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Online therapist

Frances "Tansie" Walker

Compassionate guidance for family and relationship struggles

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Credentials
LMHC
Experience
34 years
Licensed in
Florida
Languages
English
Format
Online sessions

About Frances

Frances "Tansie" Walker is a licensed mental health counselor with more than three decades of clinical experience in Florida. She focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, grief, trauma, and addiction. Tansie combines counseling and coaching so clients can set clear goals and take steps toward change.

Her work is grounded in practical conversation and steady support during difficult transitions. She creates a calm space for honest talk about what is hurting you.

Background and approach

Sessions are collaborative - therapist and client decide on goals together. Tansie uses straightforward tools to address communication problems, intimacy concerns, and challenges within households. Her background includes long clinical practice and time teaching at the college level.

That experience informs how she explains patterns like attachment, codependency, or blended family dynamics. She draws from multiple approaches when planning work with a person or couple. In therapy she may use techniques from attachment-based work to clarify relationship patterns.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people change unhelpful thinking and behavior. Emotionally-Focused Therapy supports reconnecting and repairing closeness between partners. Tansie also attends to practical life needs such as career change, coping with loss, and handling compassion fatigue.

She respects each person's values and encourages solutions that fit their life. Her aim is to help clients regain a sense of balance, agency, and hope.

How Tansie blends approaches for online family and relationship work

Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds shape how people relate now. It helps identify patterns of closeness, fear of abandonment, and communication cycles that keep couples or family members stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It offers concrete steps to shift thinking and reduce anxiety or depressive patterns through practical exercises.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Tansie collaborates with each person to figure out what fits their goals, needs, and comfort. She may use attachment ideas to map relationship dynamics, then add CBT tools to change day-to-day reactions, adjusting the plan as progress unfolds.

Online therapy makes these approaches flexible and accessible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can work when a quieter check-in helps. Live chat and text-based messaging let clients share between sessions or use short, focused support. These options let people fit therapy into busy family and work lives while keeping the work focused on connection, communication, and practical change.

Attachment-Based Therapy

Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.

Client-Centered Therapy

The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does she address?
Tansie works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, relationship and family issues, intimacy concerns, self-esteem, career questions, and coping with life changes.
What is her therapeutic style like?
She takes a collaborative, down-to-earth approach that mixes counseling and coaching. Sessions focus on setting goals and using clear strategies to change thoughts, feelings, or behaviors.
How much experience does she bring?
She has 34 years of professional experience working in clinical and academic settings, which shapes a practical and informed way of working with clients.
What are her credentials and where is she located?
She is a licensed mental health counselor - FL LMHC MH11198 - and practices in Florida.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can she work with people outside the country?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different preferences and schedules.
How does cost and starting therapy work?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, fill out a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.

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Experience
34 years
Licensed
Florida
Languages
English

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