About Francesca
Francesca Cochard is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Pennsylvania who uses a somatic-informed approach alongside practical talk therapy. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, mood concerns, and the fallout from trauma. Her style centers on the person's experience and aims to build skills people can use between sessions.
With six years of experience in mental health, she has supported people coping with grief, anger, addictions, low self-esteem, and changes such as adoption or foster care transitions.
Background and approach
She also works with those navigating parenting strain, sleep and eating concerns, ADHD, and chronic health-related stress. Francesca draws on a mix of methods so the work fits the person she meets. Her approach is client-centered and humanistic, meaning the person is treated as the expert in their own life while the therapist offers guidance and tools.
She pays attention to how identity and daily life shape a person's struggles. Sessions focus on building internal awareness and improving how people relate to others. Francesca combines somatic practices with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Attachment-Based ideas to help people notice body-based cues and change unhelpful patterns.
Practical strategies are paired with attention to physical response and emotions. Sessions can include talk work, body-awareness exercises, and skill practice tailored to each person's needs. Francesca aims to meet people where they are and adjust her approach as goals and circumstances evolve.
Practical therapy approaches for online care
Francesca blends somatic-informed work with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Attachment-Based ideas to help people respond to stress and relationship patterns. Somatic work focuses on how the body holds emotion and uses simple awareness or movement to reduce tension and improve regulation. ACT teaches values-based choices and practical steps to accept difficult thoughts while committing to actions that matter. Attachment-Based ideas look at how early relationships shape current patterns and support changes in how people relate to others.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Francesca collaborates with each person to test methods and find what fits best based on their needs, goals, and preferences. She adapts techniques as progress is made so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make therapy easier to fit into busy lives. These options allow people to practice skills between sessions and stay connected from home or while traveling. The range of formats supports flexibility and helps maintain momentum when life gets hectic.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- 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 life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English