Francesca Cochard, LPC
Client-centered counselor for stress and anger
Explore online therapy optionsWorks with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Anger management
How Francesca works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania
- Years in practice
- 6
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Francesca
Francesca Cochard is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Pennsylvania. She brings six years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, anger, and mood concerns. Francesca works with issues like grief, relationship and intimacy struggles, parenting strain, and the challenges that come with ADHD and life transitions.
Her work starts by listening. Francesca takes a client-centered, humanistic approach that treats each person as the expert in their own life.
Background and approach
She guides clients toward clearer internal awareness and practical steps to change how they relate to themselves and others. Francesca draws on several evidence-informed methods, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Attachment-Based Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). She adapts techniques to the needs of the person in front of her rather than following a one-size-fits-all plan.
Her background includes experience with trauma, youth involved with juvenile systems, and children in foster care, and she applies that experience when supporting people affected by past abuse or stressful family situations. She is mindful of how culture and lifestyle shape a person’s challenges and recovery. In sessions clients can expect a mix of practical skills and reflective conversation.
Francesca helps people develop new coping skills, work through relationship patterns, and reduce problematic behaviors such as problematic eating, substance use, or trouble sleeping. She offers therapeutic work with openness and collaboration, matching methods to each person’s goals and pace.
What Francesca works with
Everything Francesca lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Francesca's practice.
- 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.
Practical therapy approaches for online care
Francesca commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and to clarify values that guide meaningful action. ACT can be useful for stress, anxiety, anger, and life transitions.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), which looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches specific skills to change them. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating issues, and for regulating mood and anger.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Francesca will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy lets people connect in several ways, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full sessions and face-to-face conversation, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can fit a quick check-in or support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, and busy schedules while maintaining consistent support.
Questions people ask about Francesca
What concerns does Francesca commonly address?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, anger, depression, grief, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, sleeping and eating difficulties, ADHD, bipolar disorder, and coping with life changes.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her approach is client-centered and humanistic, which means she listens first and tailors methods to each person. She blends practical skill-building with conversation about patterns and feelings.
What experience does she bring to sessions?
She has six years working in mental health, including experience with trauma, youth involved in the juvenile system, and children in foster care, which informs her work with stress and family-related issues.
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 for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and she is able to work with international clients.
What session formats are available?
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different needs and schedules.
How does cost and payment work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
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