About Francesca
Francesca Di Genova is a counsellor who combines a humanistic outlook with cognitive-behavioural ideas. She uses clear, practical language to help people understand how thoughts, feelings and actions interact. She works gently and directly on stress and anxiety and on related problems like panic attacks and social anxiety.
She helps with common life pressures such as relationship strain, grief, career uncertainty and midlife change. Francesca also supports people facing addiction, sleep difficulties, anger, low self-esteem and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Her additional focus includes avoidant personality features, emptiness and intimacy-related worries. Francesca trained in approaches that centre the person and examine how thinking shapes feeling. She draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, to identify unhelpful thought patterns and try practical alternatives.
Her client-centred stance means she pays attention to the quality of the therapeutic relationship and aims to be warm and non-judgemental. With eight years of experience, she has worked across a range of presenting problems. Francesca speaks English and Italian, and sees people from the United Kingdom.
She holds BACP accreditation, which is listed as her credential. Sessions can take place online by video or phone, and by live chat or text-based messaging. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and arrange sessions according to the therapist's schedule.
Francesca aims to make therapy straightforward and focused on the changes the person wants to make.
Approaches and online working
Francesca uses Client-Centred Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy as the main approaches in her online practice. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on warmth, empathy and a respectful relationship so the person feels heard and understood. It helps when people need a steady, accepting space to talk things through.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It uses practical exercises to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try different ways of responding, which can be useful for anxiety, panic and sleep difficulties.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Francesca discusses goals and preferences in early sessions and adapts the balance of relational listening and CBT techniques to suit each person. This is a collaborative process where the person helps shape the plan.
Online sessions are delivered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video lets people see non-verbal cues and have a fuller conversation, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or messaging can suit quick check-ins, shorter sessions or people who prefer typing. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Italian
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