About Francesca
Francesca O'Connor is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with eight years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical help for people coping with anxiety, addictions, depression, relationship struggles, and life transitions. Francesca aims to make the first step easier for someone who feels stuck or overwhelmed.
Her approach is adaptable and straightforward. She listens first, then works with each person to shape a plan that fits their life and goals.
Background and approach
Conversations are directed toward building skills that can be practiced between sessions so progress carries into daily routines. Francesca uses a mix of proven methods to address stress, low self-esteem, anger, parenting pressures, sleep problems, and trauma-related symptoms. She also supports people dealing with career challenges, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and identity or intimacy-related concerns.
Sessions emphasize clear strategies and steady skill building rather than abstract theory. She works in English and Ewe and has experience with a broad range of issues including adoption and foster care concerns, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and blended family dynamics.
Francesca describes her role as supportive and empowering: she helps people try new skills, notice what works, and adjust the plan as needed. People who want direct, practical guidance often find her style helpful. The focus is on realistic steps, steady progress, and treating each person with respect and sensitivity.
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to notice their thoughts and values, then take small actions that move them toward a more meaningful life. It can help with anxiety, avoidance, and coping with major life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms. It is very practical and often includes homework between sessions. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on understanding emotions and improving emotional connection, which can aid people dealing with relationship strain and intimacy concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with clients about goals and preferences, then suggest which methods might fit best. This is a collaborative process and plans are adjusted over time based on what makes sense for the person.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to work through these approaches. Video calls let the therapist and client use visual cues and practice new skills together. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging support ongoing coaching, quick skill reminders, or check-ins between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to use methods like ACT and CBT in everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Ewe
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