About Francesca
Francesca Palazzolo helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship strain and trauma. She also supports clients facing issues with intimacy, grief, eating and sleeping, anger, self-esteem and major life changes. Francesca is a PACFA counsellor with ten years of experience in Australia.
Her approach is warm and straightforward. She aims to make sessions a place where thoughts and feelings can be said out loud without judgement. Francesca listens closely and helps people notice patterns that keep causing pain or getting in the way of desired change.
How Francesca works
Therapy with her mixes practical skills and reflective work. She uses tools from cognitive behavioural approaches together with acceptance-focused and attachment-based ideas. This helps clients build clearer boundaries, manage strong emotions, and make choices that match their values.
Sessions tend to be collaborative and paced to the person’s needs. Francesca offers simple behavioural strategies for managing stress and anxiety alongside deeper work around relationships and past hurts. She also provides support for addiction-related and eating concerns with an emphasis on small, realistic steps.
People come for help with career stress, communication problems, codependency and the fallout from separation or domestic violence. Francesca combines empathy with direct feedback so clients can try new responses and notice what works. If someone is unsure where to start she encourages a short conversation to clarify goals and preferred ways of working.
Francesca lists 12 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)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | PACFA |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Australia |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing inner experience and choosing actions that match personal values. It helps people stuck in avoidance or repetitive worry by teaching simple acceptance and committed action skills. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) breaks down how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and offers practical experiments to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for panic, phobias, low mood and many stress-related problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Francesca will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and suggest which methods to try. This is a collaborative process and methods can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when meeting in person is difficult. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth or visual focus is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging suit short check-ins, recording thoughts between sessions, or working through brief exercises. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving and other commitments while still working with an appropriately qualified therapist.
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