secular standards that undermine our worldview. This is why our training teaches psychology alongside spirituality and philosophy. We give you the tools to repair the world in a way that embraces the full individual.
No More Compartmentalizing. You are Body, Mind, and Spirit.
The world wants us to separate those things as if the human person is divided, but our Catholic worldview is that we are actually a unity of all three. The spiritual necessarily affects the psychological, and the psychological necessarily affects the spiritual. Priests and Psychologists should be working to build new models of the person that incorporate both. We’re doing our part.
Links
CatholicPsych
Fr. Benedict Groeschel
Being Human Podcast
CPMAP Certification
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