What our friends have to say about IDP:
From a Mother Superior:
Dr. Dilsaver and the Imago Dei Institute has been a great blessing to our community. Imago Dei Psychotherapy blends clinical psychology with a solid Catholic foundation that brings healing, wholeness, and holiness when the therapant chooses to follow the Imago Dei Way. Instead of much of modern psychotherapy that does more harm than good by feeding the ego and encouraging fleeing from suffering by too readily prescribing drugs, Imago Dei Psychotherapy embraces Thomistic principles of traditional Catholic teaching to embrace the cross for love of Christ, joyful surrender to Divine Providence, and fosters love of God and love of neighbor. I encourage my sisters to speak with Dr. Dilsaver when they are struggling with some issue, and I notice that after they talk to him, they have much peace. He has a gentle manner that enables him to speak the hard truth to his therapants and yet communicate his loving concern for them.
I thank God for bringing Dr. Dilsaver and the Imago Dei Way into our lives. Not only because of the help it renders to the sisters, but also because I can refer lay people to Imago Dei Institute when they come to me with their problems, some of which are quite serious, e.g., a son or daughter with same sex attraction, marital problems, etc. When I refer them to Imago Dei Institute I am confident they will find help.
From a Catholic Nun:
"A few months ago I was blessed to renew my vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience as a Catholic religious sister for three years. At the end of these next three years, God willing, I will make final profession and be forever espoused to Jesus Christ, my Beloved. However, around six months ago I found myself struggling in my vocation. I was really confused and may have ended up leaving my holy vocation if I had not come across Dr. Dilsaver and his way of helping others through Imago Dei.
Through my Imago Dei sessions with Dr. Dilsaver I was able to learn different habits that would make my religious life enjoyable again, something that through time had been lost. He encouraged me to grow in virtue, especially in humility. Instead of running from the cross I am learning to embrace it with love and to say, “Thank You, Jesus.”
Dr. Dilsaver also helped me understand and know the Blessed Virgin Mary in a more profound way. He opened up to me the essential dimension of the mother of Jesus Christ as a Lady of Sorrows and helped me to sorrow as she did, to feel pain as she did, and to forget myself as she did. Dr. Dilsaver showed me a woman whose heart was pierced, a woman of complete receptivity to the Divine Will of her Son, and then caused me to ponder whether I as a woman religious should try to imitate Our Lady.
The perfect imitate of Our Lady is an impossible task but one I hope to always attempt: to be for Jesus what Our Lady was for Him, to love Him with all my strength. Life is only about Our Lord Jesus Christ, only about loving Him. Dr. Dilsaver and the Imago Dei Way have helped me realize this and to find again my first love, Jesus Christ."
"A few months ago I was blessed to renew my vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience as a Catholic religious sister for three years. At the end of these next three years, God willing, I will make final profession and be forever espoused to Jesus Christ, my Beloved. However, around six months ago I found myself struggling in my vocation. I was really confused and may have ended up leaving my holy vocation if I had not come across Dr. Dilsaver and his way of helping others through Imago Dei.
Through my Imago Dei sessions with Dr. Dilsaver I was able to learn different habits that would make my religious life enjoyable again, something that through time had been lost. He encouraged me to grow in virtue, especially in humility. Instead of running from the cross I am learning to embrace it with love and to say, “Thank You, Jesus.”
Dr. Dilsaver also helped me understand and know the Blessed Virgin Mary in a more profound way. He opened up to me the essential dimension of the mother of Jesus Christ as a Lady of Sorrows and helped me to sorrow as she did, to feel pain as she did, and to forget myself as she did. Dr. Dilsaver showed me a woman whose heart was pierced, a woman of complete receptivity to the Divine Will of her Son, and then caused me to ponder whether I as a woman religious should try to imitate Our Lady.
The perfect imitate of Our Lady is an impossible task but one I hope to always attempt: to be for Jesus what Our Lady was for Him, to love Him with all my strength. Life is only about Our Lord Jesus Christ, only about loving Him. Dr. Dilsaver and the Imago Dei Way have helped me realize this and to find again my first love, Jesus Christ."
A few reviews of Dr. Dilsaver's Books:
"What a breath of fresh air! This may be the best book of its kind that I have read, with perhaps the exception of Archbishop Fulton Sheen's "Three to get Married." from Amazon.com
"The book is very direct and extremely well written. Every man - married, engaged, or single should pick this one up today." from absnospin.blogspot.com
"Author G. C. Dilsaver believe that the answer is for men to imitate Christ in an effort to lead their famlies to God. This does not mean becoming a domineering tyrant. It calls for self-sacrifice, discipline, and love. "
from gvonline.net
"There is much to learn in this book, and I recommend it for all families to return to God and the Church."
Review of Three Marks of Manhood, by Jim Logue, Jr.
"What a breath of fresh air! This may be the best book of its kind that I have read, with perhaps the exception of Archbishop Fulton Sheen's "Three to get Married." from Amazon.com
"The book is very direct and extremely well written. Every man - married, engaged, or single should pick this one up today." from absnospin.blogspot.com
"Author G. C. Dilsaver believe that the answer is for men to imitate Christ in an effort to lead their famlies to God. This does not mean becoming a domineering tyrant. It calls for self-sacrifice, discipline, and love. "
from gvonline.net
"There is much to learn in this book, and I recommend it for all families to return to God and the Church."
Review of Three Marks of Manhood, by Jim Logue, Jr.
"...Dr. Dilsaver has been a godsend. He has a way of cutting to the quick and focusing on the most important things in life. Without Imago Dei [IDP] I don't think our marriage would be together today!" A married couple in PA
"Dilsaver presents men as they should be and its refreshing."
Matt, PA
"Through my Imago Dei sessions with Dr. Dilsaver I was able to learn different habits that would make my religious life enjoyable again, something that through time had been lost."
A Catholic Nun
"Instead of much of modern psychotherapy that does more harm than good by feeding the ego and encouraging fleeing from suffering by too readily prescribing drugs, IDP embraces Thomistic principles of traditional Catholic teaching to embrace the cross for love of Christ, joyful surrender to Divine Providence, and fosters love of God and love of neighbor."
A Mother Superior - A Cloistered Community, PA
"Dilsaver presents men as they should be and its refreshing."
Matt, PA
"Through my Imago Dei sessions with Dr. Dilsaver I was able to learn different habits that would make my religious life enjoyable again, something that through time had been lost."
A Catholic Nun
"Instead of much of modern psychotherapy that does more harm than good by feeding the ego and encouraging fleeing from suffering by too readily prescribing drugs, IDP embraces Thomistic principles of traditional Catholic teaching to embrace the cross for love of Christ, joyful surrender to Divine Providence, and fosters love of God and love of neighbor."
A Mother Superior - A Cloistered Community, PA
