About Francesca
Francesca Polini is a UK-based counsellor who uses a blend of relational and psychodynamic approaches. She brings five years of clinical experience and works in English and Italian. Francesca focuses on stress, anxiety, relationships, trauma and abuse, self-esteem and depression.
She frames sessions around understanding how early relationships shape current patterns. That means looking at attachment, recurring behaviours, and the stories people tell about themselves. Practical conversation and reflective listening are core tools she uses to help people see patterns more clearly.
How Francesca works
Francesca also draws on Jungian ideas about meaning and symbols to help people access deeper parts of their inner life. Hypnotherapy may be offered as a short-term option to support change when appropriate. This combination aims to connect personal history with present-day coping skills.
Her background includes living and working in multiple countries, which informs a culturally aware approach to therapy. Francesca pays attention to how identity, culture and life transitions affect mood and relationships. She is registered with the BACP, which is the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. International clients can be supported. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and sessions are scheduled to suit the person seeking help.
Francesca lists 8 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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English, Italian |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Combining relational approaches for online therapy
Francesca uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early bonds shape current relationships and reactions; this helps when anxiety, trust or repeating patterns are a concern. She also works in a client-centred way, offering a listening, non-judgemental space where people lead the pace and focus of sessions. Psychodynamic and Jungian influences are used to notice recurring themes, dreams or symbols and link them to present difficulties and life transitions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Francesca will discuss goals, preferences and what feels helpful, then adapt methods as the relationship develops. That collaborative process means the plan can change over time if different techniques suit better.
Online therapy gives practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging offer shorter, written exchanges that can fit around work or childcare. These options make it easier to maintain therapy consistently despite busy lives.
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