Luke: a marriage in crisis
Step 1 → Step 4
Luke calls the trained listener on his church's care team, distraught: his wife plans to return to her home country at the end of the week. Her training and the app's guided intake show a five-year church marriage and no warning signs. She shares a short video on emotionally focused couples therapy for Luke to watch with his wife, starts both on a learning pathway for healing a marriage, and books a licensed couples therapist. After the first session the therapist takes over the pathway, and the listener stays in touch.
The couple stays together and keeps using the app to tend their marriage and their faith.
Grief: one week after a loss
Step 1
A widow calls her parish a week after her husband's death. She hasn't eaten in three days and doesn't know how to grieve. A trained bereavement volunteer responds. Her training puts safety first: she asks about health and any history of mental illness, finds none, and urges a visit to the doctor. She sets the widow up on a daily routine in the app, and each day's completion comes back to her so they can talk regularly.
If eating doesn't return or grief deepens, care steps up to a physician or counselor.
A mother worried about her daughter
Step 1 → Step 2
A mother tells a friend from her small group that her 15-year-old has changed dramatically and is verbally abusive to everyone. The friend, trained as a Companion, listens well, then invites her into a short learning module on family systems in the app. A brief check-in shows whether things are improving.
If they aren't, or if anyone is at risk, she steps up to a school or church counselor, or a family therapist.
Don: breaking free from pornography
Step 1
Don confides in his men's group leader that he is addicted to pornography. The leader, trained as a Change Partner, starts him on the Redemption Story guided journal and connects him to a 12-step group leader. Tools built into the app support each step, including a guided Step 9 planning wizard, a Step 10 resentment inventory and a Step 12 healthy-habit tracker.
Later, Don trains through the alumni-to-mentor pathway and walks with other men.
Nancy: starting with a psychologist
Step 4 → Step 1
Nancy calls Dr. Harbaugh's office for help with anorexia. The office sends her a link to the app, and she completes the intake questionnaire so the doctor has a full history before they meet. Between sessions she works on CBT homework in the app, and after each session she rates it, which starts a feedback loop the doctor sees.
When therapy ends, Nancy can step down to a trained listener or support group instead of simply being discharged.
Timothy: with a priest and spiritual guide
Step 2
Timothy meets Fr. Smith, his parish priest and spiritual guide, to talk about a possible vocation and the moral struggles he is carrying. After a good conversation they download the app together. They set up a daily prayer plan and a few resolutions, choose a journaling style so Timothy can begin writing his life story, pick a lesson track, and book their next meeting.
Formation continues between meetings, and the guide sees how Timothy is doing.
Tony: a pastor and a safety plan
Step 2 → Step 4
Tony asks to see Pastor Joe right away: he became so angry with his wife that he pushed her over the couch. Pastor Joe's training makes safety the first step. He makes sure Tony's wife is safe and connected to support, and refers Tony to a licensed clinician who specializes in anger and abuse. Alongside that care, they set up an antecedent-behavior-consequence journal that Tony agrees to share with his pastor, an anger management lesson and a daily prayer.
Pastoral support continues, but it never replaces the clinical and safety steps.