About Frances
Frances Recchi is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with three decades of experience supporting people facing anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, and addiction. She brings a calm, steady presence and a focus on building trust from the first session. Her approach aims to make difficult feelings easier to name and manage.
Frances uses person-centered methods that emphasize each person's strengths. She listens for patterns in relationships, work, and daily habits that keep people stuck.
Background and approach
Sessions include practical tools to reduce panic and reframe distorted thoughts, along with space to process grief, loss, and past wounds. Her background includes a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology and 34 years of clinical work in Massachusetts. Frances combines talk therapy with skill-building strategies drawn from cognitive and behavioral frameworks.
She also uses trauma-focused techniques when past harm continues to affect current life. People who work with her often focus on changing long-standing patterns like avoidance, codependency, or rigid control. She helps people practice new ways of coping, communicate more clearly, and make steady steps through life transitions.
This includes support for career stress, intimacy concerns, and compassion fatigue. Frances frames therapy as a collaborative process. She validates emotions while offering guidance and structured exercises.
The goal is clearer self-awareness, better emotion regulation, and more satisfying day-to-day functioning. She provides services in English and is available to international clients. Sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on client needs.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Frances commonly draws on Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and reflecting what matters to the person, helping build trust and self-understanding. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) offers practical exercises to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can reduce panic, worry, and depressive symptoms.Finding the right approach is collaborative. Frances will work with each person to identify goals, try techniques, and adjust methods based on what helps most. That may mean blending listening-focused work with skill practice from CBT or introducing trauma-focused strategies when past experiences are central to current struggles.
Online therapy makes regular care more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick check-ins, brief coaching, or people who find typing easier than speaking. These options let people fit sessions into work breaks, travel, or busy home schedules while keeping consistent progress toward their goals.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 34 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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