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Dr. Gregory Popcak

Executive Director of Pastoral Solutions Institute

Dr. Gregory Popcak Resource Advisory Council

Dr. Gregory Popcak (POP-chak) is the Founder and  Executive Director of the Pastoral Solutions Institute, an organization dedicated to helping Catholics find faith-filled solutions to tough marriage, family, and personal problems.  The author of almost 20 popular books & programs integrating solid Catholic theology and counseling psychology (including; Just Married:  The Catholic Guide for Surviving & Thriving in the First 5 years of Marriage,  For Better...FOREVER!,  Holy Sex!, Parenting with Grace, Beyond the Birds and the Bees), Dr. Popcak is an expert on the practical applications of Pope John Paul the Great's Theology of the Body. 

Through the Pastoral Solutions Institute, he directs a group pastoral tele-counseling practice that provides over 8000 hours/years of ongoing pastoral psychotherapy services to Catholic couples, individuals, and families around the world.    Since 2001, he and his wife and co-author, Lisa Popcak, have hosted several nationally-syndicated, call-in radio advice programs including Heart, Mind and Strength (Ave Maria Radio), Fully Alive! (Sirius/XM-The Catholic Channel), and most recently, More2Life (Ave Maria Radio--Airing  M-F, Noon-1pm Eastern).  They have also hosted two television series for EWTN (For Better...FOREVER! God Help Me!).   In addition to hosting Faith on the Couch, a popular faith and psychology blog on Patheos.com,  Dr. Popcak's articles appear regularly in periodicals such as Catholic Digest, Family FoundationsTender Tidings, Columbia, and others, and his work has been featured on FoxNews, NPR's Here and Now, the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Ladies Home Journal, and The National Enquirer.   Dr. Greg Popcak and Lisa Popcak are sought after public speakers and trainers and have been honored to address audiences across North America, as well as Australia, and Hong Kong.

In addition to his ministry work, Dr. Popcak serves on the adjunct faculty of both the undergraduate psychology and graduate theology departments at Franciscan University of Steubenville where he teaches Spirituality and the Helping Professions and Pastoral and Spiritual Direction respectively.  He also serves on the doctoral faculty of the Harold Abel School of Behavioral Health in the  department of clinical social work at Capella University where he teaches Epistemology of Clinical Practice