About Francesca
Francesca Dolan Wills is a counsellor with six years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She practised in hospices and worked with a pregnancy loss charity early in her career. More recently she has provided therapy within larger UK services including the NHS and police employee support, and she runs a independent practice alongside charity work with a cancer youth organisation.
Before training as a counsellor Francesca spent eight years as a work and employment coach for the UK government.
Background and approach
That background shaped her practical approach to career and workplace concerns. It also informs how she helps people manage life changes and work-related stress. Francesca offers straightforward, empathetic sessions where people can talk through worries about anxiety, stress, grief and relationship or family problems.
She also helps with depression, self-esteem, parenting strain, sleeping difficulties and intimacy-related issues. She often supports clients navigating fertility, pregnancy loss and serious illness concerns. Her style is warm and client-focused.
She aims to build a calm space where feelings can be named and understood without judgement. Conversations tend to be collaborative and practical, with steps you can try between sessions. Francesca draws on approaches such as Client-Centred Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy and Mindfulness.
She also uses solution-focused ideas to help people set small, achievable goals. Sessions are offered in English and she works with international clients when arrangements allow. If you are looking for a counsellor who combines practical experience with a compassionate manner, Francesca can help you talk through what feels difficult and plan manageable next steps.
Online approaches that suit busy lives
Francesca uses Client-Centred Therapy to create a respectful, listening space where your concerns guide the work. This approach helps people who need to feel heard and understood before making changes.She also uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy, which focuses on understanding and shifting emotional patterns that affect relationships and personal wellbeing. EFT can be helpful for people struggling with intimacy-related issues, family tensions or strong emotional responses.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Francesca will talk with you about your goals and preferences and together you will try methods that fit your needs. She adapts the mix of approaches as you progress so the plan stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy gives flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow for a face-to-face feel, phone sessions work well if bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging can be useful for short check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit sessions around work, caregiving or travel without losing continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- ADHD
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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