About Francesca
Francesca Cochard is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Pennsylvania. She draws on six years of clinical experience to help people manage stress, anxiety, mood challenges, and trauma-related concerns. Her approach starts with a client-centered stance.
Francesca listens first and follows each person's pace. She helps clients notice patterns, learn practical skills, and make changes that fit their daily lives. She uses practical techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to help with thoughts, emotions, and behavior.
How Francesca works
Francesca also incorporates Attachment-Based methods and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) when those fit the goals. She adapts tools to address sleep, eating, parenting stress, relationship and intimacy worries, and addiction-related concerns. Francesca has experience with issues that often overlap, such as grief, anger, ADHD, bipolar disorder, and coping with life changes.
Her work has included settings involving youth in the juvenile justice system and foster care, which informs how she supports people facing complex family and trauma histories. Sessions are collaborative and practical. Francesca focuses on short, usable strategies and on building awareness that helps people make steady progress.
She respects cultural identities and tailors care to each person's background and life circumstances.
Francesca lists 14 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Francesca works with
The areas below are the ones Francesca selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- 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
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on clarifying values and taking small steps toward a meaningful life, which can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It supports building safer ways to relate and can help with attachment issues, intimacy-related struggles, and family challenges.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Francesca works collaboratively to match methods to each person's goals and preferences. She listens to what matters most and adjusts techniques as progress and needs change.
Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quick check-ins, and text-based messaging works well for short reflections between sessions. These formats help people stay consistent, try skills in real time, and maintain contact when schedules or locations change.
Start online instead of waiting
Our partner service asks a few questions about what you are looking for and matches you with a therapist for sessions from home.
Explore online therapy optionsWe will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.
Common questions
What concerns does Francesca help with?
What is her therapeutic style?
How much clinical experience does she have?
What credentials and location are listed?
Which languages are sessions offered in?
What session formats are available?
How does payment and cost work?
How do I begin working with her?
A practical next step
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.
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you. Entries are not assessed or endorsed by this directory.
Other entries for stress, anxiety
Supportive LCSW helping people build strength and clarity
Practical, trauma-aware therapy for everyday life
Practical, relational therapy for life transitions