Frances Osborn is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 18 years of clinical experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, family conflict, and depression.
01About Frances
Frances Osborn is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 18 years of clinical experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, family conflict, and depression. She focuses on practical support for everyday struggles and on helping clients cope with major life changes. Frances emphasizes strengths and collaboration in sessions so clients are part of planning their next steps.
She begins by listening closely to each person's story and identifying what is most immediate.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to build skills that reduce worry and help with daily functioning. That can look like learning new ways to handle triggers, improving communication, or planning small changes that add up. Frances has worked across issues often linked together, such as attachment and abandonment worries, caregiver strain, and chronic illness or pain.
She also has experience with adoption and foster care concerns, blended family stress, and relationship patterns like codependency or commitment fears. Her approach is practical and grounded in techniques shown to help with these problems. In therapy she helps people name patterns, try different responses, and track what works.
The work is paced to the individual's readiness and goals. Clients leave sessions with concrete steps they can use between meetings. Frances offers sessions in English and provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
She practices in Texas and uses a subscription model for scheduling that can be canceled at any time.
02Credentials
- LPC (Texas)
- License 16632 · expires October 2027
- NPI
- 1679748255 · national provider identifier
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03Focus areas and approaches
Everything Frances lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
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04Online support
Evidence-based approaches and online options
Frances uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear skills and coping strategies. One common approach helps people recognize patterns that keep stress and anxiety active, then practices alternative responses that reduce overwhelm and improve daily functioning. Another approach addresses trauma and abuse by helping clients name and process painful memories while building strategies to feel safer and more in control in everyday life.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Frances collaborates with each person to identify goals, try methods, and adjust based on what helps most. She guides clients through options and tailors the plan to match needs, pace, and preferences so therapy feels useful and doable.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can fit a quiet break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text allow shorter check-ins and flexible writing-based work. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around life demands and to keep progress moving between in-person commitments.
05Questions people ask
What concerns does Frances commonly address?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, family conflict, and coping with life changes.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is collaborative and practical, focusing on skills and steps clients can use between sessions.
How much experience does she have?
Frances has 18 years of professional experience working with a range of emotional and family issues.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas and provides services from that location.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
In what session formats does she work?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different needs.
How are sessions paid for and what does it cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I start therapy with Frances?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
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