About Francesca
Francesca O'Connor is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas with eight years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with addictions, anxiety, depression, bipolar concerns, and the strain of life changes. She meets clients where they are and aims to make the first steps feel manageable.
Her work emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion. Sessions are shaped to each person's needs so conversation and strategies match real-life circumstances.
Background and approach
She teaches practical skills that people can practice between sessions to create small, steady changes. Francesca uses a mix of therapy methods to fit different problems and preferences. She draws from cognitive-behavioral ideas to challenge unhelpful thinking and from acceptance-based methods to reduce struggle with difficult feelings.
She also uses client-centered listening so people feel heard while they work on goals. Her practice supports a wide range of concerns including relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, career stress, sleep troubles, and trauma and abuse. She also helps with ADHD, compassion fatigue, and caregiver stress.
Sessions can address both immediate coping and longer-term patterns. Francesca offers services in English and Ewe and works with international clients as well. She aims to empower people to build confidence, improve communication, and regain a sense of control over daily life.
How Francesca’s Approaches Work Online
Francesca draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without letting those experiences dictate actions. ACT is often useful for anxiety, stress, and patterns that get in the way of meaningful goals. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thinking and to train practical skills for changing behavior and improving mood. CBT supports work on sleep, depression, and anxiety by breaking problems into manageable steps.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Francesca will work with each person to match methods to their needs, goals, and what feels most useful. Early sessions focus on understanding the client’s priorities so therapy stays focused and practical.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video lets people use face-to-face interaction for deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging support shorter check-ins, skill practice between sessions, or ongoing coaching-style contact. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Ewe