About Frances
Frances Dallison is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with 13 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress or low mood. She also supports those dealing with relationship and family tensions, grief, addiction and life changes.
Frances adapts how she works to suit each person. She draws on psychodynamic ideas to look at past patterns, and uses cognitive behavioural techniques to address thinking and behaviour in the present.
Background and approach
She combines these with client-centred listening to make space for what matters to the individual. Sessions are practical and conversational. Frances aims to help people understand why they repeat certain patterns and to test small changes that make daily life easier.
She uses mindfulness tools to reduce worry and improve focus when that is helpful. Her approach is calm and compassionate. She encourages honest discussion about difficult topics such as abandonment, domestic violence, eating concerns and addiction.
The focus is on realistic steps a person can take between sessions. Frances works with issues that often sit together - for example, low self‑esteem, communication problems and feeling stuck after a separation. She hopes to help people find more clarity, regain energy and make choices that feel more in line with their values.
How Frances uses talking therapies online
Frances commonly uses psychodynamic ideas to help people notice repeating patterns that come from past relationships and experiences. This approach looks at how early attachments shape present feelings and behaviours and can help with issues like abandonment, attachment struggles and relationship problems.She also uses cognitive behavioural therapy, which focuses on practical steps to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. CBT is useful for anxiety, low mood and developing coping strategies for day to day stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Frances discusses goals and preferences with each person and adapts methods accordingly, so the plan evolves in collaboration with the client.
Online therapy with Frances is available through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text messaging. Video sessions let you work face to face, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, and messaging can suit short check‑ins or people who prefer written communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and travel while keeping a consistent schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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