Frances King
Creative counsellor for relationship and life change
About Frances
Frances King helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression and relationship difficulties. She supports those dealing with grief, trauma and abuse, parenting strains, sleeping problems, career worries and life changes. Frances also works with issues such as anger, self-esteem, intimacy-related problems and ADHD.
Frances King is based in the United Kingdom and holds BACP and NCPS credentials. She brings six years of counselling experience and earlier work supporting people affected by cancer.
Background and approach
Frances describes her approach as creative and flexible. She uses talking therapy alongside visualisation, imagery and sand tray techniques when words are hard to find. Sessions are shaped around what each person needs.
Frances draws on attachment-based ideas to look at relationship patterns and on client-centred ways of listening closely to what matters to the individual. Cognitive behavioural techniques can be used to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. When people come for couples work she focuses on communication and practical steps for change.
She can also help couples who have decided to separate to manage the process more calmly. Frances aims for a warm, non-judgemental space where people can talk openly about difficult feelings. She balances compassion with practical strategies so clients can try different ways of coping between sessions.
People who prefer online contact can work with her through video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, depending on what fits their routine and needs.
What Frances works with
How Frances works
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Sessions & fees
How Frances uses therapeutic approaches online
Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds affect current relationships and behaviour, helping people understand patterns that show up in partnerships and friendships. It can be useful for people struggling with abandonment, attachment issues or commitment concerns.Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and following the person's own pace, offering empathic understanding that helps someone make sense of feelings and choices. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, is practical and structured; it helps identify unhelpful thought patterns and try different behaviours to reduce anxiety or low mood.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Frances will talk with each person about their needs and preferences and decide together which methods to use. That collaborative choice can change as therapy progresses and goals become clearer.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy around life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that feels important. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer not to use voice or who want a flexible way to communicate between sessions.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP, NCPS
- Languages
- English
