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Dr. Chiara Simeone-DiFrancesco

Licensed Psychologist | MA, MEd, PhD

Dr. Chiara Simeone-DiFrancesco: Wisconsin Psychologist License, 1990 & Virginia, Clinical Psychology, 2014. Treats a variety of client needs & continues to specialize in healing marriage. She provides weekly and biweekly online therapy for clients in WI and VA, and also occasionally Marriage Intensives.
Holds Advanced Trainer/Supervisor Certification in Schema Therapy, Senior Educational Consultant & Trainer Certification in Schema Therapy for Couples; completed Level II of Gottman Marriage Training and an Externship in EFT (Emotion-Focused Couples Therapy). EMDR trained.
Founder of Couples/Marital Subcommittee of the International Society of Schema Therapy (ISST). Frequent international presenter & therapist trainer. Listed in the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology.

Comprehensive therapy for individuals/couples; Bi-weekly sessions. Assistance for those who wish to integrate their Christian faith to flourish in the Model of what it is to be a healthy human being in Jesus’ Gospel example and that of His disciples.
1) Marriage Therapy: Jesus-Centered Schema Therapy for Marriage; (frustrations, unmet needs, porn, communication, conflict, intimacy, schema clashes, etc.) This therapy is pretty in-depth, and goes to the root causes of how we each have developed our coping patterns that clash.
2) Individual Therapy for overcoming life’s challenges, filling unmet needs, alleviating negative schema patterns & symptoms, & creating a stronger Healthy Self. (Also in-depth, and looking at the patterns in one’s life and how and why they perpetuate.)
3) Marriage Intensives for individual couples.
4) Brief packets of Coaching for: integrity & witness in business; connect-talk skills; conflict resolution & listening skills; how to pray the Scriptures for guidance & healing; how to create daily Connect-Talk time with spouse; creating other rituals of connection.

As a psychologist, Dr. Simeone-DiFrancesco has been quoted in many newspaper articles, has spoken to various groups across the country at workshops, seminars and retreats, taught other therapists internationally and has had two radio shows. She has written an international book published by Wiley press with two of her colleagues entitled: “Schema Therapy with Couples: A Practitioner’s Guide to Healing Relationships,” by Dr. C. Simeone-DiFrancesco, et. al. She specializes in overcoming deep hurts, infidelities, betrayals, & making marriage #2 out of the ashes of #1 with your spouse.

She is particularly attuned to spouses who are feeling obligated to be intimate, and not having their heart and emotions in it, creating marital disconnection and avoidance. She has a virtue-based approach that calls forth the best from each spouse and is based on loving connection and attunement.

Remote Sessions / Telehealth