About Us

I am Peter Malinoski, Ph.D., president and co-founder of Souls and Hearts, and a clinical psychologist for the past 20 years in private practice in Indianapolis. I specialize in resolving problems and healing wounds that bridge the psychological and spiritual realms. A particular emphasis on unconscious psychological factors that thwart one’s capacity to receive love from God, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and other people underlies my work. I also focus on the unconscious dynamics that get in the way of us loving God and each other. I’ve been particularly influenced by Carmelite spirituality, especially St. Teresa of Avila and St. Therese of Lisieux and also by St. Maximilian Kolbe. With Souls and Hearts, I manage the business operations and contribute to content creation. I have been married for 27 years to my beloved wife Pam. We have seven children aged 10 to 25. I enjoy raising chickens, ducks, sheep, pigs, and a dairy cow as well as vegetables and fruits on our five-acre, integrated farm. I also like to run, and I delight in Ultimate Frisbee. I lead the Interior Therapist Community (ITC) and the Resilient Catholics Community (RCC) within Souls and Hearts, and I create the weekly Interior Integration for Catholics Podcast.

I am Gerry Crete, Ph.D., chief executive officer and co-founder of Souls and Hearts. I am a licensed marriage and family therapist and professional counselor in private practice. My practice, Transfiguration Counseling, is based in Atlanta, Georgia. In addition to marriage counseling, I specialize in the treatment of trauma and anxiety disorders. As an EMDR certified therapist I help my clients process past wounds and adapt to stress in new ways. My spiritual approach has been influenced especially by the writings and practices of St. Francis de Sales, St. Ignatius of Loyola, and St. Teresa of Avila. As a Byzantine Catholic, I have also been influenced by the Eastern Christian emphasis on the person as created in the image of God as well as the concepts of theosis (inner transformation into the likeness of God) and hesychasm (stillness before God). On a lighter note, I’m a lifetime science fiction/fantasy geek who enjoys old comic books and movies. I also love biking and hiking. I’ve been married 27 years and have three grown children.

I’m Pam Malinoski, and I support Souls and Hearts as integrator, helping pull together all aspects of the organization focused on a single vision. I also help with a wide variety of tasks throughout our growing organization, pitching in wherever I’m needed. I have a degree in journalism and have worked in public relations and corporate communications as well as a freelance writer. After about a dozen years as solely a homemaker, homeschooler, and homesteader, I jumped back into the freelance writing world in 2016. My favorite thing to say about being a mom of a large family is that “I’m never bored!” Children grow and change every day, and through the grace of God, I get to be part of their amazing lives. My favorite homesteading project is maple syruping in the late winter. It’s six weeks of hard work and then you’ve got a year’s supply of syrup. Since cold weather and snow mean more syrup, it’s a happy reason for February weather.

I am Marion Bean Moreland, Lead Navigator for the Resilient Catholic Community. I am a licensed Professional Counselor in West Virginia, and I am an Internal Family Systems Consultant. I have a private practice; Integrated Hearts and I am a Professor for the Spiritual Direction Certificate Program and Divine Mercy University. I am a Certified Clinical Traumatologist with a passion for helping after a disaster. I am Roman Catholic and a Tertiary in the Order of the Most Holy Trinity and have been influenced by Bl. Anna Marie Taigi, Bl. Elizabeth Canori Mora, St. Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross. I have been married for 39 years, have three daughters and their families have brought us 9 grandchildren with one on the way. When I’m not spending time with family I love to dance, play games, work on home projects, and travel.

I am Patty Ellenberger, Office Manager for Souls and Hearts. I have a degree in accounting and worked as a public and cost accountant before opting to stay at home to raise our five children. I have been home schooling for the past 24 years, during which I have been active volunteering for my kids’ school co-ops and activities, as well as parish ministries. With our youngest graduating, I am excited that the next chapter of my life includes working with the Souls and Hearts team. I enjoy trying new recipes, reading, biking with my husband, Jeff, and spending time with our family.

I am Peter Martin, PsyD, a clinical psychologist and training director at a Catholic faith-integrated doctoral internship program based in Lincoln, Nebraska. I head the psychological and faith-integrated formation of our interns, mental health professionals and other clinical staff. I am indebted to the writings and exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola, and I have become increasingly influenced by Carmelite spirituality. I am also a consultant for the human formation program of a religious order. I have developed a task for assessing psychospiritual experiences called the Holy Trinity & Mary Drawings (HTMD) and am co-leading a multi-site psychospiritual vocational assessment project to evaluate the functioning of diocesan and men’s and women’s religious life candidates. I have a deep interest in understanding and healing psychological obstacles to authentic spiritual encounters and relationships, understanding the psychology of belief and unbelief, and authentic religious conversion. I have been married for over a decade and the Lord has blessed my wife, Larissa, and me with 3 rambunctious children who love to explore our acreage that is garnished with 50+ chickens, cattle, cats and a dog. On a personal level, I probably could have been diagnosed as a basketball junkie in my younger days, I love all things G.K. Chesterton and am a Thomist at heart. I am honored to be with the Interior Therapist Community as a Trainer and Consultant within Souls & Hearts.

I am Adam Gardiner, and I work behind the scenes in the intake process here at Souls and Hearts. My wife and I have been married for 26 years and have five daughters. After a reasonably successful entrepreneurial career, we have retired and are both enrolled in Divine Mercy University’s Masters in Counseling program, pursuing the next chapter of our calling to serve. I was received into the Catholic Church at Thomas Aquinas College, graduated in 1996, and began the Christian phase of my life-long journey to find healing, meaning and purpose. This quest has led me to Internal Family Systems, and I have found a home at Souls and Hearts to support my practice of authentically Catholic IFS and to help others along this path.

I am Michelle Gardiner and am active in Souls in Hearts as both a member of the Resilient Catholics Community and as a writer of PartsFinder Pro reports. I graduated from Thomas Aquinas College, where I was blessed to meet my husband, Adam, with whom I have had 5 beautiful girls. Honored to homeschool and be a stay-at-home mom for the last 26 years, I am now pursuing a Master’s in Counseling at Divine Mercy University, along with my husband. I have a passion for learning and connecting seemingly disparate truths into novel theories. My hobbies include regenerative gardening, foraging, natural health, Eastern Catholicism and tennis.

Hello! I am Monty De La Torre, Ph.D., and currently the philosopher-in-residence at Souls & Hearts. I hold a Ph.D. in philosophy from Australian Catholic University, an M.A. in Theology from Christendom Graduate School of Theology, a B.A. in Philosophy from the Catholic University of Leuven, and a B.A. in Music from La Sierra University. I wrote my Ph.D. dissertation on St. Thomas Aquinas’s Fourth Way. I am passionate about utilizing IFS, philosophy, and theology in the development of human formation and the general pursuit of healing. I love to read, lift weights, watch movies, dance, and collect art. It is grace to be part of this organization.

My name is Severin Kempf, and I serve Souls and Hearts with backend IT support through my business, Indy Engineering Solutions. A mechanical engineer by training, I have spent the last 16
 years in a mix of systems administration and custom programming services. My primary interest is programming methods development, especially in LISP.

My beautiful wife, Amy, and I have an admittedly large and still growing family. We work together on a one-acre homestead where we make syrup in the spring, raise poultry and sheep in the summer, and
 harvest a lot of fruits and vegetables in the fall. I greatly enjoy understanding how things work and frequently fix things as a hobby.