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Francis Clark

Practical counseling for real-life change

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Credentials
LPC
Experience
20 years
Licensed in
Mississippi
Languages
English
Format
Online sessions

About Francis

Francis Clark is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with two decades of experience in mental health. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and addictive behaviors. Francis offers a warm, accepting presence and aims to meet people where they are.

She works with practical goals and helps clients take clear steps forward. Francis favors approaches that are active and skills-based. She often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts.

Background and approach

She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness practices to build emotional regulation and present-moment awareness. Her work emphasizes better communication and clearer plans for change. Sessions typically involve talking through current problems, learning specific skills, and deciding on small steps to try between meetings.

Francis helps map out a recovery or progress plan that fits a person’s life and priorities. Francis has experience across many concerns including grief, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting-related stress, and challenges like ADHD and chronic illness. Her background includes helping people cope with life transitions and career-related stress.

She practices from Mississippi and brings practical problem-solving to therapy. The focus is on making steady, manageable change so people stop feeling stuck and start moving toward the life they want.

Approaches and online options for practical change

Francis commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy in online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking and acting to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression. Dialectical behavior therapy emphasizes skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving communication when feelings run high.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. She will work collaboratively to choose methods that fit a person's goals, needs, and daily life. Together they will try strategies, track what helps, and adjust the plan as progress is made.

Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different schedules and comfort levels. These options allow more flexible timing, shorter check-ins when needed, and ongoing skill reinforcement between meetings. The aim is to make therapy easier to use while keeping the focus on steady, practical change.

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.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.

Mindfulness Therapy

Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns can Francis help with?
She works with a wide range of issues including stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar challenges, addictions, grief, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting-related stress, ADHD, and related areas like attachment and codependency.
What is Francis's therapy style?
Her style is warm and accepting and she favors active, skills-based work. Sessions typically include talking through problems, learning coping skills, and planning concrete steps to try between meetings.
What experience does she bring?
Francis has 20 years in the mental health field and has worked with a broad spectrum of clients across mood, behavioral, and interpersonal concerns.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor with the credential MS LPC 1838 and practices in Mississippi.
Which languages are used in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Francis offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging as formats for working together.
How are costs handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Francis?
To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.

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Experience
20 years
Licensed
Mississippi
Languages
English

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