About Francesca
Francesca O'Connor is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with eight years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical steps people can use to feel steadier and more capable in daily life. Francesca aims to meet clients where they are and tailors conversations and plans to each person’s situation.
She helps people struggling with anxiety, depression, bipolar features, and stress. She also works on addictions, anger, self-esteem, and relationship or intimacy-related concerns.
How Francesca works
Parenting strain, career stress, sleeping problems, and compassion fatigue are other areas she addresses. Francesca uses therapy methods that emphasize action and understanding. Sessions often combine thinking tools and emotion-focused work.
She teaches skills you can practice between sessions so changes happen outside the therapy room. Her approach treats the whole person and respects life experience. She intentionally adapts language and pace to each client.
The goal is to build confidence and workable routines, not just talk about problems. Francesca welcomes people who want clear tools and steady support while they make changes. She offers guidance, coaching, and empathy during the process.
The work is collaborative and paced to what each person can manage.
Francesca lists 11 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.
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English, Ewe |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
How Francesca’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and then commit to actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and making life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and changing behaviors that keep problems going; it is practical for anxiety, depression, sleeping issues, and low mood. Emotionally-Focused Therapy centers on understanding and expressing emotions safely to improve connection and emotional regulation; it can help with relationship stress, intimacy-related issues, and processing trauma.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Francesca will collaborate with each person to see which methods fit their goals and preferences. Together they set priorities, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for this kind of work. Video calls let people practice skills in real time and have fuller conversations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a session needs to fit into a short break. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, coaching, and written reminders of strategies learned in sessions. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent while balancing everyday life.
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