Frances "Tansie" Walker, LMHC

Frances "Tansie" Walker is a licensed mental health counselor with 34 years of experience. She offers practical, down-to-earth support when life feels overwhelming. Her style is warm and team-oriented - she works with each person to set clear goals and take small steps forward.

Her work covers everyday stresses as well as deeper struggles. She helps people manage anxiety, depression, grief, and the effects of trauma and abuse. She also supports those facing relationship strain, intimacy challenges, addiction, career uncertainty, and major life changes.

Frances uses a blend of approaches to fit each person’s needs. That includes cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, attachment-based ideas to notice how relationships shape feelings, and client-centered methods that follow the person’s pace and priorities. She also draws on emotionally-focused and existential perspectives when they suit the situation.

Her background includes an M.S. in Counseling and an Education Specialist (Ed.S) in Family Systems from Georgia State University. Her experience spans clinical counseling and many years teaching at colleges including University of Phoenix, Clayton State University, and the American College. She brings both clinical and classroom experience to sessions.

Sessions are offered from Florida in English. Frances combines counseling and coaching to help people regain balance, rebuild hope, and move toward practical change.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online work

Frances commonly draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to help people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that fuel anxiety, depression, and stress. These methods fit well into online sessions because they use clear steps, practical homework, and short skills practice.

She also uses attachment-based ideas to help clients understand how past and current relationships shape reactions and intimacy. That approach focuses on patterns in connections and can be explored effectively through conversation and guided reflection online. In addition, her client-centered stance means sessions move at the client's pace, prioritizing what matters most to them and building on their own strengths.

Figuring out the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Frances will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level, and she adjusts over time if something isn't working.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and seeing nonverbal cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, chat and text can fit short check-ins or moments when typing feels easier. These options make therapy more flexible and help people fit support into busy lives.