About Francesca
Francesca Cochard is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Pennsylvania. She draws on six years in the mental health field to help people facing stress, anxiety, mood concerns, and trauma-related difficulties. Francesca often meets people who are coping with grief, anger, addiction, relationship and intimacy issues, sleep or eating troubles, and parenting strain.
She also supports those managing ADHD, bipolar symptoms, or major life changes. Her background includes work with at-risk youth and children who have experienced foster care or trauma.
Background and approach
Her approach centers on the person in front of her. She follows a client-centered, humanistic frame that treats each person as the expert in their life. In session she listens first, then works together with clients to increase self-awareness and make practical changes that fit daily life and values.
She uses tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Attachment-Based methods. Those tools are adapted to the concerns brought to therapy, whether anxiety, family conflict, or coping with painful events. Francesca pays attention to how culture, identity, and life circumstances shape each person’s experience.
She begins where someone is and tailors the plan to their goals. The result aims to be useful, grounded, and doable between sessions.
How Francesca’s Approaches Translate to Online Care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small, value-driven steps despite difficult thoughts or feelings. It is useful for anxiety, low mood, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors. It is commonly used for anxiety, sleep or eating concerns, and mood disorders. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people build more supported ways of relating and coping.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and what techniques feel most comfortable. Together they decide whether to focus on skills from CBT, mindfulness and values from ACT, or relational work from attachment-focused methods and adapt as needed.
Online sessions can fit many schedules and preferences. Video calls let the therapist and client use visual cues for role-play, coaching, and skill practice. Phone sessions work well when a shorter check-in or lower bandwidth is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can support quick check-ins, homework review, or regular encouragement between live sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while juggling work, school, or caregiving duties.
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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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