About Francesca
Francesca Corea helps people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and life changes. She also supports those dealing with addiction, grief, trauma and abuse, anger, career concerns, bipolar challenges, and compassion fatigue. Francesca is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, working from Florida with nine years of experience.
Her style is warm and direct. She focuses on practical steps clients can try between sessions.
Background and approach
Conversations aim to be straightforward so people can notice small changes quickly. Francesca blends listening with concrete suggestions rather than long lectures. Sessions commonly use tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and change behaviors.
She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills to manage strong emotions and mindfulness practices to reduce stress. Motivational interviewing helps when someone feels stuck or unsure about making changes. Francesca pays attention to patterns that come from family of origin issues, abandonment, codependency, and communication problems.
She also addresses immigration issues, guilt and shame, impulsivity, and questions about life purpose. Her work includes support for women and young adults navigating transitions and identity concerns. People can expect collaborative work with homework or skills practice when useful.
Francesca aims to create a space that feels genuine and respectful while helping clients build clearer coping strategies and steadier emotional balance.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Francesca often uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with more balanced ones to change mood and behavior. This approach is practical for anxiety, depression, and problems in daily routines.She also uses dialectical behavior therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. These skills are helpful when emotions feel intense or impulsive. Mindfulness practices are added to reduce stress and increase present-moment awareness, often as short exercises to try at home.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Francesca works collaboratively to choose techniques based on a person’s needs, goals, and preferences, and she adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep working on goals from different locations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Personality disorders
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Arizona
- Languages
- English