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Professional Background:
Dr. Chiara DiFrancesco was licensed by the State of Wisconsin in 1990 as a Psychologist.  Previous to that she has developed and practiced Reconstructive Relational Dialog (SM) with R. Benedict Simeone since 1974.  Together they gave workshops to over 7,000 people in churches, convents, rectories, retreat centers, charismatic communities and prayer groups, third order groups, Marriage Encounter, ecumenical interfaith centers, college pastoral centers, federal prison, and home gatherings in California, Pennsylvania, Virginia, New York, and Ohio.

Dr. DiFrancesco realized that psychology had to have a basis of theory based on the principles of logic, reason, the nature of the human person, and having meaning in life.  She graduated with Honors from Holy Apostles College, Connecticut with a double B.A. in Philosophy and Religious Studies as their first female graduate.  From there she received an M.A. in “Psychology in Education”, and an “M.Ed. in Counseling Psychology and Rehabilitation” from Columbia University, New York.  She proceeded to obtain her Ph.D. from the University of Mississippi School of Education in the Counseling Psychology program.

Her mental health experience has deliberately been very varied, from rural Mississippi mental heath centers, to the V.A. Medical Center in Memphis as a graduate student, to Northern Nevada Mental Retardation Center while at Columbia University.  Her doctoral internship encompassed sites at Massachusetts maximum state prisons, as well as at Boston City Hospital. A second period of internship was pursued at U.S. International Psychology Clinic including teaching graduate students at their Irvine campus in California.

After her degree Dr. DiFrancesco became a Commissioned Corps Officer in the Federal Public Health Service doing general psychotherapy and performing special assignments regarding sexual abuse victims.

At this point, Dr. DiFrancesco moved to Oshkosh, to lead a psychology unit in the State of Wisconsin Dept. of Corrections as Chief Psychologist, and to eventually pursue private practice.  She opened Wisconsin Family Growth and Reconciliation Center, LLC in 1992, which reaches out to a wide variety of people of all backgrounds, faiths, or no faith.  In the Spring of 2007 she opened up the division: Catholic/Christian Marriage Center, with a second office in Menasha.

Dr.Chiara has been active in various professional associations. 
Besides her Psychology License (WPA member) , Dr. DiFrancesco holds Advanced International Certification in Schema Therapy (ISST member) and certification in Medical/Analytical Hypnotherapy.

She is also listed in the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology, and has a Certificate of Professional Qualification in Psychology, from the Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards.

As a psychologist, Dr. DiFrancesco has been quoted in many newspaper articles, has spoken to various groups across the county including workshops, seminars and retreats, taught other therapists internationally and has had two radio shows. The most recent being in Oshkosh for a year and a half with the former owner of WXOL in a call-in series entitled: “Talk Life with Dr. D.”