About Francis
Francis Clark is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 20 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar mood challenges, and addiction concerns. Francis uses straightforward methods to help clients move from feeling stuck to making practical changes.
She prefers an active, skills-based approach that targets thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - CBT - is a frequent tool because it helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new responses.
How Francis works
She also draws on mindfulness and solution-focused techniques to build coping skills and small steps toward goals. Francis aims to meet each person where they are and work at a pace that feels manageable. Sessions typically focus on clear goals such as improving communication, reducing anxiety, managing mood shifts, or addressing patterns like codependency and isolation.
She emphasizes building trust and better communication skills as part of lasting change. Her background includes a Master of Science in Counseling Psychology from William Carey University. Over two decades in the field, she has supported people dealing with trauma and abuse, grief, parenting challenges, career stress, chronic illness, and relationship difficulties.
This breadth of experience informs practical strategies for day-to-day life. When working together, Francis helps design a recovery plan tailored to each person's needs and priorities. The focus is on concrete steps and new skills that help someone move forward instead of staying stuck.
She invites people ready for change to begin that process with small, consistent actions.
Francis lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Francis works with
The areas below are the ones Francis selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Mississippi |
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Online support options
Practical approaches for online therapy and growth
Francis often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, a hands-on method that helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and test different behaviors. CBT can be useful for anxiety, depression, mood shifts, and patterns that keep someone stuck. She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques that teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal skills to manage intense feelings and reduce reactive behaviors.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Francis collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and situation. She listens to what matters most, then combines tools like CBT, DBT, mindfulness, or solution-focused strategies to match a client's needs and pace.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat support shorter check-ins or more frequent communication between sessions. This range of formats helps people fit therapy into busy schedules and daily life.
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