About Frances
Frances "Tansie" Walker is a licensed mental health counselor with 34 years of experience helping people through hard times. She brings decades of clinical work and practical life experience to sessions. People come for help with stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, depression, addiction, and career or life transitions.
Her background blends counseling and coaching. She uses approaches that focus on how people attach to others, how thinking patterns shape feeling, and how emotions guide relationships.
How Frances works
That mix guides conversations about communication, commitment, and intimacy concerns. The result is a practical plan tailored to each person’s goals. Walker's style is straightforward and compassionate.
She works side by side with clients to set clear goals and try concrete steps between sessions. Sessions often include reflecting on patterns, practicing new ways to talk, and trying small behavior changes that can shift daily life. She also supports those coping with loss, trauma, and family changes.
That includes work on blended family issues, codependency, infidelity, jealousy, and non-monogamous relationship challenges. Addiction and compassion fatigue are other areas she addresses with practical strategies. Frances holds a Master of Science in Counseling and an Education Specialist in Family Systems.
She is a Florida licensed mental health counselor - LMHC. Her experience includes many years in counseling and time teaching at the college level. Sessions are offered in English and delivered online by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that fits the client's needs.
Frances lists 8 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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self esteem
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 34 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How Frances blends approaches for online care
Attachment-based work looks at how people form bonds and how those patterns affect current relationships. It helps with trust, abandonment fears, and repeating relationship cycles. Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's perspective and values, offering nonjudgmental listening and collaboration to find what matters most. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, examines thought patterns and behaviors and uses short practical exercises to ease symptoms like anxiety or low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then choose methods together. That collaborative process means techniques can shift over time as needs change.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video works well for in-depth conversation and practicing communication skills. Phone sessions are a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let people send short updates, get coaching between sessions, or fit support into a busy day. These options make it easier to continue work consistently while balancing daily life.
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