Francesca ReddenPACFA

Francesca Redden welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief or big life changes. She is a PACFA counsellor with ten years' experience and focuses on helping people find steadiness in their body and their day to day life. Francesca practices in Australia and works in a calm, down-to-earth way that aims to make difficult steps feel manageable.

She uses body-based somatic approaches to help people notice where stress shows up in the body. That can mean simple grounding exercises, pacing techniques and learning small ways to shift tense patterns. Francesca also draws on trauma-focused and client-centred methods, which aim to follow each person's pace and priorities when talking through painful memories or current worries.

Many people come for support with relationships, intimacy, parenting concerns and family-related difficulties. Francesca also helps with loss, career transitions, anger and self-esteem issues, and long-term conditions such as chronic pain or illness. She frames these topics in plain language and focuses on practical steps people can use between sessions.

Her practice includes inner parts work and mindfulness tools to build resilience and self-compassion. Francesca encourages people to notice their own strengths and to use them as a base for change. She aims to create a steady, paced environment where clients can explore what they want to shift.

To begin, Francesca suggests small, achievable goals and works collaboratively to track progress. She describes therapy as a joint process of discovery, where the client’s experience guides the direction of the work.

How Francesca's approaches translate to online work

Francesca uses somatic therapy to help people notice and shift how stress lives in their body, with simple grounding and movement practices to reduce tension. She also uses trauma-focused methods to carefully work through difficult memories and their effects, and client-centred therapy to follow the person's priorities and pacing during sessions.

Finding the right approach is part of the journey. Francesca collaborates with each person to pick methods that suit their needs, goals and comfort. She checks in about what feels helpful and adapts techniques as the work progresses so the plan fits the person rather than the other way around.

Please confirm current session options before booking, as formats are not specified here. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, for example by reducing travel time or allowing shorter check-ins during a lunch break. It can also let people use mindfulness and somatic exercises in familiar routines, practice skills between sessions and keep momentum when life feels disrupted.