About Francesca
Francesca Redden is a PACFA counsellor who helps people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief or past trauma. She explains things simply and works in a calm, body-aware way so clients can feel safer in themselves. Many people come to her when relationships, parenting or career changes leave them drained or unsure what to do next.
Francesca works from a somatic perspective, helping clients notice how the body holds stress and learning gentle ways to release it.
Background and approach
Her sessions blend client-centred listening with mindfulness and trauma-focused ideas. She encourages practical steps that can be used between sessions to manage strong emotions and build resilience. Over ten years Francesca has supported people through loss, domestic violence, abuse, illness and major life transitions.
She also assists with attachment and intimacy concerns, communication problems, codependency and self-esteem work. Her background includes work with people coping with chronic pain and caregiver stress. Her style is straightforward and compassionate.
She treats each person as the expert in their life and helps them find their own answers. Sessions are paced to suit the person and aim to increase safety, confidence and choice. Francesca offers online sessions across Australia in English, using video calls, phone, live chat or text messaging.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that suits them.
How somatic, client-centred and mindful approaches work online
Francesca draws on somatic therapy to help people notice how tension and stress show up in the body. Online sessions include gentle guidance to track sensations, slow breathing and simple movements that can increase a sense of safety and ease.She also uses a client-centred approach that prioritises the persons goals and pace. This means conversations begin where the client is, with the therapist listening and reflecting so people feel understood and supported to find their own solutions.
Mindfulness therapy is used alongside these methods to build present-moment skills. Short, practical mindfulness exercises are taught in sessions and recommended for everyday use to manage anxiety, rumination and strong emotional reactions.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide what feels most helpful based on their needs, goals and preferences. Adaptations are made over time as the person progresses.
Online formats offer flexibility for people with busy lives or mobility limits. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction; phone sessions suit those who prefer not to be on camera; live chat and text messaging support brief check-ins and ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into daily life and to practise new skills in real time.
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does Francesca help with?
What is her therapeutic style like?
How much experience does she have?
Where is she based and what credentials does she hold?
Can I work with her in other languages or from overseas?
What session formats are available?
How are sessions paid for and what does it cost?
How do I begin therapy with Francesca?
Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English