Francesca Polini , BACP

Francesca Polini is a London-based psychotherapist with five years of clinical experience and membership of the BACP, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, which signals professional accreditation in the UK. Her professional and personal journey has been shaped by long periods living abroad and by working across cultures, an experience that informs a sensitive, culturally aware approach to therapeutic work.

Fluent in English and Italian, Francesca draws on an integrative framework that blends multiple therapeutic traditions to fit each person she works with. She pays particular attention to how identity and changing values interact with relationships and self-understanding, and she brings curiosity and openness to complexities such as attachment patterns, adoption and foster care backgrounds, aging, and blended family dynamics.

Her clinical focus includes stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and depression. Francesca also attends to related concerns such as abandonment, body image, chronic illness and pain, codependency, communication and control issues, and aspects of alternative sexual cultures. She tailors interventions to individual needs, combining approaches to address emotional, relational, and developmental themes while remaining attentive to each person’s life story and goals.

Integrative therapeutic approaches for online care

Francesca uses attachment-based work to explore how early relationships shape current patterns of relating and emotional regulation. This approach helps people understand recurring difficulties in close relationships, issues tied to abandonment or adoption, and how attachment styles affect trust and intimacy.

She also draws on client-centered therapy, which emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental therapeutic relationship and supports clients to find their own solutions. This approach is often helpful for concerns such as low self-esteem, depression, and navigating life transitions by focusing on the client’s experience and goals.

Hypnotherapy is included in Francesca’s toolkit as a complementary method for working with stress, anxiety, and certain habitual responses. When appropriate, it can be used alongside conversational therapies to support change in thought patterns and bodily reactions.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Francesca works collaboratively with each person to determine which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences, and she adapts her interventions as therapy progresses.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility and accessibility. These options allow clients to engage in therapy from different locations and on schedules that fit their lives while maintaining ongoing contact with a licensed professional and a consistent therapeutic focus.