Beginning therapy and taking the chance to trust someone new is an act of great courage. You may find yourself seeking therapy because you’ve noticed that the strategies that you learned in the past to protect yourself from pain are causing pain in your current life and relationships. Frances approaches therapy with a deep respect for your own perspectives, survival strategies, and desires. Her hope for clients is that they leave their work with a more nuanced self-understanding and an ability to experience a fuller range of emotions, from joy and love to anger and sorrow.

Frances works primarily from a psychodynamic perspective, which means clients will work together to explore the ways emotional experiences of the past affect your life and relationships today, and collaborate to create new possibilities for the future. Clients can expect Frances to join the relationship with curiosity, kindness, and at times a new or challenging perspective. Frances also uses Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and other modalities depending on specific client hopes and concerns.

Frances particularly enjoy working with queer, trans, and questioning clients and their loved ones, individuals with anxiety, and young adults with difficulties in familial, friendship, romantic or sexual relationships.

Frances currently works with individuals aged 15 years and older.