About Francine
Francine Owens is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 28 years of practice based in Tennessee. She focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, bipolar disorder, and depression. Her work aims to help people reduce distress and build more livable days.
Francine uses a warm, respectful, and nonjudgmental manner in sessions. She listens first and helps people name what matters to them. From there she offers concrete steps and skills to try between meetings.
Background and approach
Her approach mixes practical therapy methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques and emotion-focused work. She also draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to help people notice what matters and take values-based action. Sessions often include skill practice, gentle reflection, and problem-solving tailored to each person’s situation.
Francine has worked across many clinical settings and brings nearly three decades of experience to her independent practice. She supports people facing medical stress, caregiving strain, grief from divorce or separation, and challenges tied to adoption or aging. She also assists people dealing with chronic illness, cancer, and complicated family dynamics.
People who come to her for help often need assistance coping with guilt, shame, control issues, or codependency. She also provides care-informed support around gender dysphoria and forgiveness work. Francine offers services in English and accepts international clients by arrangement.
Evidence-based approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) invites people to notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values; it can help when anxiety or low mood keep someone from living the life they want. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening with empathy and respect so a person feels heard and can find their own solutions; it works well for rebuilding trust in oneself and clarifying goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete strategies to shift unhelpful patterns, which can reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms.Finding the right fit is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try different techniques, and adjust the approach based on how well methods are working for the person. Together they decide which strategies to keep, adapt, or set aside as progress unfolds.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase convenience. Video is useful for in-depth work and teaching skills, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can allow quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing contact and brief reflections between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to continue care when travel or scheduling is a challenge.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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