About Francine
Dr. Francine Kleinpaste helps people manage stress and anxiety, relationship struggles, depression, trauma and abuse, and LGBT concerns. She uses straightforward conversation and practical tools to ease symptoms and find clearer direction.
Her approach is calm and nonjudgmental and she aims to make the first steps feel doable. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing from Pennsylvania and brings 22 years of experience. Sessions focus on what the person needs now, with short-term strategies and longer-term coping skills.
Background and approach
People can expect plain language and concrete suggestions rather than jargon. Kleinpaste draws on client-centered methods to follow each person’s pace. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and DBT skills to manage intense emotions and distress.
Trauma-focused work is offered for people recovering from abuse or violence, with attention to safety and stabilization first. Her practice includes work with sexual identity and alternative lifestyle concerns, body image, caregiver stress, communication problems, and mood or panic disorders. She also supports people dealing with grief, life purpose questions, and midlife transitions.
Clinical choices are tailored to each person’s goals and background. Sessions are conducted online in several formats so people can pick what fits their life. The aim is steady progress, clearer choices, and more reliable coping so daily life becomes easier to handle.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Dr. Kleinpaste commonly uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy in online sessions. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and shaping the work around the person's priorities so conversations move at a comfortable pace. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches specific techniques to change unhelpful patterns.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy for people who need skills to manage strong emotions and improve interpersonal effectiveness. DBT offers concrete tools for distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and clearer communication, which can be practiced between sessions and reviewed together.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before, then try methods that seem most likely to help. Plans are adjusted as progress unfolds so therapy stays relevant and useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversation, phone is useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum toward goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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