Francesca Dolan Wills, BACP

Francesca Dolan Wills is a counsellor with six years of professional experience practising in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP accreditation and has run a private practice since June 2023. Francesca’s background includes time working for a hospice, a pregnancy loss charity, NHS services, police employee support, and a cancer youth charity. She also spent eight years as a work and employment coach for the UK government before training as a counsellor.

Francesca helps people facing stress, anxiety and major life changes. She talks through grief and loss, infertility and pregnancy loss, and a wide range of family and relationship concerns. She also supports people dealing with career worries, compassion fatigue, chronic illness and carers’ stress.

Her style is warm and non-judgemental. She aims to build an open space where thoughts and feelings can be spoken about honestly. Sessions focus on what matters to the person in front of her, with practical ideas when they are wanted.

Francesca draws on client-centred ways of working alongside emotionally focused and mindfulness approaches. She also uses solution-focused techniques to help people identify small steps forward. Her experience across charities, NHS and employee assistance programmes informs a practical approach to everyday pressures.

Francesca is able to work with people from diverse religious and cultural backgrounds. She supports international clients in English. To begin, a short questionnaire matches people to her and then appointments are scheduled to suit availability.

How Francesca uses talking therapies online

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on accepting and understanding the person as they are, with the counsellor listening and reflecting to help people make sense of their feelings. It can be useful for depression, anxiety and life changes where being heard helps. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) looks at patterns in close relationships and how emotions shape those interactions; it supports people working through attachment, intimacy and relationship concerns.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Francesca will explore your needs, goals and preferences and suggest ways of working that fit you. Decisions about methods are made collaboratively so you can try options and adjust them as you go.

The practical benefits of online therapy include fitting sessions around work, medical appointments or caregiving commitments and reducing travel time. Because session formats were not specified in the biography, confirm the exact options available before booking. Registered or accredited professionals often offer ways of meeting that help therapy slot into everyday life without adding extra journeys.