Francesca Cochard , LPC

Francesca Cochard is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Pennsylvania with six years of experience supporting children, adolescents, and families affected by trauma and stress-related challenges. As an LPC, she holds state licensure to provide professional counseling services and brings focused experience working with youth involved in the juvenile justice system and children and teens in foster care.

Her clinical work also includes supporting individuals coping with anxiety, difficulties managing anger, mood disorders, and complex family conflicts. Francesca emphasizes a client-centered, humanistic frame that recognizes each person as the expert in their own life while she provides guidance toward greater internal awareness, interpersonal change, and emotional healing.

Treatment is tailored to meet each person where they are, with attention to how cultural identities and lifestyle choices shape experience and recovery. She integrates evidence-based techniques into care, drawing on Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Trauma-Focused CBT, Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA), and Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) to address symptoms and relational patterns.

Francesca's typical hours are Monday through Friday from 9:15am to 6:45pm, with earlier, later, or weekend appointments available by request. She generally responds at least once each morning and once each evening and accepts bookings for live sessions scheduled in advance.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care with Francesca Cochard

Francesca draws on client-centered therapy to create a respectful, collaborative space where the individual is treated as the expert in their own life - this approach supports people working through identity, relationship, and life transition concerns by prioritizing personal values and self-directed growth. Attachment-Based Therapy is used to explore early relationship patterns and how they affect current connections and emotional regulation - it can be especially helpful for families, adoptive or foster situations, and clients struggling with abandonment or attachment issues. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and shifting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, offering practical skills for managing anxiety, mood symptoms, and stress-related reactions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work, and Francesca collaborates with each person to tailor methods to their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they evaluate what feels useful and adjust the plan over time to support sustainable change.

Online therapy with Francesca includes video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. These options make it easier to fit care into daily life, reduce travel time, and maintain continuity of support across locations while working with licensed professionals and therapists who can adapt tools and pace to each client's situation.