Francine Owens, LCSW

Francine Owens is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Tennessee. She brings 28 years of experience to therapy and focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, bipolar disorder, and depression. Francine aims to help people find clearer ways to cope and move toward more satisfying days. Her style is warm, respectful, and nonjudgmental. Sessions are practical and collaborative. She listens first, then helps people try small changes that can make daily life feel more manageable. Francine uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) alongside approaches that emphasize values, emotion work, and skills building. She may draw on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice what matters most. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used when managing intense emotions or improving interpersonal effectiveness. Her background includes a Master of Science in Social Work from the University of Tennessee at Memphis. Francine has long experience in clinical settings and private practice, and she supports people dealing with complex life stressors, caregiving strain, chronic illness, adoption and foster care issues, and relationship conflict. Therapy typically focuses on practical steps - learning skills, changing unhelpful thinking patterns, and practicing new responses. Francine encourages paced work that fits each person's life. She also affirms gender-diverse clients and those in the LGBTQ community. To begin, a simple questionnaire and scheduling step connects a person with services. Sessions are offered in English and can be arranged to fit different schedules and needs.

Approaches that guide online therapy

CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing patterns of behavior that keep problems going. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and mood shifts where tangible skills and homework can make a difference.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify their values and take small committed steps toward those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts or feelings. It can be useful for chronic stress, grief, and ongoing adjustment challenges.

Client-centered therapy centers the person's own experience, offering empathetic listening and reflection to help people understand their feelings and decide on next steps. It works well alongside skills-based approaches when someone needs space to make sense of what they are facing.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Francine will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean blending CBT skills, ACT exercises, and client-centered talk so therapy fits the situation.

Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer sessions, phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into a lunch break, live chat offers short check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflections between sessions. These options provide flexibility and make it simpler to keep therapy steady over time.