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Therapy with Francina

  • Individual telehealth therapy with adults 18 to 68

  • Decades of experiences

  • Most major health insurances accepted; self-pay option

  • Mindfulness and Acceptance Based

  • Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) with heart and soul

  • Internal Family Systems (IFS)

  • Art Therapy

  • Movement, Nature

  • Yoga therapy lens for a holistic approach to mental health

  • Coming back to Self

  • Choice

Mental Health that Recognizes its Not all Mental

Mind

Body

Breath

Move from a restless mind to a peaceful focused state.

Francina’s approach to mental health therapy Because everything we ever experienced live in both the mind and body, therapy to address both.

Traditional talk therapy isn't always enough for anxiety, depression, or for a brain and body shaped by trauma or neurodivergence.

I’m Francina, a licensed professional therapist in NJ and PA. I'm also a Board Certified Registered Art Therapist SM (ATR-BC®), and Yoga Therapist.

I don’t just sit and nod; our sessions are an active, compassionate conversation. Whether we are talking, drawing the sun or observing our breath, my goal is to help you move from 'just surviving' to feeling truly empowered in your own skin. If you’re tired of feeling stuck and want a therapist who 'gets' the complexity of your experience, I’m here when you’re ready.

  • Art Therapy, Metaphor, and Expression: To process what words sometimes can't.

  • Somatic & Yoga Therapy: To help regulate your nervous system and find safety in your body.

  • CCTP-II Strategies: To address complex trauma and PTSD with evidence-based care.

  • Neuro-Affirming Care: Specialized support for Autism Spectrum Disorder and ADHD that honors your unique processing style.

  • LGBTQ-affirming care, Women’s issues

  • Systems, Feminist, Anti-Colonialism/De-colonialism

    My focus is on building your self-awareness and empowering you to make choices that align with your true self. We deconstruct to reconstruct. If you are looking for a therapist who is welcoming, non-judgmental, and ready to do the work with you, I invite you to connect.

“Yoga is experienced in that mind which has ceased to identify itself with its vacillating waves of perception. When that happens, then the seer is revealed resting in its own essential nature and one realizes the true self”. ”
— Yoga Sutra of Patanjali 1,2

Building

Connecting

MakingitPersonal

Mental Health and Balance

Deconstructing and rebuilding from the ground up

Therapy with Francina

  • Mindfulness/Meditation

  • Breath/Body Connection

  • Balance of opposites

  • Heart and soul

  • Internal Family Systems (IFS)

  • Art Therapy

  • Movement, Nature

  • Yoga therapy lens for a holistic approach to mental health

  • Coming back to Self

  • Choice

Mental Health that Recognizes its Not all Mental

Mind

Body

Breath

Move from a restless mind to peaceful focused state.

Because everything we ever experienced live in both the mind and body, therapy to address both.

Compassionate conversation. Feel heard and understood. Move from 'just surviving' to feeling truly empowered.

  • Talk Therapy

  • Art Therapy, Metaphor, and Expression: To process what words sometimes can't.

  • Somatic & Yoga Therapy: To help regulate your nervous system and find safety in your body.

  • CCTP-II Strategies: To address complex trauma and PTSD with evidence-based care.

  • Neuro-Affirming Care: Specialized support for Autism Spectrum Disorder and ADHD that honors your unique processing style.

  • LGBTQ-affirming care, Women’s issues

  • Systems, Feminist, Anti-Colonialism/De-colonialism

    We deconstruct to reconstruct. If you are looking for a therapist who is welcoming, non-judgmental, and ready to do the work with you, let's connect.

““C.G. Jung said:

There is good reason for yoga to have
many adherents. It offers not only the
much-sought way, but also a
philosophy of unrivalled profundity.

Yoga practice is unthinkable, and
would also be ineffectual, without the
ideas on which it is based. It works
the physical and the spiritual into one
another in an extraordinarily complete
way.”
— C.G. Jung, "Yoga and the West, as found in Stiles, "Structual Yoga therapy(TM): Adapting to the Individual", (San Fancisco, CA, 2000,Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC), p. 5

Building

Connecting

MakingitPersonal

Mental Health and Balance

Deconstructing and rebuilding from the ground up

  • Building a foundation just where we are. Through the lens of our telehealth session, in your own space. To support your rhythm. Integrate new ways. Like nesting dolls, we find our center.

    In therapy with Francina, choice is always first. Collaboration and curiosity, humor, and understanding.

    What might seem irrelevant to the thinking brain is just the tip of the iceberg; there is so much more.

    Book an appointment with me, here. For a free 15-minute consultation, contact me here.

    Education:

    Master’s Degree in dual study Art Therapy and Counseling, Edinboro University, PA

    Breathing Deeply Yoga and Meditation School, Massachusetts, Yoga Therapy Foundations and Advanced Program, Foundations Level Yoga Therapist

    Board Certified Art TherapistSM(ATR-BC®)

    Trauma level II certified professional (CCTP-II)

    Autism Spectrum Disorder Clinical Specialist (ASDCS)

  • Mind body breath awareness

    • Mindfulness/Meditation

    • Somatic-based approaches

    • Strength-Based Therapy

    • Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS)

    • Art Therapy

    • Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)

    • Yoga Therapy

    • Supportive therapy

    • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

    • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

    • Expressive Therapies Continuum (bottom-up approach)

    • De-Colonialization/Feminist

    Language: English, and Art Therapy, Somatic/Expressive/Bottom up

    Creative

    Empowering

    Holistic

  • In our first session, our priority is safety and clarity. We’ll start by mapping out where you are feeling 'stuck'—whether that’s in your thoughts, your emotions, or your physical body.

    We will begin identifying the specific triggers and patterns that affect your nervous system. You can expect a warm, active conversation and you’ll leave our first meeting with a clearer direction. I invite you to move from 'just surviving' to feeling empowered in your own skin.

  • I work with those who experience conditions labeled as

    • Depression

    • Anxiety/Panic

    • Chronic condtions

    • Obsessive Compulsive Tendencies

    • Impulsivity/Emotionally reactive

    • Relational

    • Neurodivergence

    • Autism Spectrum Disorder

    • Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD/ADHD)

    • Sleep problems

    • Complex trauma and Nervous System hyper-and-hypo-arousal

    • And more

    Treatment areas

    • Mood and emotion regulation

    • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

    • Trauma

    • Women's Issues

    • Grief / Bereavement

    • Stress Management

    • Family Issues

    • Cultural / Ethnic/Identity Issues

  • Highly personalized. I believe that because all we ever experienced live in both the mind and the body, therapy can address both. I utilize a blend of:

    • Talk Therapy

    • Art Therapy: To process what words sometimes can't and as a bridge to the subconscious, deeper “Ice berg”.

    • Somatic & Yoga Therapy: To help regulate your nervous system and find safety in your body.

    • CCTP-II Strategies: To address complex trauma and PTSD with evidence-based care.

    • Neuro-Affirming Care: Specialized support for Neurdiveristy that honors your unique processing style.

    • LGBTQ-affirming care

    My focus is on helping you build you, one breath at a time, and empowering you to make choices that align with your true self. If you are looking for a therapist who is welcoming, non-judgmental, and ready to do the work with you, I invite you to connect.

Let’s create something meaningful together.