About Frances
Frances Patton is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 13 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who are stressed, anxious, or facing relationship and intimacy struggles. She works with individuals to manage depression, grief, trauma, and the everyday challenges that make life feel overwhelming.
Frances uses practical, talk-based therapy. She helps people identify patterns that keep them stuck and develop new ways of handling feelings and conflict.
Background and approach
Sessions are straightforward and anchored in real-life goals, whether that means improving sleep, rebuilding trust, or coping with major life changes. Her background includes work with relationship issues and attachment concerns, so she often blends approaches that look at emotional bonds and day-to-day behaviors. She draws on methods that help people change unhelpful thoughts and improve emotional connection with others.
This mix supports work on communication problems, codependency, abandonment feelings, and family of origin wounds. Frances also understands the weight of trauma, loss, and isolation. She guides people through grief and post-traumatic stress with attention to pacing and safety.
When appropriate, she uses structured tools to reduce symptoms and build coping skills for anger, eating and sleeping struggles, and low self-esteem. She welcomes conversations about faith and spirituality when that is important to the client. Frances practices in South Carolina as an LMFT and conducts sessions in English.
Her style aims to be direct, compassionate, and focused on helping people move toward a more manageable life.
Online approaches for anxiety and relationships
Frances often uses attachment-based work to look at how early bonds shape current relationships. This approach helps people understand why they react strongly in close relationships and offers ways to build safer emotional connection. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for reducing anxiety, improving sleep, and shifting negative self-talk.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Frances will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they try approaches and adjust the plan based on what is helping, combining methods when needed to address both feelings and behavior.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is good for a face-to-face conversation, phone can fit a busy day and uses less bandwidth, and messaging or live chat can be a shorter check-in or a way to get steady support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and daily life while keeping the focus on progress and practical skills.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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