About Francesca
Francesca Cochard is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Pennsylvania. She has six years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, mood concerns, and relationship or family strains. Francesca uses a down-to-earth, client-centered style and focuses on meeting people where they are.
She often supports people coping with trauma, grief, addiction, and parenting challenges. Francesca also works with those navigating eating or sleeping struggles, self-esteem concerns, ADHD, and major life changes.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with youth in juvenile justice and foster care settings, which shaped her practical approach to difficult problems. In sessions she emphasizes listening first and then building skills together. Techniques come from cognitive behavioral therapy - finding and testing unhelpful thoughts - and from acceptance and commitment therapy - noticing values and taking small steps toward them.
She also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships shape feelings and behavior. Francesca adapts strategies to each person’s life and culture. She treats the person as the expert on their experience and helps them increase internal awareness and make concrete changes.
Sessions are collaborative and paced to what the client can handle. She offers multiple online formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Fees vary with location and a subscription model is used that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session.
Therapeutic approaches for online care and skill building
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then taking small steps toward what matters. It can help people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety or chronic stress to build a life guided by personal values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce symptoms like worry, low mood, or sleep disruption. This approach is useful for anxiety, depression, and many day-to-day problems. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape patterns of emotion and behavior. It can be helpful when relationship history affects trust, intimacy, or emotion regulation.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Francesca will work with each person to pick and adapt strategies that match their goals, culture, and pace. She starts where the client is and adjusts techniques as needed so the plan fits real life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face work and skill practice, phone sessions can fit into a work break or when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or messaging are useful for brief check-ins and continuing work between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life while keeping the focus on progress and practical skills.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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