Our goal is to help you succeed with couples.

Three Training Tracks are Offered

You will find the latest scheduled virtual trainings below. 

 

 

 

 

track b

Culturally Competent Schema Therapy with Couples for Christians

 

Presented by Dr. Chiara Simeone-DiFrancesco, Ph.D.

Licensed Psychologist

Certified at the Advanced & Trainer Levels, ISST

70 hours total

As a stand-along training, this program meets ISST certification requirements.

For certification with Simeone-DiFrancesco Schema Therapy with Couples Training Center in Culturally Competent Care for Christians, Track C must also be taken.

 

Tuition is Tuition is $3500 for 70 hours

 

Training  includes understanding of schemas, modes, the schema therapy relationship, schema and mode interventions, chair dialogues, integrating Gottman, EMDR and Emotion-Focused techniques, step-by-step creating a detailed Client Conceptualization, techniques for traumatized clients, containment and self-calming, couple’s empathy producing exercises, de-escalating clashes, Mode Maps and Couples Clashcards, using the needs versus wants sorting tool, red versus blue leg contextual schema therapy applications, etc.

 

  • We present the required ISST curriculum for the 30 required training hours for individual ST comprised of didactic and experiential components. 

  • We add to this also the ISST required 18 didactic training hours for couples. 

  • And the 12 hours of dyadic role-play training hours

  • To this we add 10 hours of additional training components that make it culturally attuned for competent and effective practice with Christians which include didactic, experiential and dyadic practice, including fishbowl exercises

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Our view is that it is difficult to isolate problems only to the individual,

and for many who are married or in some other type of relationship, knowledge of both types of service delivery (individual or marital/couples) is a must to determine the most effective intervention for the client who is contacting you. 

The 30 hour individual standard ST training will also allow you the flexibility to work with those cllients who come to work on themselves.  ST is highly validated  in most diagnostic categories. 

read more about st & jesus-centering in st for Christian clients, at my practice website:

 

HTTPS://WWW.CONNECT-TALK.COM

 

 

Schedule for the Next Training:

Saturdays, 9 AM - 1 PM, Central

2024

Oct. 19

Nov. 2, 16, 30,

Dec. 14, 28

2025

 little break, then:

Jan. 18

Feb. 1, 15,

Mar. 8, 22

April 5, 19

May 10, 24

June 7, 21

July 19.

 

18 sessions total, the last one  having a 2 hour wrap up.

For details, and to obtain a detailed training brochure and an application please click here.

 

Track a

jesus-centered training for therapists

Also presented by Dr. Chiara Simeone-DiFrancesco

This is a 9 hour workshop.   Tuition is $650.

This course takes some of the interventions that you may already know, and teaches you how to make them Jesus-Centered.  This means, inviting Jesus actively into your sessions with Christian clients and partnering with Him for healing!  It includes topics that are all Jesus-Centered and integrates a Culturally Competent Christian application of well-known interventions for clients wishing to bring their faith into their therapy.

For Cultural Competence with Christians it demonstrates the methodology of Jesus-Centering in Guided Imagery, utilization of Chair-dialogues & other chairwork; CBT homework exercises, and application of Lectio Divina into a client session.  It also covers imagery rescripting in terms of using the re-parenting of both the therapist and Jesus.  Participants have opportunity to practice in dyads. 

Graduates will receive a certificate of completion.

To register & for additional information please click here.

 

Training starts:  January 27, 2024  10 AM Central Time

nEWS!

 

JANUARY 14, 2022, DR. SIMEONE-DIFRANCESCO WAS GIVEN A CPA AWARD FOR ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH EXCELLENCE 

for co-authoring:

Schema Therapy with Couples, A Practitioner's Guide to Healing Relationships

Published by Wiley & Sons.

 

EDUCATIONAL CONSULTATION

Provided by Dr. Simeone-DiFrancesco

 

There is nothing like discussing in a small group or tutored individually.  The learning goes from the head to the heart, and we become better together.

All Educational Consultation follows ISST best practices.

