About Francisco
Francisco Olmos is a California-licensed marriage and family therapist with ten years of clinical experience. He offers a calm, straightforward presence and helps people find practical ways to manage stress, anxiety, grief, and depression. Francisco speaks English and Spanish and meets with clients online by video, phone, chat, or text.
He focuses on creating a nonjudgmental space where people can say what they really think and feel. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented.
How Francisco works
Francisco helps people talk through relationship concerns, intimacy-related questions, parenting stress, career shifts, and challenges like ADHD or anger. Francisco uses several approaches to fit each person’s needs. He draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early bonds shape current relationships.
He uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and build new coping skills. Narrative work helps people reframe their stories and see different possibilities. Therapy often includes short practical exercises between sessions and down-to-earth discussion during meetings.
He offers coaching-style support for life changes, as well as deeper work for trauma, abandonment, or grief. Sessions move at a pace the client chooses and focus on tangible steps forward. For people worried about starting therapy, Francisco encourages small first steps: complete the intake, try a brief session, and adjust from there.
He aims to make the process clear and usable, so clients can see progress in everyday life.
Francisco lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Francisco works with
The areas below are the ones Francisco selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions use conversation to identify attachment styles and practice new ways of relating in everyday life, which helps with intimacy issues and family-related concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior; the therapist and client spot unhelpful thoughts and try small experiments to change them, useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Choosing an approach is part of the work together. Francisco will discuss goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped before, then try one method or combine them. That collaborative process lets the client test what feels most effective and adjust as therapy progresses. Online sessions offer practical benefits for many people. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when schedules or travel are difficult. Phone sessions can be lower-bandwidth and easier when video isn’t preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging make it simpler to check in between meetings or fit brief support into a busy day. These options aim to increase flexibility and make it easier to sustain progress over time.Start online instead of waiting
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