KATE SINER FRANCIS

194 Waterman St, Providence, RI 02906

(401) 654-4618 ◊ kates@largervisions.com

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EDUCATION

Highlights:

Worked with several exemplary professionals in the field, whose influence has been notable and inspirational:

*Natalie Rogers – daughter of Carl Rogers, prime mover of the Expressive Art

*Eugene Taylor – historian of psychology and student of Dr. Koch

*ALisa Starkweather – facilitator of women’s empowerment groups

Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center, San Francisco, CA

PhD in Psychology, with Expressive Arts Certification, expected degree completion in 2007

Courses:

Candidacy Essay 3: The Study of the Arts by Psychologists

Candidacy Essay 2: Sigmund Koch: A Portrait

Candidacy Essay 1: Dissertation Critique

Research Practicum

Developmental Psychology

Expressive Arts and Nourishing the Soul

Client Centered Expressive Arts for Counseling

Expressive Arts and the Wisdom of the Body

Expressive Arts and Social Change

Expressive Arts Group Process I

Expressive Arts Group Process II

Community-based Research Practices

Humanistic and Transpersonal Foundations

Research Basic

Research Advanced

The Descriptive Phenomenological Method

Thinking Art

Art and Psychology

Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center, San Francisco, CA

M.A. in Psychology, 2004

Courses:

Basic Clinical Skills

Pathology and Diagnosis

Mythology and Dreamwork

Assessment

Psychology of Multiculturalism

Research

Ethics in Psychotherapy and Psychological Research

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Vermont College, Montpelier, VT

B.A. in Psychology and Art, 2001

Courses:

Women and Art: Studio Study of Art and Women’s Development.

The Role of Archetypes in Women’s Growth and Development: Symbols

and Myths in Psychology, Literature and Modern Culture

Beyond Moralism: Philosophical and Historical Comparison of Religions and Their

Moral Codes.

Communication and Thought: Exploratory Study of Cognitive Development, Creativity,

Rhetoric, Logic, Linguistics and Semiotics

Art and Awareness: Connections between Art and Human Growth and

Development with Emphasis on Daily Living.

Art and Healing: Ritual, Shamanic Practices, and the Expressive Arts.

Spectrum Center School of Massage, Lake Stevens, WA

Licensed Massage Therapist (LMT), 1996

PERSONAL ACHIEVEMENTS & QUALIFICATIONS

Therapeutic Experience: Practice bodywork and counseling, originating from a core drive to deeply understand the meaning of healing, and to contribute significantly to this end.

* Private Practice –alternative psychotherapies and life coaching

* Expressive Arts with Hospice Patients and Families – CT VNA

* Integrative Massage and Bodywork in a variety of settings, including ancillary massage therapy for dying and terminal patients in order to treat chronic psychological and physical pain of this time.

*Counselor: Cap Quality Care, Westbrook, Maine. Provided substance abuse counseling to predominately dual-diagnosed populations. Clinically work from a humanistic paradigm, but competent in diagnosis and familiar with other methods.

Arts Experience: The arts as an essential means of communication and artistic practice as a central and important component of a healthy community.

Interdisciplinary arts projects include:

*Arts for Hospice – workshops and sessions

*Art in the park –improvisational dance

*Craving Voice – project: art for addicts

*Mother and Child – project: art for family

* Art for Domestic Violence – show

Poetry:

Poetry has been presented in Vermont, Maine, Connecticut and New York.

Painter:

Multi-media, acrylic, oil paintings have been shown in Vermont, Connecticut, Maine and Washington.

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Management and Organizational Experience:

Logistics Team -Nexus Conference

Regional Coordinator -Saybrook Graduate School

Planning and consulting -The Laurel School

Fundraising Chair -The Laurel School

Business owner and operator –Massage Therapy

Business owner and operator -painting

PERSONAL & PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS

*Practice alternative approaches to well-being with the drive and ambition to create and run larger organizations designed for enhancing individual and community wellness.

*Facilitate groups designed to evoke catharsis and self-understanding.

*Explore those branches of psychology that are not reductionistic in their methodologies: humanistic, existential, and transpersonal psychology in order to be able to more effectively aid clients with their personal growth and contribute to supportive literature.

*Engage the ritual process, working in harmony with basic rhythms to support the development of people and groups.

*Develop and market artistic practice

AFFILIATIONS & LICENSES

American Psychology Association

American Massage Therapy Association

Licensed Massage Therapist in Rhode Island

Ordained Minister, the Universal Life Church

Expressive Arts Therapy Association

TRAVEL

Entire continental United States, southern Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador, England, Ireland, France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Belgium.

Lived briefly in both Ecuador and Germany