About Francesca
Francesca Palazzolo is a PACFA counsellor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship difficulties and the impact of trauma. She listens without judgement and aims to make the first step into therapy less overwhelming for someone who is worried or unsure. Francesca keeps sessions simple and direct.
She creates a calm space where people can talk about thoughts, feelings and behaviours. Practical tools and clear steps are offered so clients can try things between sessions and build on small successes.
Background and approach
Her approach draws on a blend of methods including cognitive and acceptance-based strategies. That means she helps people notice unhelpful thinking patterns, practise new responses, and clarify values to guide change. Attachment-informed work looks at how early connections shape current relationships and intimacy issues.
Over a decade in practice has included work with grief, eating and sleeping difficulties, anger, low self-esteem and career stress. Francesca also supports people dealing with abandonment, attachment concerns, blended family matters, caregiver stress and substance issues. Sessions are available in English and take place online by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging.
The subscription for sessions can be cancelled at any time. Francesca works from Australia and does not accept international clients.
How Francesca’s approaches suit online therapy
Francesca uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people name what matters to them and take small steps that match their values. ACT is useful for anxiety, avoidance and living with difficult feelings by focusing on meaningful action rather than fighting every thought.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationship patterns affect current trust, intimacy and communication. This helps people understand recurring relationship problems and practise new ways of connecting that feel safer and more satisfying.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Francesca will discuss options and adapt methods to suit each person’s goals and preferences, making choices collaboratively rather than imposing a single method.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging to give flexibility. Video works well for in-depth conversations and non-verbal cues. Phone is useful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text are suited to shorter reflections, quick coping strategies or when people prefer not to use audio or video. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- 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)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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