Taking Care of your Soul
Paul Schmidt, PhD
Join Our Wellness Community
Wellness Education for Living and Loving (WELL, Inc.) is a nonprofit organization creating a free, online, and privately anonymous test of spiritual wellbeing, the Character Assessment Scale (CAS). It measures nine pairs of contrasting traits that were taught by Solomon, Jesus, and Paul - fruits of the Spirit and fruits of the Flesh, the selfish self-made self. These fruits describe toxic and healthy ways we pursue nine basic issues in life -- truth, respect, peace, support, love, mercy, sexuality, money, purpose, and health. Three learning tools are given for each of the nine issues: Devotional Guides, Life Lessons, and Parenting Tips.
Find the Good Life
When my clients leave behind their old toxic ways, they need to find new healthy habits. You can find Brain Food for the Good Life on ten different issues: Anxiety, Anger, Depression, Dating, Marriage, Parenting, Addictions, Sex Addiction, Codependent Enabling, and Personal Growth in Wellness. These subjects are addressed in 150 articles from my Brain Food blog, and 20 episodes of my Brain Food podcast.
Work with Dr. Schmidt
In my Louisville office and Zoom rooms online, I’m working to free people from their bondage to painful emotions, addictive habits, and bad relationships. I specialize in marriage, infidelity, single adult relationships, sex addiction, other chemical and behavioral addictions, and devoted loved ones who unknowingly enable people with those disorders. I’ve had education, publications, training, research, and vast clinical experience with each of specialty listed below.
Meet Dr. Schmidt
Educated at Vanderbilt and the University of Colorado, Dr. Schmidt is the author of numerous journal articles, two books, and two personality tests. After fifty years of practicing clinical psychology, he chose in 2025 to step away from his state license and his 20-year sex addiction certification, both in good standing, so he could counsel freely from biblical guidance. Today he draws on 30 years of research and the lessons of counseling 7,000 people, with one aim: what's best for all concerned in the long run.
Specialties
For all specialties below, Dr. Schmidt has done at least three of the following: received training certification, written a book, done research, taught classes or workshops, or written published newspaper and journal articles.
Love, Marriage and Family Relationships
Pornography, Infidelity, and Sexual Addiction
Managing Anxiety, Anger and Depression
Life Coaching and Personal Growth
Addictions: Recovery and Enabling