About Francesca
Francesca Cochard is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Pennsylvania who focuses on practical, down-to-earth therapy. She uses a client-centered approach and works with people facing stress, anxiety, mood concerns, grief, and relationship or parenting strains. Francesca aims to meet clients where they are and tailor support to each person's needs.
She has six years of experience in mental health. That experience includes work with youth in challenging settings and with people managing trauma, anger, addictions, and attention differences.
Background and approach
Francesca helps clients untangle patterns that get in the way of daily life and relationships. Her work is guided by client-centered and humanistic values. She treats clients as the experts on their lives and helps them build awareness and make changes that fit their culture and lifestyle.
Therapy focuses on what matters most to the client and proceeds at a pace that feels manageable. Francesca draws on several evidence-informed methods, including cognitive behavioral techniques, acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-focused work, and skills from dialectical behavior approaches. She adapts tools to match each person’s goals, whether the need is emotion regulation, communication, or coping with loss.
Sessions address a wide range of concerns such as parenting stress, body image, sleep and eating issues, coping with life changes, and co-occurring mood conditions. Francesca emphasizes practical steps clients can use between sessions to notice progress and build resilience.
How Francesca’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then act in ways that match their values; it can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns of relating and emotional connection, which can help with intimacy issues, relationship conflicts, and attachment concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns, which is helpful for anxiety, mood problems, and stress management.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. Francesca will work with each person to figure out which methods fit their goals and preferences. She adapts techniques over time based on what is working and what the client wants to change, so the plan can shift as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Clients can meet by video for a full session, use phone calls when bandwidth or camera use is impractical, or rely on live chat and text messaging for shorter check-ins and ongoing support between scheduled appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or school and let therapists deliver the same practical skills and collaborative planning used in office sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- 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
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces 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)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English