Francesca Di Genova, BACP

Francesca Di Genova is an experienced UK-based therapist who brings eight years of clinical practice to her work supporting people through anxiety, relationship challenges, bereavement, addiction, trauma, and a range of other concerns. She combines a humanistic emphasis on the therapeutic relationship with evidence-informed techniques to help clients clarify thoughts, manage intense emotions, and change unhelpful behaviours.

Francesca is professional, communicative, and empathic, with a background in psychotherapy and psychological assessment. She works with difficulties such as panic attacks, depression, low self-esteem, social anxiety, family and interpersonal problems, and issues linked to personality, including avoidant patterns and feelings of emptiness. Her listed specialties also include stress, ADHD, grief, intimacy-related concerns, sleep problems, anger, career challenges, and compassion fatigue.

Her clinical approach draws primarily on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - known as CBT - which explores how thoughts, feelings and actions interact and how changing thought patterns can ease emotional distress. She also practices Client-Centered Therapy, placing the quality of the therapeutic relationship at the heart of change. Francesca holds BACP accreditation - a recognised UK counselling and psychotherapy credential - and offers therapy in English and Italian for people located in the United Kingdom.

Approaches and online support for emotional change

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people notice the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It uses practical techniques to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and develop alternative strategies, which can be especially helpful for anxiety, panic, depression and sleep difficulties.

Client-Centered Therapy emphasises the relationship between therapist and client, offering a non-directive, empathic space where a person can explore emotions and personal meaning. This approach supports growth in self-esteem, relational issues, identity questions and experiences of emptiness by validating the client’s perspective and pacing the work to their needs.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Francesca will work with each person to assess needs, discuss goals and trial techniques so the therapeutic style fits the individual’s preferences and circumstances. Registered professionals like Francesca aim to adapt methods rather than apply one fixed model.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions by video call or phone let people meet at convenient times, while live chat and text-based messaging provide ongoing access between meetings. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care, fit therapy around work and family life, and access support from the comfort of home while working toward meaningful change.