About Frances
Dr. Frances Morrison helps people facing anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, and relationship strain. She is Dr.
Frances Morrison, an Illinois psychologist with five years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical steps people can use right away to feel steadier and more in control. She draws on several approaches to tailor sessions to each person's needs.
She uses evidence-based methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques and strategies from acceptance and commitment therapy to address thoughts, behaviors, and values.
Background and approach
She also uses attachment-informed ideas to look at how past relationships influence current patterns. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused. Dr.
Morrison listens for what matters most and helps set small, achievable goals. She teaches coping skills for intense emotions, problem-solving methods for day-to-day challenges, and ways to improve communication in close relationships. Her background is in clinical psychology and she holds the Illinois psychologist credential IL Psychologist 071.010035.
Over five years she has worked with people on topics including ADHD, grief, eating and sleeping concerns, caregiver stress, and identity-related issues. People who choose her often want clear tools they can practice between sessions. She encourages collaboration and checks in on progress regularly.
Before booking, readers should confirm current session options and scheduling details.
How therapeutic approaches shape online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice and accept difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to actions that match their values. It can help when anxiety, avoidance, or low mood prevent someone from living the life they want. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and teaches practical steps to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will review your goals and preferences and collaborate on which methods to try first. Choices may shift over time as progress is tracked and new needs arise.
The original profile does not specify online session formats, so confirm available options before booking. Online work can make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let people practice new skills in the settings where they live. Licensed professionals adapt exercises, homework, and emotion-regulation tools so they work well across different session arrangements.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's 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)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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