About Frances
Frances Marley is a licensed professional counselor in Louisiana with nine years of clinical experience. She helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, eating concerns, and depression. She aims to make it easier to take that first step toward change by offering steady support and clear guidance.
Her work focuses on creating an open, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about difficult thoughts and feelings.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and practical. She listens, reflects, and helps people build skills they can use between sessions. Frances blends several approaches to fit each person’s needs.
She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and ACT - Acceptance and Commitment Therapy - to help people clarify their values and take actions that matter to them. She also draws on attachment-based and client-centered ideas to strengthen relationships with self and others.
Over nine years she has supported people with related concerns such as body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness, commitment and communication issues, and challenges tied to adoption or abandonment. She works with issues across a wide range of life contexts and health concerns. Sessions are offered in English and French.
Frances uses a straightforward approach that balances emotional exploration with concrete tools for coping and change.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people name what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. It focuses on noticing thoughts without getting stuck and building committed action. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and teaches concrete techniques for reducing anxiety and changing habits. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people build more supported ways of relating to themselves and others.Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. The therapist will work together with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and comfort level. That collaboration helps tailor sessions so tools and homework match what the client wants to accomplish.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video is useful for in-depth work and face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text are good for brief check-ins, daily skill practice, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options aim to increase flexibility and help people access consistent support.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English, French