Franceen has been a life-long consciousness explorer, and a Monroe Institute Residential and Outreach Trainer since 1986. Over the years she has designed several of Monroe's programs, including Exploration 27, Starlines, Starlines II, and TDAP (1997). She experienced a major “awakening” in 1971, and participated in her first Gateway Voyage in 1979.

She began her career as a Management Intern at the National Institutes of Health, and eventually worked with many government agencies through her own consulting firm in the Washington, D.C. area, which focused on Organization Development, and Executive and Management Development. Since moving to Florida in 1980, she has maintained a healing practice with individuals and couples as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, and has conducted numerous personal growth and energy healing workshops through her business, The Self-Awareness Institute. She has a Masters Degree in Community Mental Health Counseling, and a Ph.D. in Clinical Sexology. She is also an ordained minister; occasional conference speaker; radio, TV, or print interviewee; and published author in the sexology field: Amazon.com: Waking Into "The Big O": A New Look at Sleep-Related Female Orgasms (2012).

Franceen has studied a wide variety of healing, metaphysical, and consciousness-expanding teachings and is committed to empowering participants to know better their Total Self and fulfill their highest purposes and aspirations.