Francesca Di Genova, BACP

Francesca Di Genova offers a warm, person-centred approach grounded in cognitive behavioural ideas. She works to create a respectful, non-judgemental space where people can talk through what feels hard right now. Francesca uses straightforward language and clear steps to help people make sense of their thoughts and responses.

With eight years of professional experience, Francesca blends Client-Centred Therapy with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, drawing on both to suit each person’s needs. She focuses on practical ways to reduce anxiety, manage panic, and improve sleep and mood. She also helps people who are struggling with stress, low self-esteem, addiction issues, grief, relationship concerns and life changes.

Francesca works with issues linked to identity and intimacy, and pays attention to patterns such as avoidant traits and feelings of emptiness. She supports those facing career strain, compassion fatigue and the particular pressures that come with social anxiety or phobias. Her approach aims to make emotional reactions easier to understand and change.

Sessions combine listening, gentle challenge and collaborative planning. She helps people spot unhelpful thinking, try small behavioural experiments, and build useful routines. The relationship in the room is treated as a key part of the change process.

Francesca offers sessions in English and Italian and practices in the United Kingdom. If you think this approach might suit you, consider the practical step of completing the site questionnaire to begin matching and booking.

How Francesca's Approaches Work Online

Client-Centred Therapy is about being listened to and understood. It focuses on building a caring therapeutic relationship and giving space for people to make sense of their feelings. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions interact and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, panic and low mood.

Finding the right way of working is usually collaborative. Francesca will talk with each person about goals and preferences, and together they will choose which elements of client-centred work or CBT to use. She adapts the balance of listening and practical steps to match how someone prefers to work.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, for example by avoiding travel time or allowing shorter check-ins when schedules demand it. It can also make it simpler to maintain continuity between appointments during times of change. The exact session formats offered are not listed here, so check the current session options before booking to confirm what will suit your needs.