English only, unless the group engages a translator via Zoom platform.

 

Past trainingS

2023:

  • San Diego, CA:  Jesus-Centered Schema Therapy & Virtue-based Theology of the Body 

2022:

  •  Cairo: The missing Link:  Ethical & Multicultural Decision-Making of Couples & Families in Schema Therapy

  • Copenhagen: Connect!

2021:

 

  • Bulgaria, Schema Therapy with Couples
  • Mexico, Schema Therapy with Couples.

 

2016

  • 7th International Conference of Schema Therapy, Vienna, Austria

2014

  • 6th International Conference of Schema Therapy, Istanbul, Turkey

2012

  • 5th International Congress of Schema Therapy, New York City

2010

  • 3rd Annual Conference of the International Society for Schema Therapy, Coimbra,  Portugal                                                     

                                               

 

 

 

 

 

Romuald B. Simeone, Professor, Jesus-Centered Institute, LLC

 

 

track c

Scriptural Pastoral Foundations

 

Training & Certificate of Completion provided by Romuald B. Simeone in partnership with Jesus-Centered Institute, LLC.

 

 

The tuition costs are as follows:

There are three terms per year, each encompasses 4 months.  one 3 credit course is offered with continuity each term.  One three credit course is $725.   18 credits are needed to obtain the certificate.

6 courses of 3 credits each = $4,350 for the two years.  Full payment is required at registration, together with a $50 technology fee. 

 

Via Scriptural Pastoral Foundations, therapists and others can become trained and formed via the Scriptural Books of John for Jesus-Centering of their work from within the Christian culture and religion.

 

This course is for Jesus-Centered Healthcare & Allied Ministries and is OFFERED through our partnership with Jesus-Centered Institute, LLC and Professor Romuald B. Simeone.  This is a two year training program that provides a certificate of completion.

Its goal is to learn who Jesus is more precisely and be committed to Him more fully, understanding “follow me”.  It covers verse by verse in-depth explication of the JohanNine scriptural writings.  The books are read without commentary, but with the verses expanded to include in narrative fashion all the EXEGESIS & HISTORICAL SETTING. 

Taught by Professor Romuald B. Simeone, Scriptural Scholar, Genetic Historian, Theologian & Mission Catechist.  Required materials are the 4 textbooks of Bible, Love Letters From Your Father, Books of John, (Gospel (VOLS. 1a & 1B), Letters (vOL. 2)  & Revelation (vOL. 3), Lectio Divina, plus 63 hours of videos.  The books are for purchase (Amazon) and the 63 hours of video accompany the books for no extra charge.  There is approximately 9 hours of student engagement per week.  This time may be spent on watching the videos, readings, assignments and a monthly one hour group tutorial/class  with Professor simeone over zoom.  in this live, synchronous interactive class, questions and discussion regarding the scriptural readings and gospel jesus occur.  You will be taught how to make what the gospel is saying to you, personal to your life, and to hear how jesus is speaking to you day by day.

  

 

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Zoom meeting dates are:

Year 1 2024

Term 1: Feb. 16, March 15,April 19 and May 17.

Term 2:  June 21, July 19, Aug. 16 and Sept. 20.

Term 3:  Oct. 4, Oct. 18, Nov. 15, and Dec. 20

 

Year 2 2025

Term 1: Jan. 17, Feb. 21, Mar. 21, Ap. 18.

Term 2: May 16, June 20, July 18, Aug. 15

Term 3:  Sept. 19, Oct 17, Nov. 21, Dec. 12.

 

  • All zoom classes are on the third Friday of the month With the exception of Oct. 4, 2o23 and Dec. 12, 2025

  • Time is 6:30 - 7:30 PM Central time.

  • (Certification involves completion of all 6 terms over two years plus the  24 synchronous Zoom hours.  On a weekly basis is the paced outside reading & viewing of the videos.)

 

See Jesus-Centered Institute, LLC website for more podcasts, books & videos from 

Romuald Simeone: 

https://jesus-centeredinstitute.org

 

 

To be obtain a detailed training brochure please click here.