“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”

C.S. Lewis

Narrative Therapy with Francina

  • Individual telehealth therapy with adults 18 to 68

  • Most major health insurances accepted; self-pay option

  • Mindfulness and Acceptance Based

  • Narrative approach

  • Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) with heart and soul

  • Internal Family Systems (IFS)

  • Art as therapy, Movement, Nature

  • Somatic/mind/body

  • Choice

“The person is the person and the problem is the problem; the person is not the problem.”

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® in PA), and Yoga Therapist.

Welcome brave soul. If you are looking for a space to sort things out, or be heard, or learn new ways to navigate your world, I’m here to listen and help you find ways to move you from just surviving to thriving. If you want a therapist who 'gets' the complexity of your experiences. I’m here when you’re ready.

  • Narrative therapy. We all have stories. Telling our stories and being heard, being seen, being validated. Reconstructing our stories to build with the material we have to work with. Not all stories come with words.

  • Somatic scanning and experiencing: 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. A safe space to listen.

  • Neuro-Affirming Care: Honors your unique processing style and needs.

  • LGBTQ-affirming care, Women’s issues

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

    We deconstruct to reconstruct.

    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

Mental Health that Recognizes its Not all Mental

Mind

Body

Breath

Move from a restless mind to peaceful focused state.

““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

  • A gentle place to land. Building a foundation just where we are. Through the lens of our telehealth window, 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®) in PA

    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)

    • Narrative 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

    Creative

    Empowering

    Holistic

  • 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

Let’s create something meaningful together.