About Francoise
Francoise Nicoloff is an AHPRA-registered counsellor with over 40 years of experience supporting people who feel overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. She speaks English and French and aims to make first steps feel manageable. Francoise meets people where they are and treats them with sensitivity and respect.
She helps with common worries like low self-esteem, depression and sleeping problems. She also supports those facing relationship strain, parenting stresses, grief, and anger.
Background and approach
Francoise works with people dealing with trauma and abuse, mood difficulties including bipolar, and life transitions that feel hard to navigate. Her style is conversational and practical. Sessions are shaped around what the client needs that week.
Francoise uses client-centred conversation to build trust, mindfulness to develop steady attention, and solution-focused work for small, achievable changes. Francoise explains options plainly and tailors the plan to each person. She draws on decades of practice to offer calm guidance and simple tools for coping.
The aim is to make progress that fits into everyday life. People can expect straightforward explanations and collaborative planning. Francoise encourages courage and small steps rather than quick fixes.
Her approach suits anyone wanting steady support for anxiety, stress or related concerns.
How Francoise’s approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on understanding each person’s goals and concerns. The therapist listens closely and follows the client’s lead to build trust and clarity. This approach can help when anxiety or low confidence makes it hard to know what step to take next.Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity. It helps with sleep problems, stress and overwhelming emotions by training calm attention and noticing patterns as they arise.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Francoise will discuss the options and choose methods together with the client based on needs, goals and preferences. That collaboration helps ensure the plan fits daily life and feels realistic.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper interaction. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or suit lower bandwidth situations. Live chat and text-based messaging let people share thoughts between sessions or check progress without scheduling a call. These options make it easier to fit counselling around work, family and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, French
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