Francesca Starr, Ph.D., LPC, M.A.

Complete Life Center

53 E Asbury Ave
Denver, CO
80210
USA

303-399-9001

Francesca@completelifecenter.com
www.completelifecenter.com

Through profound personal experience, I discovered the power of Voice Dialogue to get to the very core of a life issue or trauma, and provide the tools to resolve and heal from these challenges. In 1988, at her beautiful home on Kauai, my friend Shakti Gawain facilitated my first Voice Dialogue session. After struggling in the dark night of my soul for years, and working with any number of therapeutic and healing modalities, one Voice Dialogue session br oke through my internal stalemate. I experienced the exhilaration of hope for full recovery. With Shakti's help I went to Hal and Sidra Stone and worked intensively with the Inner Selves involved in my descent; and began to develop an Aware Ego Process in relationship to them. Through this masterful work I broke through and ascended from the darkness; I reclaimed my passion, my work, and my life. Thus, arose my commitment to this work. I trained with Hal and Sidra, and later with their daughter Tamar Stone and Martha-Lou Wolff. Voice Dialogue has been the cornerstone of my counseling, coaching, and workshop/training business ever since.

My gift is in safely drilling down to the very core of any issue and empowering the client to resolve the issue and grow the Aware Ego Process in relation to the Inner Selves involved. My approach is respectful of wherever the client is in their personal or professional growth, and allowing their rhythm for change to guide the work. I deeply appreciate Voice Diaogue's respect for the existing ego structure in each person and the truly safe manner in which change occurs and is sustained.

This work is my passion. I have never, ever been bored. I love each session as an opportunity to grow, to increase self-love and confidence, and transform life and professional skills from competency to mastery.

Detailed information

About This Practice

Practicing Since 1990
Teaching Since 1994

Additional Modalities: Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Jungian Psychology, Transpersonal Psychology, Psychodynamic Therapy, Mindfulness

Areas of Interest: The art and science of mastering paradox - "sweating the opposites" - as a path to evolving ones' consciousness.

Growing and experiencing the Aware Ego Process through Voice Dialogue. I have created a Spectrum Exercise which supports the embodied experience of the energy patterns of the different Inner Selves, and the experience in the body of separating from the Selves and coming into an Aware Ego Process in relation to the Selves.

I actively support the development of the Awareness position - the access to higher consciousness as an integral part of the Voice Dialogue Process.

As stated above, one of my keen interests is using Voice Dialogue to explore the Shadow and accompany those who are in the Dark Night of the Soul through the mysterious Underworld and back into life.

Many have told me that I have a particular gift at working with the Inner Child. My ability to create a very safe and respectful space supports even the most Vulnerable Child to come forth and share its deepest truth.

Degree
Title/Field	School	Date
M.A.	Institute of Transpersonal Psychology	1979

License
Title	State	Date
LPC	CO	1998

Certifications
Type	Granting Organization	Date
Board Certified Professional Counselor	American Psychotherapy Association	2007
Ph.D., Counseling Psychology	University for Integrative Learning	1999

Professional Background
With my first Masters Degree in Education, I began my career as a public school social science teacher. I created pioneering courses including: Discussing Controversial Issues; The History of Childhood and Childrens' Rights; Death and Aging; Exploring Inner Space. My mother and I wrote a book about the students' experiences in my classroom - Gay Hendricks wrote the forward and helped get it published by Prentice-Hall. I left Colorado for the Bay Area to study at the forward looking Institute of Transpersonal Psychology and explore what Maslow called, "the farthest reaches of human nature." I felt privileged to study with many of the leaders of the Human Potential Movement. I received my second Masters Degree in Transpersonal Psychology. I began counseling under the supervision of the Director of the Family Therapy Institute of Marin County. Then life took a turn and I spent ten years in the corporate world in marketing, management, and consulting. Here I honed my communication skills. I began my private practice in 1990. At this time I began my intensive training with Hal and Sidra Stone in Voice Dialogue. I moved my practice to Denver in 1995, where I founded the Voice Dialogue Training Institute. I essentially delivered Voice Dialogue to the Rocky Mountain Region. In 2005 the Institute evolved into the Complete Life Center. At the present I am a senior Voice Dialogue Facilitator and Trainer. I have served on staff at the Stones' Trainings in Mendocino, CA. I conduct workshops, and Level One and Two Training programs in Denver and around the country. I have enjoyed taking Voice Dialogue into the corporate arena. I work with most presenting issues, and integrate many other therapeutic methods and systems into my work (Transpersonal Psychology, Jungian Psychology, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy). I specialize in the following areas: the Dark Night of the Soul as a Transformational Path; Gay and Lesbian Issues; Recovering from Destructive Groups and Relationships; Recovering from Trauma and Abuse; Depression and Anxiety; Relationship Issues; Transitional/Adjustment Issues; Spiritual/Religious Concerns and Breakthroughs; Voice Dialogue and Shadow Work (the title of my dissertation); Stress Management; Creating Extreme Well-Being; Conscious Evolution. In addition to the above book, I have published numerous articles on: Voice Dialogue and the Descent Path; Voice Dialogue and Healing the Inner Scapegoat; Voice Dialogue and the Inner Critic; Voice Dialogue and the Perfectionist, etc. Several have been published by GoodTherapy.com and are on my website: www.completelifecenter.com I specialize in phone and Skype sessions.

