About Francesca
Francesca Cochard is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Pennsylvania. She has six years of experience in mental health and focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, mood concerns, and ADHD. She aims to meet people where they are and build plans that fit daily life.
Her work draws on client-centered and attachment-based ideas that emphasize the person's own goals. Sessions center on clear steps to reduce symptoms, improve relationships, and manage strong emotions like anger or grief.
Background and approach
She uses cognitive-behavioral techniques to change unhelpful patterns and acceptance-based strategies to help people live by their values. Francesca has experience supporting people affected by trauma, foster care and the juvenile justice system. That background informs how she approaches safety, trust, and pacing in sessions.
She also helps with parenting strain, sleep and eating concerns, addictions, and coping with major life changes. She pays attention to each person's cultural background and life situation when shaping a plan. Treatment is individualized and may combine talk work, skills practice, and behavioral experiments.
The focus is on practical tools that can be used between sessions. Francesca offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and international clients may participate.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and appointments are scheduled from there.
How Francesca’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small committed steps toward them. It helps when worry or avoidance keeps someone from living the life they want. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors, teaching practical skills to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and change unhelpful patterns. Attachment-Based Therapy concentrates on how early relationships shape current bonds and helps rebuild trust and emotional connection.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Francesca will discuss goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. Clients often try a mix of approaches so the work fits their needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face work for skills practice and emotion-focused conversations. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or useful when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging work well for brief notes, in-the-moment support, and ongoing skill reminders. These options help people keep continuity of care while juggling work, school, or family responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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