Fr. Henry A. Ormond, O.Carm.
Adjunct Professor of Pastoral Counseling
Office phone: (510) 832-2525
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B.A., St. Mary’s College of California; M.S., San Francisco State University;
M.A., Duquesne University; Ph.D., United States International University
The glory of God is a person fully alive. ~ St. Irenaeus
Fr. Henry trusts God’s action in people. His life is devoted to the psychological
and spiritual integration of people’s lives, both in pastoral counseling
and spiritual direction. Fr. Henry engages his students to develop an understanding
of the richness and importance of dealing with the emotional and psychological
dimensions of life that contribute to effective ministry. His methodology combines
Socratic questioning with reflection on personal experience. He believes that
learning happens in seeing the relationship between new information and what
is already understood through personal experience. Fr. Henry brings thirty years
of experience as teacher, psychotherapist, and spiritual director to ministry
with people in a variety of denominations and states of life.
The courses Fr. Henry teaches are Issues in Pastoral Counseling and Advanced
Issues in Pastoral Counseling. He formerly has taught courses in theories of
counseling and psychotherapy, supervised practicum, professional ethics and
legal issues in counseling, marriage and family counseling, and spiritual direction.
Fr. Henry completed his doctoral studies in existential therapy with Viktor
Frankl, M.D., and post-doctoral studies in Family Systems Theory and Therapy
with Murray Bowen, M.D.
Fr. Henry Ormond is currently working on a book that builds a contemporary
bridge to the spiritual classic of St. Terésa of Avila, The Interior
Castle. He is investigating the psychological dynamics of the journey she
describes through the “Seven Mansions” as being a journey towards
intimacy with God that is both desired and frightening.
Select Publication
“Being Yourself and Belonging to God: Dealing with the Many Hungers
of the Human Heart.” Paper presented in Rome, 2001. Forthcoming publication.
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