The
Self-Awareness Institute
Franceen King, Ph.D., Director
Licensed Mental Health
Counselor
Board Certified Clinical
Sexologist
Ordained Minister, COTC
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The Self-Awareness
Institute was formed in 1983 by Dr. Franceen
King, its Director and principal, as a center for personal growth,
self-exploration, and healing, offering holistic and transpersonal approaches
to individual counseling, psychotherapy, group seminars and training events.
The objective of all SAI
activities is to empower clients to clarify and create for themselves the life
experiences they desire, free from the limitations of past beliefs, traumas,
and automatic, often painful, emotional responses and behaviors which might
have controlled them previously.
SAI activities start with
the assumption that we are essentially spiritual, or non-physical, beings who are already magnificent and whole. "Recovery"
and "healing" are perhaps more accurately "re-discovery"
and "re-claiming" of our true nature; shifts in our identity and
perceptions, and remembrance of our loving purpose and intentions. Every crisis
or symptom is simply a call to wake up and remember.
Since we are so much more
than our bodies, emotions, relationships, jobs, bank accounts, or even our
thoughts, we have the ability to alter our experiences and conditions in any of
these areas.
This shift in who and what
we know ourselves to be, is truly transformational. For some, it
is easy; for most of us it includes emotionally challenging periods of
self-doubt, confusion, resistance and struggle. For all, it is facilitated by
contact with others who are able to perceive the Higher Power within us even
when we can't; and who will provide safety, support and guidance for us as we
both integrate and release the past, and step into this new identity and
awareness of Self.
Our clients come from many
walks of life, with a wide array of experiences and presenting problems or
issues. At other times our clients are simply "curious"... wondering
if there could possibly be more in Life to experience and explore. And since we
are ultimately Infinite, the answer is always
"Yes!"
SAI's approach is strongly aligned with
the teachings of The Course in Miracles. Within this context, SAI
employs a variety of techniques including rebirthing, hypnotherapy, brain wave
entrainment and synchronizing through Hemi-Sync(R), regression, inner child
work and reparenting, cognitive re-framing,
affirmations, emotional release, guided imagery and visualization, movement,
prayer, meditation, energy channeling, goal-setting, forgiveness, etc.
In every case, our emphasis is
on teaching clients the perceptions and skills they need to heal themselves.
Franceen King is probably most well-known for
her work with Rebirthing, a gentle yet powerful breath therapy and self-help
technique developed during the mid '70's. Since then, the power of the breath
has been widely recognized for its cleansing, energizing and illuminating
impact ... allowing a new integration of mind, body and spirit to emerge. Since
breath is Spirit, it provides a connection between the Infinite and the Finite.
Dr.King has been in private practice in the
Before entering private
practice, she spent eleven years working in large organizations, beginning at
the National Institutes of Health. Her organizational work included every phase
of employee development, with emphasis on executive and management development,
and organization development. In 1976, she formed her own training and consulting
firm and worked with client organizations throughout the
Her own spiritual awakening
began in 1971, with dramatic expansions of awareness, miraculous physical
healings, and at times, overwhelming in-flows of energy and information. Along
the way, she studied many systems and disciplines, including four years of
ministerial studies in spiritualist, metaphysical, and mystical traditions. In
1994, she became an ordained minister in Church of the Creator.
Recognizing the inevitable
convergence of spirituality and psychology, and the role of crisis and symptoms
in spiritual emergence, she chose to focus her work on individuals, and small
groups, using techniques which allow and facilitate this new integration.
In addition to private practice
and and her own Florida-based workshops, she also
conducts week-long residential trainings for the Monroe Institute in
