About Francesco
Francesco Rizzo is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, ADHD, depression, and relationship strain. He practices in New Jersey and brings 13 years of clinical experience to sessions. Francesco aims to make therapy straightforward and practical for people juggling busy lives.
He uses clear, collaborative conversation to uncover patterns that keep problems repeating. Sessions focus on improving communication, managing overwhelming feelings, and building everyday strategies for sleep, work, and parenting challenges.
Background and approach
Francesco also supports people coping with grief, trauma, and identity-related concerns for LGBTQ people. His approach mixes talk therapy with practical tools. He draws on cognitive behavioral methods to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
He uses client-centered techniques to follow each person’s pace and priorities. Emotionally-focused ideas guide work on attachment and closeness issues, and Gottman-informed practices shape conversations about relationship repair. Mindfulness skills are added when calming the nervous system or increasing present-moment attention feels useful.
Francesco works step-by-step to fit methods to the person in front of him. People can expect a supportive, nonjudgmental tone and concrete steps between sessions. Francesco helps clients set realistic goals and track small improvements.
He aims to make therapy feel useful from the first weeks onward.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and following the client's priorities; online sessions let the therapist reflect what matters most and adapt the pace to each person. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, offers practical strategies for shifting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and those techniques can be taught and practiced during video or phone sessions. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people recognize and change patterns in close relationships and can guide conversations about attachment and repair during virtual meetings.Finding the right approach is a team effort. Francesco works collaboratively to decide which methods fit a client's goals and comfort level. He checks in about how techniques are working and adjusts plans based on feedback so the work stays relevant and doable.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls are useful for full sessions that include visual cues, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging suit brief check-ins or homework support. These options help people fit therapy into work, family, and daily life while keeping treatment consistent and accessible.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- 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
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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