- Years in practice
- 6
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Family conflicts
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
About Francesca
Francesca Cochard is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Pennsylvania. She brings six years of clinical experience and focuses on practical strategies for stress, anxiety, mood concerns, and parenting challenges. Her approach centers on meeting people where they are and helping them find clearer ways to cope and connect.
Francesca favors a client-centered, humanistic frame. She treats each person as the expert on their life and supports them in building awareness and making interpersonal changes.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize straightforward skills that can be tried between meetings as well as space to process painful experiences. Her background includes work in the juvenile justice system and with youth in foster care, giving her experience with trauma and complex stressors. She has supported people facing anger management, mood disorders, grief, and difficulties with relationships and intimacy.
Parenting is listed among her focus areas, and she works with parents on practical concerns related to raising children and family strain. Francesca uses evidence-based techniques such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) alongside approaches that attend to attachment and acceptance. She adapts methods to fit each person's needs and cultural context.
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth, aimed at small, doable changes. Sessions are offered through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. Francesca conducts therapy in English and is available to work with international clients when scheduling permits.
What Francesca works with
Everything Francesca lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Francesca helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Anger management
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Francesca lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Online approaches that focus on skills and connection
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and decide what matters most to them. It uses small, values-based steps to reduce struggle with difficult feelings and can help with anxiety, depression, and parenting stress.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and how early experiences shape reactions today. This approach is useful when relationship patterns, intimacy issues, or attachment concerns affect daily life and parenting.
Finding the right way of working is part of therapy. The therapist will collaborate to choose approaches that match the client's goals, preferences, and practical needs. Sessions can blend methods so work stays focused and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility through several formats: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth or movement is a concern, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family, and busy days while still using evidence-informed techniques to practice new skills and strategies.
Questions people ask about Francesca
What concerns does she commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar mood issues, grief, trauma and abuse, anger, addictions, and parenting-related stress. Additional focuses include body image, attachment issues, and coping with life changes.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her work is client-centered and humanistic, meaning she treats the client as the expert on their life and guides them toward greater internal awareness and interpersonal change. She mixes skills training and reflective work.
What relevant experience does she bring?
She has six years of experience, including work in the juvenile justice system and with youth in foster care, which informed her practice with trauma and stress-related concerns.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds the LPC credential as a Licensed Professional Counselor in Pennsylvania and practices from that state.
Which languages are supported and can she see international clients?
Sessions are offered in English, and she does accept international clients when scheduling allows.
How are sessions delivered?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different needs and schedules.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button and completing a short matching questionnaire, then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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