Frances Recchi, LMHC

Frances Recchi is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 34 years of experience helping people manage anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and relationship or intimacy-related problems. She works with adults who struggle with stress, mood shifts like bipolar disorder, addiction, ADHD, and the fallout from life changes. Sessions focus on practical steps and steady support.

She takes a person-centered approach that centers the client's perspective and strengths. Frances listens for patterns in relationships and behavior and helps people notice unhelpful thoughts. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to challenge distorted thinking and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to build emotion regulation and distress tolerance.

Her trauma-focused work includes creating a calm, predictable space where difficult memories can be processed at a manageable pace. She blends psychodynamic ideas when it helps to identify long-standing patterns tied to attachment and past wounds. This mix aims to move people past stuck places toward clearer choices.

Frances emphasizes collaboration. She and the client set goals together and choose strategies that fit daily life. Sessions may include skill practice, homework, or conversations that shift long-held beliefs.

Frances draws on a Master of Arts in counseling psychology and her long clinical experience to guide people through complex problems. She practices from Massachusetts and offers English-language services to national and international clients.

How Frances uses therapeutic approaches online

Frances often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts influence feelings and behavior and teaches concrete strategies to change unhelpful thinking patterns. CBT can help with anxiety, depression, panic, and upsetting cycles that interfere with daily life.

She also draws on Client-Centered Therapy, which means the conversation focuses on the client's experience and priorities. This approach helps people feel heard and makes it easier to try new ways of coping when they are ready.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used when emotion regulation or intense reactions are an issue. DBT offers practical tools for managing strong feelings, improving relationships, and tolerating distress without harmful behaviors.

Finding the right mix of approaches is a joint process. Frances will talk with each person about goals and preferences and adjust methods over time. The emphasis is on collaboration so strategies fit the client's life and values.

Online work uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make ongoing care more convenient. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and skill demonstrations, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a brief check-in, and text messaging supports quick reflections or reminders between sessions. These options help people maintain continuity of care around work, travel, or changing schedules.