About Francesca
Francesca Redden is a PACFA counsellor with ten years' experience helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief or change. She speaks plainly and works to make sessions feel manageable. Many come when trauma, relationship pain or body-based reactions are making day-to-day life harder.
Francesca uses a person-centred approach. She listens first and helps clients name what is most urgent. From there she introduces practical ways to calm the nervous system and build steady coping skills.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to strengthen what a person already has rather than impose a fixed plan. Her work draws on somatic methods that pay attention to physical sensations and nervous system responses. These techniques are used alongside mindfulness and trauma-focused strategies to ease stuck patterns in the body and mind.
Francesca also uses Internal Family Systems ideas to help people understand conflicting parts of themselves. Typical concerns she helps with include anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem, parenting stress and difficulties with intimacy. She also supports people facing career change, chronic illness, caregiver stress and family-of-origin issues.
Her style is steady, patient and practical. Francesca sees the first appointment as a chance to make a safe plan together. She helps clients set realistic goals and learn simple tools to reduce overwhelm.
Reaching out is framed as a practical step rather than a big overhaul, and she stays focused on achievable change.
Online approaches that support body and trauma work
Francesca combines somatic methods with mindfulness and trauma-focused ideas to help people feel steadier in their bodies and minds. Somatic therapy pays attention to physical sensations and nervous system patterns and can help when stress or past hurt shows up as tension, numbness or agitation. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and increase moment-to-moment calm. Trauma-focused work helps to gently process past events while supporting safety and resource-building in the present.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of therapy. Francesca treats this as a collaborative process and will check in about what feels useful. Together clients set goals and experiment with techniques to see what helps with their specific stress, anxiety or trauma responses.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversation and somatic noticing, phone can fit when bandwidth is limited or hands-free is needed, and chat or messaging can work for brief check-ins or when writing helps clarify thoughts. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, school or caregiving commitments.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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