About Frances
Frances McNamara is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 15 years of experience. She practices in Pennsylvania and focuses on anxiety, stress, depression, and a range of mood and behavioral concerns. Frances brings a calm, straightforward style to sessions and centers each meeting on what the client needs right now.
She uses practical talk, active listening, and clear tools you can try between sessions. Meetings are meant to feel like a place to sort through worries, test small changes, and notice what helps.
Background and approach
She pays attention to both immediate coping skills and longer-term patterns that keep problems going. Frances has worked with people facing adjustment challenges, anxiety, ADHD, grief, addictions, and more persistent conditions such as bipolar disorder and personality disorders. That background gives her experience with both short-term coping and longer-term supports for ongoing difficulties.
Her approach draws on cognitive and dialectical methods as well as client-centered and emotion-focused ways of working. That means she will offer practical strategies, help you name and make sense of strong feelings, and keep the conversation grounded in your goals. Sessions are collaborative.
She aims to give space for people to tell their story and to try techniques that fit their life. Frances emphasizes respect, realistic steps, and steady support while people work toward greater stability and clearer direction.
Approaches and online care that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying values and taking small steps toward them even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present. It can help with anxiety, stress, and making meaning after hard experiences. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, behaviors, and feelings interact and teaches practical techniques to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is often used for panic, worry, and mood challenges. Emotionally-Focused Therapy focuses on naming and understanding strong feelings and how they shape relationships and choices; it helps people better regulate intense emotion and improve emotional responses.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Frances will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. She may combine elements from different approaches and will check in over time to see what is helping and what should change.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be simpler when lower bandwidth is needed, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and texting lets people send updates between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and try different ways of connecting to find what works best.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Grief
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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