Professional Background

With my first Masters Degree in Education, I began my career as a public school social science teacher. I created pioneering courses including: Discussing Controversial Issues; The History of Childhood and Childrens' Rights; Death and Aging; Exploring Inner Space. My mother and I wrote a book about the students' experiences in my classroom - Gay Hendricks wrote the forward and helped get it published by Prentice-Hall.

I left Colorado for the Bay Area to study at the forward looking Institute of Transpersonal Psychology and explore what Maslow called, "the farthest reaches of human nature." I felt privileged to study with many of the leaders of the Human Potential Movement. I received my second Masters Degree in Transpersonal Psychology. I began counseling under the supervision of the Director of the Family Therapy Institute of Marin County.

Then life took a turn and I spent ten years in the corporate world in marketing, management, and consulting. Here I honed my communication skills.

I began my private practice in 1990. At this time I began my intensive training with Hal and Sidra Stone in Voice Dialogue. I moved my practice to Denver in 1995, where I founded the Voice Dialogue Training Institute. I essentially delivered Voice Dialogue to the Rocky Mountain Region. In 2005 the Institute evolved into the Complete Life Center. At the present I am a senior Voice Dialogue Facilitator and Trainer. I have served on staff at the Stones' Trainings in Mendocino, CA. I conduct workshops, and Level One and Two Training programs in Denver and around the country. I have enjoyed taking Voice Dialogue into the corporate arena.

I work with most presenting issues, and integrate many other therapeutic methods and systems into my work (Transpersonal Psychology, Jungian Psychology, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy). I specialize in the following areas: the Dark Night of the Soul as a Transformational Path; Gay and Lesbian Issues; Recovering from Destructive Groups and Relationships; Recovering from Trauma and Abuse; Depression and Anxiety; Relationship Issues; Transitional/Adjustment Issues; Spiritual/Religious Concerns and Breakthroughs; Voice Dialogue and Shadow Work (the title of my dissertation); Stress Management; Creating Extreme Well-Being; Conscious Evolution.

In addition to the above book, I have published numerous articles on: Voice Dialogue and the Descent Path; Voice Dialogue and Healing the Inner Scapegoat; Voice Dialogue and the Inner Critic; Voice Dialogue and the Perfectionist, etc. Several have been published by GoodTherapy.com and are on my website: www.completelifecenter.com

I specialize in phone and Skype sessions.

Basic Voice Dialogue Training(s)
Title	Where	When	Hours / Days	Teacher(s)
Voice Dialogue, Psychology of Selves Intensives; Master Class in Clinical Use of Voice Dialogue	Albion, California	1990; 2/1994-10/1994; 9/ 2001; 11/2005-11/2006	212 hours / 32 days	Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone

Continuing Voice Dialogue Education^*
Title	Where	When	Hours / Days	Teacher(s)
Voice Dialogue Intensive	Denver, Colorado	01/21-23/2000	24 hours / 3 days	Martha-Lou Wolff
Voice Dialogue Level One Training	Denver, CO	04/09 - 15/ 2000	56 hours / 7 days	Tamar Stone
Voice Dialogue Level Two Training	Denver, CO	10/15-21/2000	41 hours / 7 days	Tamar Stone
Ongoing Voice Dialogue Personal Work	Albion, CA; Boulder, CO	1988 - 2009		Hal and Sidra Stone; Tamar Stone; Martha-Lou Wolff

* The most recent workshops.