About Franklin
Franklin Cardona is an LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor) with 25 years of experience. He helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma, and relationship concerns. He speaks English and Spanish and practices from Tennessee while also working with international clients.
Franklin uses a straightforward, person-focused style in sessions. He pays attention to how early attachments shape current relationships and to patterns that keep people stuck. He draws on cognitive behavioral tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
Mindfulness techniques are used to build calm and present-moment focus. Franklin blends approaches to meet each person’s needs rather than following a single method. He may use EMDR for trauma work, combined with talk-based strategies and motivational interviewing when addiction or change is involved.
Sessions typically focus on practical steps and clear goals that fit daily life. Clients can expect a calm, respectful atmosphere and a focus on problem solving. Franklin’s background includes hospital and clinic work, and many years working with people who experienced trauma and post-traumatic stress.
That experience informs his work with people facing complicated grief, co-occurring issues, and life transitions. Work begins with a short intake and a discussion of goals. Therapy is collaborative - the therapist and client decide which approaches to try.
Sessions are offered via video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How therapy approaches adapt to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships influence current feelings and behavior. Online sessions can explore those patterns through conversation and exercises that help people notice relationship triggers and try new ways of relating.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In remote sessions this looks like identifying unhelpful thoughts, practicing alternative responses, and using brief between-session exercises to test new behaviors in daily life.
EMDR is sometimes used for trauma work and involves guided attention paired with focused processing of distressing memories. Over video or phone the therapist can adapt EMDR tools and follow a paced approach to help people reduce the intensity of traumatic memories.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist works together with each client to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. That collaborative planning can include trying one method for a while and adjusting if something else might work better.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how and when people connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions need less bandwidth, and live chat or text-based messaging can fit around busy days or provide shorter check-ins. These options make it easier to maintain momentum and to use techniques in real-life settings between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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