About Francesca
Francesca Redden helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief or big life changes. She meets people where they are and focuses on building safety in the body and practical steps for moving forward. Francesca has ten years of professional experience and holds PACFA credentialing in Australia.
She uses a person-centred approach that treats the client as the expert in their story. That means sessions are shaped around each person's needs, goals and pace rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
How Francesca works
Francesca also draws on somatic methods to help people notice and work with bodily reactions to stress and trauma. Mindfulness practices and parts work are woven into sessions when helpful. These tools support someone to develop more self-compassion, manage difficult emotions and build inner resources.
Francesca offers Trauma-Focused Therapy elements for people affected by past harm or abuse. Her work addresses common concerns such as self-esteem, intimacy-related issues, parenting strain, career stress and anger. She also supports people coping with chronic illness, caregiver stress, body image and relationship endings.
The focus is on small, achievable changes that reduce distress and increase a sense of control. Francesca views therapy as a collaborative process. She helps people explore what feels right, try practical strategies and notice what shifts over time.
Taking the first step can feel hard, and she aims to make that step easier to take.
Francesca lists 5 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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace 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
How somatic and person-centred work translates online
Francesca uses somatic therapy to help people notice how stress and trauma show up in the body. Online sessions can include guided awareness of breath, posture and bodily sensations to build calm and resources for coping. She also applies Trauma-Focused Therapy techniques that gently address past harm while keeping each person's safety and pacing central.She blends these with a client-centred way of working, which means the choice of approach is collaborative. The therapist will check in about what feels useful, try different techniques together and adapt methods to match your goals and comfort level. Finding the right mix is part of the work rather than a one-off decision.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for guided exercises and real-time interaction, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging supports shorter check-ins or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy around work, caregiving and other commitments while continuing consistent care.
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A practical next step
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