About Frank
Frank Centonze uses practical, evidence-based approaches to help people manage stress and painful emotions. He blends goal-focused methods with a warm, person-centered stance. Frank is a Licensed Professional Counselor, or LPC, practicing in Texas with 15 years of experience.
He works with a wide range of concerns including anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma and grief. He also supports people dealing with relationship problems, anger, low self-esteem, and hard life changes. Sessions focus on skills that can be used between appointments as well as clearer ways to understand patterns that keep someone stuck.
Background and approach
Frank draws on approaches such as acceptance and commitment methods, attachment-focused work, cognitive behavior strategies, and dialectical behavior tools. That mix lets him tailor the work to what a person needs right now. Treatment plans are practical and paced to match a person’s goals and daily life.
Many clients come for help repairing relationships or sorting family of origin issues, abandonment or attachment wounds, and communication problems. He also has experience with first responder stress, caregiver strain, and co-occurring substance concerns. Frank pays attention to how mood conditions like bipolar disorder or disruptive mood dysregulation can affect everyday coping.
His approach aims to build useful habits and clearer choices. He encourages steady steps and practices people can try between sessions. The focus is on reducing distress and increasing meaningful activity over time.
How therapeutic methods translate to online care
Frank uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and then choose actions that match their values. That approach can help with anxiety, depression, substance use struggles, and navigating life changes. He also uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships shape expectations and patterns in current relationships, which can be useful for communication problems, abandonment wounds, and family of origin issues.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Frank will discuss goals and preferences and then try methods that fit the person's needs. Sessions are collaborative, and strategies are adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy with Frank is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people work face-to-face when that feels helpful. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits better into a busy day. Live chat and text can support quick skill practice, daily check-ins, or continued support between longer sessions. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into everyday life.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English