- Body-focused work
- Trauma-informed care
- Mindful approaches
About Francesca
Francesca Redden is a PACFA counsellor with ten years of professional experience. She supports people managing stress, anxiety, grief, self-esteem challenges, and codependency. Francesca also helps those facing life transitions such as relationship endings or career change.
She works from a body-based, somatic perspective that pays attention to how the body holds tension and safety. Sessions aim to help people notice physical signals, build personal resources, and find calmer ways to respond to stress. Francesca believes clients are the experts in their own stories and that therapy should help people access their own strengths.
Her practice is trauma-informed and person-centred. She uses approaches including somatic work, mindfulness, trauma-focused techniques and Internal Family Systems to support recovery from past harms. Practical aims include greater ease moving through daily life, improved self-compassion, and clearer boundaries when relating to others.
Francesca also brings experience supporting people with family-of-origin issues, attachment and abandonment concerns, intimacy-related difficulties, caregiving stress, chronic illness and recovery after domestic violence. She describes therapy as a collaborative process, meeting each person where they are and building on what already works.
Taking the first step can feel daunting. Francesca offers an approach that combines body-based practices with reflective talking work to help people build steadiness, confidence and a clearer sense of direction.
How Francesca's approaches translate to online therapy
Francesca uses somatic work and mindfulness in her practice. Somatic therapy focuses on body sensations and learning to notice and regulate physical responses to stress, which can help with trauma, chronic tension and overwhelm. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and increase self-compassion, useful for anxiety, low mood and codependency.Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Francesca works collaboratively to identify which methods feel most helpful based on each person's goals, needs and preferences. She adapts exercises and pacing so the work fits the person rather than forcing a single technique.
The therapist's biography does not specify session formats here, so please confirm current options before booking. Online approaches can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. They also mean mindfulness and somatic practices can be practised in everyday settings, helping people apply new skills between sessions.
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Experience
10+ years
Credentials
Listed on profile
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does Francesca help with?
She supports people with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem, codependency and related life changes.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is person-centred and trauma-informed, combining somatic techniques with mindfulness and reflective talk to build resources and calm the nervous system.
How much experience does she have?
She has ten years of professional work experience in counselling and related somatic approaches.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is listed with PACFA and practises in Australia.
Which languages are supported and can international clients join?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
The original biography does not list specific session formats, so please confirm current session options before booking.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with Francesca?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
Profile details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. Credential and registration rules differ between the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.