The FREND Group Clinics                                           Office: Tel: (866) Dr Ricci
Post Office Box 800                                                     Email: DrRicci@TheFRENDGroup.org
Shady Cove, OR 97539                                               www.TheFRENDGroup.org

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Born: April 12, 1941, Providence, RI
Military: United States Air Force (1960-64)
Marital Status: Married (5 children, 12 grandchildren)

PRESENTATIONS

Conducted over six thousand stress reduction, weight management and smoking cessation training/clinics nationally for city, county and state governmental agencies, major corporations, law enforcement, firefighters, health organizations, educational institutions, professional associations and American Indian tribes.

EDUCATION

* 1996 Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, Graduate of HMI (Institute for Advanced studies in Clinical Hypnotherapy.), Tarzana, CA

Hours of Formal Training 360
Hours of Internship 4,033

Curriculum:

• Theory of the Mind
• Characteristics of Physical and Emotional Suggestibility
• Dominant Laws of Suggestibility
• Literal and Inferred Suggestions in Therapy
• Smoking Cessation
• Weight Control
• Alcoholism and Drug Addiction
• Gambling
• Obsessive Compulsive Behavior
• Fear and Phobias
• Depressive Behavior
• Suicidal Ideation
• Progressive Relaxation
• Relationship Counseling
• Treatment Modalities
• Hypnotic Inductions
• How Sexuality is Formed
• Physical and Emotional Sexuality in Terms of Psychoanalysis
• Biofeedback GSR (Galvanic Skin Response)
• Circle Therapy
• Visualization
• Suggestive Imagery
• Corrective Therapy
• Memory Improvement
• Insomnia
• Stuttering
• Children Bedwetting
• Specific Client Behaviors
• Counseling the Heterosexual Relationship
• Intellectual Sexuality
• Female Homosexuality
• Male Homosexuality
• Neurotic Behavior
• Suggestibility Tests and Conversions.

HMI Accreditation and Approvals:

• Accredited by the Accrediting Council for Continuing Education and Training (ACCET), an accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
• Approved by the California Bureau for Private Post Secondary and Vocational Education (BPPVE).
• Approved by the California Board of Behavioral Science Examiners (BBS) as a provider for continuing education credits for California licensed Marriage and Family Therapists and licensed Clinical Social Workers.
• Approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN) as a provider of continuing education credits for Registered Nurses.
• Approved by the Dental Board of California (DBC) as a provider of continuing education credits for licensed Dentists and Dental Assistance.
• Accredited by the Distance Education and Training Council (DETC), an accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
• Approved by the Hypnotherapist's Union Local 472 as an educational provider for Certification in Hypnotherapy.

* 2000 Doctor of Philosophy in Metaphysics and Theological Counseling, Graduate of American College of Metaphysics, a nonprofit theological institution., Minneapolis, MN

A Metaphysician is both a psychological counselor, spiritual comforter and a healer that facilitates a closer relationship between the psychologist and the spiritual healer.

Curriculum:

• Study of the family from the metaphysical and spiritual perspective.
• Dynamic principals of personality adjustment and maladjustment as they apply to the work of counselors and the counseling pastor.
• Applied psychology which influence the work of teachers and ministers in handling emotional and physical problems of youth and maturity, and in dealing with the sick and dying.
• Principles of the conscious awareness of thought to discover we are not a "victim" of circumstance. Acknowledgement that life follows a natural pattern according to conscious and subconscious thoughts.
• Investigation of the first causes of existence and knowledge. Seeks to explain the nature of uniting man's physical, mental, and spiritual character into its true nature of holism.
• Binding psychology and spirituality.

* 1961 Graduate of the Army Corp School of Engineering, Washington, DC in Computational Geodetics, a scientific discipline that deals with the measurement and representation of the earth.

* 1963 Florida State University Majoring in English, Tallahassee, FL

* 1966 Graduate of Electronic Computer Programming Institute (ECPI) as a Certified Computer Programmer, Providence, RI

Curriculum:

• Machine Language Programming
• Fortran IV Programming Language
• SPS-Symbolic Programming System
• Autocoder
• 083 Card Sorter
• Unit Record Equipment
• 407 Accounting Machine

Additional Computer Proficiencies:

Both IBM and Macintosh computer platforms. Microsoft Word, Excel, Entourage, PowerPoint, Photoshop, QuarkXPress, Scanwise, Appleworks, Discus, Imovie and Quicken.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1967-1971 Scientific Computer Programmer for Interstate Electronics

Software Development for underwater sound detection and identificaiton, and missile guidance tracking.

1971-Present Executive Director/Founder of Frank Ricci Productions

Performed, produced and directed over 10,000 entertainment and health improvement special events.

Co-starred with numerous superstars like Reba McEntire, Tony Bennett, Tammy Wynette, Marty Robbins, Don Rickles, Burt Reynolds, Wayne Newton and dozens more.

1994-Present Executive Director/Co-Founder of The FREND Group Clinics

A charitable organization and national leader in behavior modification.

Conducted training/clinics to over two hundred organizations nationally with over one hundred thousand attendees.

FREND’s mission is to help reduce chronic stress, tension and anxiety and stress-related issues such as smoking and obesity through education, inspiration and treating people in need and in the process help organizations reduce health care costs.

HONORS, AWARDS, RECOGNITION

Humanitarian Award for work with Down’s Syndrome children from Endeaver School of Fullerton for Trainable Mentally Retarded, Fullerton, CA

Recognized by the Urban League for work with inner-city youth.

ASSOCIATIONS

* Member of the American Counseling Association 2001-2003

* Member of the American Hypnosis Association 2004-2005

REFERENCES

Leon Sherman, Mayor, City of Eagle Point OR (2003-2011)
                       Contact: (541) 826-4974

Jane Turner, City Manager, City of Phoenix, OR (2008-2012)
                       Contact: janemt503@gmail.com

John Discola, General Manager/Founder, DPRX Corporation (1988-Present)
                       Contact: jdiscola@yahoo.com

Email: DrRicci@TheFRENDGroup.org
Call toll-free: 1-(866) 377-4224

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