About Francesca
Francesca Dolan Wills draws on six years of professional experience to support people through stressful life events and emotional challenges. She practises from the United Kingdom and offers a calm, open approach that helps people name what matters and take small, manageable steps forward. Her earlier career included eight years as a work and employment coach for the UK government.
That background informs practical conversations about work, careers and life transitions.
How Francesca works
She has also worked with hospices, a pregnancy loss charity, cancer support services and public-sector employers such as the NHS and the police. Francesca helps people dealing with grief and loss, anxiety and stress, depression, relationship and family concerns, and challenges around self-esteem and intimacy.
She also supports those facing fertility and pregnancy loss, chronic illness or pain, caregiving strain, and compassion fatigue. Coaching-style work is available for career decisions and practical next steps. Her style is warm and non-judgemental.
Sessions focus on what a person wants to change and on simple, actionable ideas to try between meetings. Mindfulness, emotionally-focused conversation and solution-focused planning are woven into sessions when useful. Francesca is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
She offers video, phone, live chat and text-based sessions, and she works with people from a range of cultural and religious backgrounds. To begin, follow the site’s Start Therapy button and complete the short matching questionnaire.
Francesca lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
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.
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- ADHD
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Francesca’s approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person’s experience. The therapist offers empathic attention and helps people find their own answers, which can be especially useful for grief, relationship worries and low self-esteem.Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) concentrates on emotions and the patterns they create in close relationships. In sessions this means naming feelings, tracking interaction patterns and trying new ways of responding to reduce distress and deepen connection.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Francesca will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That choice can shift over time as needs change and new issues come up.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging, giving flexibility for busy schedules and different circumstances. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers short check-ins and text messaging can suit ongoing support between meetings. Together these options make therapy easier to fit around work, caregiving and other commitments, while keeping the focus on practical steps and emotional clarity.
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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.
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