About Francesca
Francesca O'Connor is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with eight years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical help for people dealing with stress, anxiety, mood struggles, addiction, and ADHD. Francesca aims to make the first steps toward change feel possible and straightforward.
She works in a respectful, compassionate way and adapts sessions to each person's needs. Conversations focus on concrete skills and everyday strategies that can be practiced between meetings.
Background and approach
The goal is to build tools that make daily life easier and more manageable. Francesca uses several therapeutic approaches to match what a person needs right now. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address thoughts and behaviors.
Emotionally-Focused and Dialectical Behavior Therapy ideas guide work on relationships and emotional regulation. Clients can expect a collaborative tone in sessions. Francesca helps set clear, achievable goals and checks progress as therapy continues.
She emphasizes learning skills through practice rather than only talking about problems. Her work covers a wide range of concerns including depression, bipolar mood issues, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, sleep troubles, parenting stresses, career concerns, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people navigating identity and LGBT-related concerns and a variety of personality and life-stage challenges.
Francesca speaks English and Ewe and offers a straightforward, skill-focused style for people ready to try new approaches and make steady changes.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice their thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thinking and build more effective habits through practical exercises and homework. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and sleep problems. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on understanding emotions in relationships and improving connection and communication.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Francesca will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Over a few sessions she helps pick techniques to try and adjusts the plan as progress is made, so the process stays collaborative and goal-oriented.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care fit into busy lives. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is good for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing skill practice between sessions. These options provide flexibility for scheduling, different communication styles, and varied daily routines.
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What this therapist 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
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