Francesca Cochard , LPC

Francesca Cochard is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with six years of clinical experience. She focuses primarily on supporting children, adolescents, and families who have experienced trauma or stress-related disorders, and she brings direct experience from work with at-risk youth in the juvenile justice system and with young people in foster care.

In addition to trauma work, Francesca supports individuals coping with anxiety, anger management difficulties, mood disorders, and family conflict. Her practice emphasizes a client-centered, humanistic frame that recognizes each person as the expert on their own life while she offers guidance toward greater internal awareness, healthier relationships, and healing.

Francesca begins treatment where each client is and adapts interventions to meet their needs, taking care to consider how cultural identity and lifestyle shape experience. She draws on evidence-based methods, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA), and Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP). Her stated hours are Monday through Friday, 9:15am to 6:45pm, with the possibility of earlier, later, or weekend appointments upon request. Francesca typically responds at least once in the morning and once in the evening and also offers scheduled live sessions.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care with Francesca Cochard

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) invites clients to clarify personal values and to build psychological flexibility through mindful acceptance and committed action - it is often helpful for stress, anxiety, and navigating difficult life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationships shape patterns of connection and emotion regulation, and it can be especially useful for addressing relationship difficulties, attachment concerns, and family dynamics. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathy, unconditional positive regard, and collaborative pacing so that clients lead the process while the therapist reflects and supports growth; this approach can help with self-esteem, coping with transitions, and improving interpersonal skills.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Francesca collaborates with each client to identify which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting techniques as therapy progresses to ensure the best possible match between approach and the client’s situation.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can occur by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging - which helps people access care around work, school, caregiving responsibilities, or geographic constraints. Licensed professionals and therapists can use these formats to maintain continuity of care, provide timely support, and make it easier to integrate therapy into everyday life.