Francesca Sciandra

When you’re ready to begin therapy, you might experience a complex mix of thoughts and feelings. You might be thinking —

• ‘I know what’s wrong, but I don’t know how to change.’  

• ‘I'm not sure what’s wrong, but I don’t feel good about myself.’

• ‘I'm frustrated — I keep doing the same thing, but I don’t know why.’

Hello, I am Francesca. I provide an accepting and non-judgmental space for healing and change.

I help my clients explore and resolve various issues, including anxiety, depression, low self-confidence, loneliness, anger, grief, and sleep problems. I also support my clients with relationship difficulties, including overcoming sexual issues and attachment issues. Additionally, I support processing and integrating psychedelic experiences and non-ordinary states of consciousness.

My approach is integrative and person-centred, which means I use a range of therapeutic methods to explore and address what’s most meaningful to you.

I am trained in and practice humanistic counselling, hypnotherapy, psychodynamic therapy, somatic methods, and mindfulness approaches.

Hypnotherapy and hypno-psychotherapeutic counselling use a combination of hypnosis and talk therapy to resolve underlying issues and create change.

Challenges I help with include:

• Managing stress and overcoming anxiety

• Treating forms of depression, including major depression

• Resolving sleep problems, including insomnia, nightmares, and sleep anxiety

• Exploring and resolving relationship issues and difficulties

• Improving emotional regulation and resolving issues, including anger and jealousy

• Overcoming low self-confidence and low self-esteem

• Resolving attachment issues, including anxious, avoidant, and disorganised patterns of relating to others — these are sometimes called ‘commitment issues’ or ‘abandonment issues’

• Overcoming feelings of isolation or loneliness

• Processing and integrating psychedelic experiences and non-ordinary states of consciousness

• Resolving sexual issues, including sexual shame and vaginismus and vulvodynia

• Healing after complex life experiences and processing responses to trauma

How we can work together

Short-term therapy or counselling may be the right approach if you are looking for support in a period of distress or difficulty. Medium or long-term therapy is more explorative and can help you understand your life, your relationships, and the patterns you’ve experienced.

Sessions typically happen weekly at a set time that works for both of us. I offer daytime and evening availability.

To get started, book a consultation, sign up for my newsletter, or contact me.