About Frances
Frances Marley is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Louisiana. She helps people who are overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, addiction struggles, trauma and abuse, eating concerns, and depression. Frances offers calm, practical support so people can take the first step toward change.
Her approach is direct and person-centered. Sessions aim to be a place to speak freely without judgment. She works with clients to build goals that fit daily life and personal values.
Background and approach
Progress is viewed as small, steady steps rather than sudden fixes. Frances uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. She also draws on acceptance and commitment therapy to help people clarify what matters to them and commit to those values.
Attachment-based ideas inform how she looks at relationship patterns and long-standing emotional responses. She combines practical skills and listening. That can mean learning tools for stress and emotion regulation, practicing ways to handle cravings or compulsive behavior, or talking through painful memories at a pace that feels manageable.
The focus is on what helps each person cope better day to day. Sessions are conversational and focused on real problems. Frances speaks English and French.
She brings nine years of clinical experience and aims to make therapy understandable and useful for people looking to change their lives.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Frances uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice patterns of thinking that keep them stuck and to practice new behaviors that produce different results. That approach is useful for anxiety, depression, and many stress-related problems. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is also part of her work and focuses on clarifying personal values, accepting difficult thoughts or feelings, and taking value-driven action even when emotions are uncomfortable.She draws on attachment-based ideas when relationship history shapes current reactions. That helps when old relationship patterns influence how someone responds to stress, closeness, or loss. Deciding which combination of approaches to use is a collaborative process. The therapist and client look at needs, goals, and preferences and adjust methods over time to find what works best.
Online therapy offers options that fit different days and needs. Video calls can mirror an in-person visit and allow face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is low or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when a shorter, written format helps someone reflect between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other parts of life.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- 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
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's 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)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English, French
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