Kate Siner Francis, Ph.D., is a psychotherapist, writer, and educator who has been practicing integrative psychotherapy and holistic success coaching in the Providence area since 2005 through her private practice — now called The Therapy Collaborative. She earned her Ph.D. in Psychology and a certification in Expressive Arts from San Francisco’s Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center in 2008 — under the mentorship of Eugene Taylor, Ph.D. — after nearly 15 years of self-learning and practice of alternative approaches to growth and development. These methods include massage, energy work, shamanic techniques, and EMDR techniques. Kate has worked in addictions treatment and hospice care as well as received advanced training in domestic violence, grief, and trauma. For the past three years, she has been director and co-facilitator of Priestess Path — a women’s empowerment program founded by Alisa Starkweather — and studying Core Energetics under Karyne Wilner, Psy.D. More recently she has founded Larger Visions, a non-profit dedicated to educating emergent women leaders dedicated to social change and providing safe-house programming to victims of gender-based violence.