Francesca Whitby
Supportive counsellor with practical coping tools
About Francesca
Francesca Whitby welcomes people who feel anxious, overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure how to move forward. She offers a calm, straightforward presence and focuses on helping people find clearer ways to manage day-to-day stress. Francesca’s approach is practical and down to earth.
She aims to make sessions feel simple and approachable for someone searching for help on a phone or at a difficult moment. Francesca practises client-centred therapy, which means she makes space for people to be heard and understood without judgement.
Background and approach
She also uses cognitive behavioural therapy, bringing in practical tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. Sessions often mix listening with small, actionable steps to try between meetings. Her work covers anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, and difficulties with intimacy.
She also supports people dealing with sleep and eating concerns, parenting pressures, anger, career questions, bipolar and depression, and ADHD. Additional focus areas include attachment issues, body image, codependency, and separation and divorce. Francesca has four years of clinical experience and holds BACP accreditation, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
She delivers therapy in the United Kingdom and works in English. People access her through a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time. Sessions can be arranged as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
To begin, someone completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules according to the therapist’s availability.
What Francesca works with
How Francesca works
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Sessions & fees
How Francesca’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centred therapy focuses on creating a respectful, non-judgemental space where the person leads the conversation. The counsellor follows the person’s pace, listens deeply, and reflects what comes up so the person can make sense of their feelings and choices. This approach is helpful for people who need acceptance and clarity while they talk through difficult experiences.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, emphasises the link between thoughts, feelings and behaviours. It uses practical strategies such as thought records, behavioural experiments and activity planning to change patterns that keep problems going. CBT is useful for anxiety, low mood, unhelpful thinking and many everyday challenges.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Francesca will collaborate with each person to test what helps most, tailoring sessions to the individual’s goals and preferences. That means sessions may shift between listening-focused and skills-focused work depending on what is needed.
Online sessions offer flexibility and accessibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a visual connection matters. Phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is limited or for brief check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick updates, ongoing support between sessions, or people who find writing easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep regular contact with a registered or accredited professional when that is helpful.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| 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
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
