WHAT THERAPISTS SAY ABOUT STAR

FOR FIRST-TIME VISITORS

Personal Message from the Director

Why Take STAR

Your STAR Experience

The STAR Process

The Essence of STAR

What Graduates Say About STAR

The Value of a Personal Growth Retreat

STAR Staff

FOR THERAPISTS

Message from the Director

What Therapists Say About STAR

Inside the STAR Process

Why Therapists Choose STAR

STAR Staff

SPECIAL TOPICS

Addictions and Recovery

Attachment Disorder and Relationship Problems

Anger Management

Attacking Anxiety and Depression

Grief Recovery

Childhood Trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress

Recommended Reading

Barbara Findeisen and her core staff are highly skilled and qualified individuals. They have developed and refined a program over the past 20 years which provides extremely effective therapeutic techniques in a tranquil and highly supportive environment. All the therapeutic methods used are well supported in the psychotherapy literature.

STAR is the best resource I have found for affordable, short-term therapeutic retreats. My clients feel safe enough at STAR to go deeply into their woundedness and return with more structure and clearer goals.

– Marti Glenn, Ph.D.
Psychotherapist and President
Santa Barbara Graduate Institute
Santa Barbara, California

STAR is the only program I have found that focuses on each individual 100% of the time. STAR is individual work done in a group, and my clients do not spend time “witnessing” the work of others. There is adequate staff so that no one is lost.

– E. Anne Love, L.C.S.W.
Atlanta, Georgia

The 10 days spent at STAR connects my clients with their individual issues, and allows them safe, uninterrupted time to set goals and gain direction for their ongoing work.

– Kay Starr Rachelson, L.C.S.W.
Atlanta, Georgia

My clients return from STAR with clear awareness of
their issues, and are a pleasure to work with.

– Lynette Danylchuk, Ph.D.
San Mateo, California

Since doing STAR, my client is living a much more joyful and healthy, well-balanced life. Her quality of life has improved 100%. She is meeting new friends, making progress on her eating disorder, and her self-esteem and perfectionism issues have improved greatly.

– Candace Rosen, M.S.W., L.C.S.W.
Psychotherapist
Phoenix, Arizona

My clients have come into a deeper connection with their feelings and are no longer resistant to “negative” feelings like fear, anger, and grief.

– Kim Grubbs, Counselor.
San Francisco, California

The STAR process, which includes many experiential activities, creates a path that leads a person to a choice about life. The work is done in a group, which is by far a more powerful way to work than one-on-one.

As a therapist for the last 20 years, my STAR experience has helped enrich my life, as well as bring clarity regarding transference with my own clients. I recommend STAR for therapists, for the wonderful personal experience, as well as having knowledge of what their clients experience upon referral.

As a therapist, I was familiar with STAR’s therapeutic techniques which are documented in psychotherapy research and literature.

STAR advances healing in a way regular therapy cannot... Clients can achieve results that might take years in regular therapy. And for people in crisis, it is better than any hospital I’ve ever known about and thousands of dollars cheaper.