Jesus-Centered Schema Therapy®
“Ultimately there is no Connect-Talk® without a connection with Jesus, the Ultimate Connector, the energy source behind every act of love! And without love, “I am simply a gong booming or a cymbal clashing”. (1 Cor. 13:1)
®Connect-Talk®, LLC has a division that is created to meet the special needs of Christians and Christian marriages, or those interested seekers, it is the Jesus-Centered Schema Therapy® Institute.
We believe true healing comes through the grace of the Holy Spirit, even in lives who do not yet know Him. At the Jesus-Centered Schema Therapy® Institute Dr. Chiara tries to base client interventions and relationships on the Biblical models of Jesus and His disciples as the supreme example of being a Healthy Adult. We believe that God is the author and giver of life and joy!
Dr. Chiara: “I received my inspiration from my own walk with Jesus, encountering Him when in prayer when I was a junior in High School, and believing in no uncertain terms that He really exists and is my own Way, Truth and Life.
All in all, I focus on bringing hope to discouraged persons and disheartened marriages. I try to connect in meaningful and personal ways that help people open up to see what ‘might be’ with their work and participation, open to truth, meaning in life, and most of all the love and acceptance of Jesus which I hope to evidence. Jesus…the Only One who says things straight! I attempt to facilitate renewing hearts and minds, reconciling relationships, and binding up wounds.
At Connect-Talk®, LLC, my clients and I practice in simple ways to learn to do just that, connect with their beloved, and then Connect-Talk® becomes Connect-Walk, which is all about making permanent daily little efforts at progress and love-building relationship.
Schema Therapy, and especially Jesus-Centered Schema Therapy® for those so inclined, brings it all together in understandable and simple concepts and experiences that may just make the difference you are looking for!
More Client Info Jesus-Centered Schema Therapy® & CONNECT-TALK®
Jesus-Centered Schema Therapy® is based on the cutting edge therapy development called Schema Therapy. It is grounded on the Model of Jesus Christ as the perfect example of a spiritually and psychologically healthy human being.
The comprehensive conceptualization that Schema Therapy involves in its approach to marriage and personal issues is its keynote that directs the intervention by the therapist. This conceptualization is aimed at the precise unmet needs of the client or couple.
Dr. Chiara Simeone-DiFrancesco with over 20 years in this specialty, and an internationally certified Schema Therapy Trainer, brings clients Schema Therapy Made Simple and grounds it with Biblical truths, examples, and a prayerful experience. She elucidates a set of Biblical principles of relating called “Connect-Talk®” and states: “Ultimately there is no Connect-Talk® without a connection with Jesus, the Ultimate Connector, the energy source behind every act of love! And without love, “I am simply a gong booming or a cymbal clashing”. (1 Cor. 13:1)
This innovative counseling service is based on a Christo-centric anthropology (concept) of the human being. This means that the concept of who you are as a human being and your Needs and Rights, are based on your human nature as made in the image and likeness of God.
Curiously this allows for a level of connection on this very basis, namely the mutual respect of non-negotiable human Needs.
Connect-Talk® and Jesus-Centered Schema Therapy® also involve offsetting Early Maladaptive Schemas and Modes (see works of Dr. Jeffrey Young and others in the area of Schema Therapy.) This offset takes on special characteristics that target unmet Needs with gentleness. It unlocks potential for significant restoration of relationships, including marriage, family, professional associations and business. We can also see how Jesus handled different types of people which can help you with all of the differences between you and those you love.
Learn how your needs are both non-negotiable, and universal to all human beings. This means you and the one you clash with can meet on the same agenda, once you get to that level! Come find out how to tell the difference between a Need versus a Want, and you’ll be bound to learn a whole new perspective.
A dialogue becomes Connect-Talk® when it fulfills the Needs God placed in human nature. In fact, as the late Fulton Sheen stated: “It takes three to get married.” True Connect-Talk® is triadic.
Let us help you explore how, from both a Christian & a scientific perspective.
Dr. Chiara Simeone-DiFrancesco
Click here to preview from our up-coming book. It is the first of the exercise pamphlets in the kit accompanying the book, teaching partners in Marriage how to “connect”. You be directed to the back page of the pamphlet. You’ll receive the front page instruction when you purchase the book and kit.
“Ultimately there is no Connect-Talk® without a connection with Jesus, the Ultimate Connector, the energy source behind every act of love! And without love, “I am simply a gong booming or a cymbal clashing”. (1 Cor. 13:1)
