About Francine
Francine Owens is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Tennessee with 28 years of experience. She focuses on anxiety, stress, trauma and abuse, bipolar disorder, and depression. Francine brings a calm, respectful presence to sessions and aims to help people find more satisfying ways to live.
Francine uses straightforward, practical methods to help clients change patterns that cause pain. She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thoughts and builds new skills to manage them.
Background and approach
Dialectical behavior ideas are used when stronger emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills are needed. She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people clarify values and take meaningful action. Client-centered work means sessions are shaped around each person's priorities and pace.
Her style is warm, compassionate, and nonjudgmental. Francine has a long history in clinical practice and independent practice leadership. That background informs how she structures therapy and supports people through transitions like divorce, caregiving, chronic illness, or loss.
She has experience working with adoption and foster care concerns, aging and geriatric issues, cancer-related stress, codependency, communication problems, coping after disasters, and grief-related themes. Francine also supports people dealing with guilt, shame, forgiveness, and questions about gender identity. Sessions can address practical everyday problems as well as the effects of past trauma.
Her goal is to help people make changes that lead to a more meaningful life and better daily functioning.
How therapy methods translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and finding direction after major life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like worry and low mood. It is practical and skills-based, which often fits well with online sessions. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and tailoring the conversation to the person's needs, helping build trust and clarity about goals.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Francine will work with each person to find approaches that fit their goals, preferences, and daily life. Sessions often mix methods - practicing skills in one week and reflecting on values the next - based on what helps most.
Online formats offer flexibility for people with busy schedules or mobility limits. Video calls allow full conversation and visual cues, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier during a brief break, and live chat or text-based messaging work for quick check-ins or when writing helps organize thoughts. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care and to use therapy tools between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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