About Francesca
Francesca Polini is a psychotherapist who uses an integrative approach to help people manage stress and anxiety. She works with adults on relationship worries, low self-esteem, depression, and effects of trauma and abuse. Francesca practises in the United Kingdom and speaks English and Italian.
Her work draws on attachment-based ideas that look at how earlier relationships shape current patterns. She also uses client-centred ways of working that focus on what the person brings to the session.
Background and approach
Francesca blends psychodynamic and Jungian perspectives to help people understand deeper themes in their feelings and behaviours. She also offers hypnotherapy as a tool some clients find useful alongside talk therapy. Sessions aim to be practical with time spent on understanding patterns, developing coping skills, and trying new ways of relating to oneself and others.
Francesca uses plain language and short, focused sessions rather than clinical jargon. With five years' experience she draws on living and working across different countries to bring cultural awareness into sessions. This background helps when clients are navigating identity, adoption and foster care issues, or changes linked to ageing and caregiving.
People come to Francesca for a mix of short-term help and deeper exploration. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their life. The first step is a short questionnaire to match needs and make practical arrangements.
How Francesca’s approaches work online
Francesca combines attachment-based and client-centred work to help people understand patterns and build stronger ways of relating. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early relationships shape current reactions, which can help when anxiety or relationship worries repeat over time. Client-centred therapy focuses on the person in the room, giving space for feelings and thoughts to be heard and noticed without pressure.She also draws on psychodynamic and Jungian ideas to explore deeper personal themes and recurring stories that affect mood and behaviour. These approaches can help when someone wants to understand why certain patterns persist rather than only managing symptoms. The therapist will work with the client to choose which methods suit their goals and comfort level in a collaborative way.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter, phone sessions can be lighter on bandwidth and useful for a quick check-in, and live chat or text-based messaging suits those who prefer to write or who need more flexible timing. Together these options provide practical ways to engage in therapy from different locations and schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Italian
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