About Edlaine
Edlaine Franco is an ACA counsellor with 13 years of experience in Brazil and Australia. She goes by Laine and aims to make people feel heard and respected in sessions. Laine offers a warm, empathetic style.
She tailors each conversation to the person in front of her and focuses on practical next steps. She helps people who are struggling with stress and anxiety, low self-esteem, relationship tensions, parenting pressures and life changes.
How Edlaine works
Her work draws on a multicultural outlook shaped by practice in two countries and by fluency in English and Portuguese. This background helps her understand how culture, identity and family history can affect how people feel and relate.
Over more than a decade she has supported people through concerns such as abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, blended family challenges, caregiver stress, communication and control problems, and separation or divorce. She also addresses guilt, shame, isolation and questions about life purpose and midlife changes. Sessions are person-focused and practical.
Laine aims to listen first, then help clients find clearer ways to cope, communicate and move forward. She brings patience and cultural awareness to each conversation. People can meet with her online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging.
Her practice uses a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
What Edlaine works with
The areas below are the ones Edlaine selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | ACA |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English, Portuguese |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Australia |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Edlaine draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on listening, skill building and practical change. One approach emphasises talking through feelings and identifying patterns that keep problems going, which helps with anxiety, relationship issues and low self-esteem. Another approach focuses on building coping skills and routines to manage stress and life transitions, offering simple exercises clients can use between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, then adapt methods to fit each person’s needs in a collaborative way. Clients help shape the focus and pace of therapy throughout the process.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, giving more ways to connect. Video is good for deeper conversations and non-verbal cues, phone sessions can fit a short break at work or when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging works well for quick check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make counselling more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives.
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