About Frances
Frances Berniger is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 20 years of experience. She focuses on helping adults manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and life changes. Her style is practical and down-to-earth, with short-term tools and steady support for real problems.
Frances began her career as a special education teacher for sixteen years before moving into counseling. That background shaped a straightforward, skills-based approach. She often helps people who are coping with trauma, addiction, relationship and intimacy issues, and the effects of living with someone who has a personality disorder such as narcissism.
Background and approach
In sessions she uses client-centered listening alongside Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and mindfulness techniques. She also draws on solution-focused and motivational interviewing ideas to set clear goals and support action between meetings. The work balances emotional processing with new habits and practical strategies.
Sessions tend to be collaborative and paced to the person’s needs. Frances encourages people to build skills for managing anger, attention challenges like ADHD, compassion fatigue, or caregiver stress. She also supports those dealing with career pressure, isolation, family of origin problems, and forgiveness or guilt concerns.
Frances practices in Texas and offers several online formats. She aims to help people leave therapy with tools they can use right away and a clearer sense of direction.
Practical approaches for online counseling
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person’s experience. The therapist follows the person’s lead, reflects what they say, and helps them find their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches concrete techniques to change them. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, anger, and many everyday struggles.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Frances will talk with the person about goals and preferences and then try methods that fit. That collaborative process means techniques can be adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls are helpful when visual connection matters, while phone sessions work well if bandwidth is limited or someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging can fit short check-ins, brief coaching between sessions, or people who communicate better in writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to use the approaches above in ways that match each person’s routine and needs.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, Texas
- Languages
- English