About Francine
Francine Anderson helps people manage stress, anxiety, mood disorders, and relationship concerns. She is an Illinois LCPC with 15 years of experience guiding clients through depression, bipolar symptoms, ADHD challenges, and life transitions. She writes plainly and keeps sessions focused on practical steps.
She works with each person to build a plan that fits their life. Conversations are respectful and nonjudgmental. She listens first, then offers tools drawn from cognitive behavioral and mindfulness ideas when they fit.
Background and approach
Sessions often center on short-term goals and problem solving. That can mean breaking big problems into smaller steps. It can mean practicing new ways to cope with anger, improve sleep, or handle panic attacks.
Francine pays attention to relationship patterns and communication problems. She helps people who are dealing with blended-family issues, aging and geriatric concerns, or the stress of life changes. She also supports work on guilt, forgiveness, self-esteem, and discovering life purpose.
Her approach is collaborative and straightforward. She adapts methods like client-centered listening, CBT skills, mindfulness practices, and solution-focused techniques to match a person’s needs. Francine encourages realistic, do-able changes and checks progress along the way.
Approaches you can use in online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding. The therapist follows your lead, reflects what you say, and helps you identify what matters most. This approach is useful when someone needs acceptance and a space to make sense of difficult feelings.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. Sessions teach concrete skills like spotting unhelpful thinking, testing beliefs, and trying new behaviors to reduce anxiety or depression symptoms.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with you to pick methods that match your goals, needs, and preferences. If something doesn’t feel helpful, adjustments are made together so the plan stays useful.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let you talk face to face, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat can work for quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to keep momentum between appointments.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English