About Frances
Frances Recchi is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 34 years of experience helping people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship concerns. She speaks English and works with adults on issues like bipolar disorder, addictions, grief, self-esteem, and ADHD. Frances focuses on practical steps people can use in daily life.
Her approach centers on building a trusting connection first. Frances offers a listening, nonjudgmental presence and helps people name what they are feeling.
How Frances works
She blends supportive conversation with goal-focused tools to reduce intense emotions and unhelpful patterns. She draws on client-centered methods that emphasize the person’s strengths and choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ideas are used to spot and change thinking patterns that fuel anxiety and depression.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are taught for managing strong emotions and improving coping. For people with trauma, Frances uses trauma-focused and psychodynamic ideas to understand how early experiences shape current reactions. She helps people make sense of difficult memories and reduce their day-to-day impact.
Sessions include practical coping strategies as well as attention to deeper emotional patterns. Frances offers straightforward, compassionate guidance for adults working through life transitions, career stress, intimacy concerns, or caregiver strain. She aims to help people move through stuck places toward clearer choices and more satisfying daily life.
Frances lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Frances works with
The areas below are the ones Frances selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 34 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Massachusetts |
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Online support options
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, accepting relationship where the person leads the pace and topics. Online sessions let that listening-first style continue through conversation that centers the client’s goals and values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing thoughts and behaviors that worsen symptoms; online work often includes brief skill-building exercises and real-time practice between sessions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improved communication, which can be practiced during video calls or reinforced with messages between appointments.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Frances will collaborate with each person to clarify goals and try methods that fit their needs and preferences. Together they will adjust techniques over time based on what helps most and what feels manageable.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls provide face-to-face conversation for in-depth work, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier during busy days, and live chat or text-based messaging supports short check-ins or skill coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to keep momentum, fit therapy around work and caregiving, and practice new skills in everyday situations.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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