About Francine
Francine Sherwood is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Florida with more than three decades of experience. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, depression, and major life changes. She speaks English and Hebrew and accepts international clients.
Francine draws on person-centered listening to understand each person's story before suggesting ways forward. She adapts sessions to fit what someone needs that week - sometimes that means practical problem solving, other times it means looking at how past events shape current feelings.
Background and approach
Her work often combines cognitive behavioral techniques to notice and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also uses narrative ideas to help people reframe painful memories and make new meaning from hard experiences. Clients come for short-term focused work and for longer journeys through complicated grief, trauma, chronic health concerns, caregiver stress, or isolation.
She pays attention to everyday pressures such as body image, control issues, and communication problems that can make coping harder. Sessions are shaped around respect, sensitivity, and practical steps. Francine aims to support and empower people to take steady steps toward feeling more capable and more in control of their lives.
Approaches that fit life online
Client-centered therapy places the person's perspective at the center of each session. It emphasizes listening, respect, and tailoring conversation to what matters most right now, which helps when someone needs practical support for anxiety or life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on noticing thoughts and behaviors and testing new ways of responding. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and depression because it gives clear skills to try between sessions.
Narrative Therapy helps people tell their stories differently, separating a person from the problem and opening space for new possibilities. This can be helpful after trauma, loss, or during major life transitions.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to goals and preferences, then suggest methods to try. Together they check what works and adjust the plan as needed.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let conversations feel closer to in-person meetings. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging are helpful for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or when a written record of reflections is useful. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work across different time zones.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 32 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Hebrew
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