Francesca Manzi
Experienced counsellor for grief and illness
About Francesca
Francesca Manzi is a counsellor registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) with over 20 years of professional experience in related fields. She offers calm, steady support for people dealing with loss, long-term illness, anxiety and low mood. Her background in nursing, midwifery and foster care informs a practical, compassionate approach to emotional difficulties.
Francesca helps people facing grief and end-of-life concerns, including hospice and palliative situations.
Background and approach
She also works with those managing chronic pain, cancer or long-term health conditions, and with people who feel isolated or drained by compassion fatigue. She pays close attention to how illness and care roles affect daily life and emotions. Many clients consult about difficult family patterns, including family of origin issues, codependency and challenges with narcissistic relatives.
Francesca supports people trying to set boundaries, rebuild self-esteem and recover from controlling or emotionally harmful relationships. She uses clear, down-to-earth conversations to map practical next steps. Her sessions are suited to people who want thoughtful, experience-led guidance rather than clinical jargon.
She talks through feelings, offers coping tools and helps people find what works for their life. The emphasis is on small, manageable changes and steady emotional relief. Francesca offers online sessions for people across the United Kingdom and internationally.
New clients begin by completing a short questionnaire and then scheduling sessions according to the therapist's availability.
What Francesca works with
Sessions & fees
Practical therapeutic approaches and online access
Many of Francesca's sessions draw on well established, evidence-based approaches that help people process loss and manage anxiety. One approach focuses on guided conversations to make sense of grief and the practical tasks that follow bereavement; it helps people name feelings and make concrete plans for day-to-day coping. Another approach addresses the emotional impact of chronic illness by teaching pacing, activity planning and ways to reduce overwhelm so that life feels more manageable despite health limits.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Francesca will collaborate with each person to identify which methods fit their needs, goals and preferences. She adapts techniques over time and checks in regularly to make sure the plan remains helpful and realistic.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around care commitments, health limitations and busy schedules.
| 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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- Experience
- 20 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
