About Frances
Frances Recchi is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 34 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, mood concerns, addictions, and relationship problems. She focuses on practical steps that reduce distress and help people feel steadier in daily life. She uses a person-centered style that puts the client's experience first.
Sessions often begin with straightforward listening and reflection to build trust. From there she offers skills and strategies drawn from cognitive behavioral approaches and dialectical behavior tools to manage overwhelming emotions and upsetting thoughts.
Background and approach
Frances also integrates trauma-focused and psychodynamic ideas when they fit the situation. That can mean looking at how past losses or attachment patterns shape current choices. It can also mean working gently through memories and reactions tied to trauma so they lose some of their hold.
Her work addresses a wide range of concerns including depression, bipolar symptoms, PTSD and dissociation, substance and eating issues, anger and intimacy-related problems, grief, caregiver stress, and identity concerns including LGBT issues. She pays attention to life transitions and career or communication patterns that keep people stuck.
People who choose Frances can expect calm, direct support and practical tools to try between sessions. She offers work that balances empathy with clear steps toward change. Sessions are offered in English and she meets with clients virtually using multiple formats.
How her approaches work online and what to expect
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so people feel understood; it emphasizes acceptance and helps build a steady relationship to work from. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and teaches clear strategies to change them, which can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and communication skills to manage intense feelings and improve relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Frances will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide whether to emphasize skills practice, explore past patterns, or combine methods based on what helps most.
Online sessions can include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video is useful for face-to-face connection; phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging allow ongoing support and brief check-ins between longer sessions. These options give flexibility while still allowing for meaningful therapeutic work.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 34 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English