Lu·mi·ne Mentoring – Colored by Light

Hope and healing for moms who love their families and are running on empty.

Courageous Recovery and Healing from Betrayal Trauma

I'll help you unpack the burdens you are carrying.

If you are a Catholic mom who feels overwhelmed, isolated, or heavy-hearted, and you are quietly wondering whether you could survive another baby, you are not alone and you are not failing. I'm Caroline Haggarty, a Certified Mentor and CatholicPsych Institute partner, and I'd love to walk with you.

In your light we shall see light." — Psalm 36:9

My Story

I know this road from the inside. I have lived with symptoms of depression to varying degrees throughout my life, from childhood through adolescence, young adulthood, my conversion, and beyond. I met Christ when I met my husband in my mid-twenties - or rather, Christ met me. I was searching for connection, intimacy, purpose, and myself. God answered, but isolation and trauma kept feeding the heaviness.

I went through post-partum depression after my first, third, and fourth babies. I finally sought help when my fourth child was about eight months old. I received therapy and took an SSRI for many years.

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Caroline Haggarty, CM

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I came to CatholicPsych Institute during a season of severe hardship, while praying a novena to the Holy Spirit and making a consecration to Our Lady. Meeting Dr. Greg and discovering their CPMAP (CatholicPsych Model of Applied Personalism) certification was a provi``dential answer to prayer. Along the way I have come to embrace the truth that God desires my happiness both in this life and in the next, and that He is present with me in my suffering, not only asking me to offer it up.

Who I Help

I mentor Catholic moms who:

  • feel overwhelmed by the isolation, exhaustion, and monotony of life at home with young children

  • deeply want to be open to life, yet fear "more of the same" and a return of post-partum depression

  • believe offering up their suffering is all God asks of them, and sense they may burn out

  • are discerning another baby and want to do it with clarity, not fear

Your faith may be what is keeping you afloat. Faith and your own emotional well-being are not in competition. Together we can look at your story, your birth experiences, and the narratives about God's will that may be weighing on you.

How I Mentor

I practice IDDM (Integrated Daily Dialogic Mentorship), the model I was trained in at CatholicPsych Institute. Rather than aiming only at symptom reduction, it draws on the Catholic understanding of the human person, shaped by St. Thomas Aquinas and St. John Paul II, and works toward integrating every dimension of who you are: psychological, somatic, social, emotiona`l, and spiritual.


I find that depression is often experienced when there is a gap between your interior experience and your outer circumstances, relationships, and life events. So together we will:

1. Welcome all of your emotions and parts with curiosity, empathy, and compassion, including grief, anxiety, and anger.

2. Understand why they surface, where they are coming from, and what they are protecting you from.

3. Move toward healing and integration, so you can become who you are in God's loving eyes, and give yourself freely, because self-gift requires self-possession.

All of this rests on relationship. You will be seen, validated, and never judged. As a mentor I don't diagnose or treat mental illness or prescribe medication, and mentoring does not replace medical or clinical care.

Why "Lumine"?

My business name comes from "In lumine tuo videbimus lumen": "In your light we shall see light" (Psalm 36:9). Depression is often experienced as everything being grey and dark. My hope is to help that dullness be colored by the light of Christ.

I begin each day of client work in prayer, asking for His grace, because God is the true healer and I am His instrument. When the road is heavy, I return to the words of Peter:

"Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life." — John 6:68

I am confident that mentoring is what God is inviting me to, and I want to answer that call generously and with trust.

the world needs a catholic standard of mental health

“Everyone, in fact, especially those who have heeded the divine call to follow Christ closely, needs to be accompanied personally by a guide reliable in doctrine and expert in the things of God”

~Pope Benedict XVI

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Integrated Mentorship

We know how God made you, why you're stuck, and how to get you unstuck

The mentorship model I provide allows me to walk with you in full view of your whole humanity- your body, mind, and SPIRIT. We are trained by the CatholicPsych Model to understand you through the lens of Faith, Reason, and Science. This is the ONLY way to really know you, and how to help you.

A Daily Model

Accompaniment modeled after Christ should meet you in the context of your daily life, just like He does.

We help you understand and experience the work of God in your life. And even if you struggle with, or don't even believe in God, we can help you to experience how Goodness, Truth, and Beauty are pursuing you in the context of your lived life. You don't have to compartmentalize your "self-care" away from the rest of your life - I'll be with you every day, to walk with you as you are making your way through whatever real challenges are presented to you.

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Covering all the bases

If you're having a human experience, I can help you

Whether you are struggling with anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, or other typical mental health related issues, are looking for support and clarity in vocation-related struggles or discernment, are simply feeling burned out where you're at in life, or want to go deeper and reach further along your path to holiness and happiness, the Catholic model I practice from will help you.

What is the mentorship experience

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What are your qualifications? 

I am a Certified Mentor through the CatholicPsych Model of Applied Personalism (CPMAP) and a partner of the CatholicPsych Institute, trained in IDDM (Integrated Daily Dialogic Mentorship). My training integrates Catholic faith and spirituality with a sound anthropology based in John Paul II’s blueprint of what a human person is, and sophisticated principles of psychology - mainly informed by interpersonal process therapy, psychodynamics, and Internal Family Systems.

I am a wife and a mother of 7 children, and my own experience with depression and post-partum depression shapes how I listen. I mentor as a fellow traveler: I don't diagnose or treat mental illness, but I can walk beside you with empathy and a trustworthy framework while you grow in healing, integration, and freedom to become who you are as a beloved child of God.

What exactly is Mentorship?

Mentorship (technically called Integrated Daily Dialogic Mentorship, or IDDM) is neither traditional counseling nor spiritual direction, but occupies a unique space in between those two fields. Mentorship is daily accompaniment, looking at you and your story as an integrated whole, examined at your pace, with the goal of finding happiness and holiness in your life.