About Frances
Frances King is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who helps people with stress, anxiety and relationship difficulties. She works with those facing low self-esteem, grief, trauma and abuse, sleeping problems and challenges around intimacy. Frances also supports people dealing with parenting strain, career changes, anger and life transitions.
Her approach is warm and down-to-earth. She offers a calm space to talk and listens without judgment. Frances draws on creative methods such as visualisation, imagery and sand tray work when words are hard to find.
Background and approach
Frances trained as an integrative counsellor and blends different approaches to suit each person. That flexible way of working means sessions can focus on practical steps, emotional processing or exploring relationship patterns. She also uses cognitive techniques and attention to attachment dynamics in sessions.
Having supported people through cancer and their families, Frances brings experience with serious health-related stress and complex life strain. She has been practising in independent practice since 2018 and has six years of broader counselling experience. Frances holds BACP and NCPS credentials.
Sessions are offered using a mixture of talking and creative tools to help clients make sense of difficult feelings. Whether someone is coping with abandonment, codependency, dissociation, or divorce and separation, Frances aims to help them find clearer choices and more satisfying ways of relating.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Attachment-based work focuses on how relationships shape emotions and behaviour. In sessions this looks like talking through patterns in close relationships and noticing where old hurts affect present choices, which can help with anxiety, attachment issues and intimacy concerns.Client-centred counselling emphasises empathetic listening and the client's own agenda. The counsellor reflects and clarifies, giving space for the person to find their own answers. This approach helps when someone needs acceptance and a steady place to make sense of difficult feelings.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. In online sessions this often involves noticing unhelpful thinking patterns, trying out small behaviour changes and practising new coping skills between meetings, which can help with anxiety and low mood.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Frances works collaboratively to try methods that suit a person's goals and preferences, and adapts the plan as work progresses. Clients and counsellor decide together whether to focus on emotions, relationships or practical skills.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual work, phone calls can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth, and messaging or live chat suit shorter check-ins and ongoing coaching-style contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue continuity of care when in-person meetings are not possible.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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