Francesca Dolan Wills

Francesca Dolan Wills is a counsellor who has worked in the UK for six years. She draws on experience from hospices, pregnancy loss charities and larger public services such as the NHS and police support programmes. She now runs a private practice and also works with a cancer youth charity and employee assistance programmes.

Her background includes eight years as a work and employment coach for the UK government, which helps her understand career and workplace pressures. She has helped people with grief and loss, infertility and pregnancy loss, and a wide range of family and career concerns. Her work also covers stress, anxiety and coping with life changes.

Francesca uses a warm, open style in sessions. She aims to create a non-judgemental space where people can say difficult things and be heard. She emphasises listening first, then helping clients find practical steps that feel right for them.

Her clinical approach draws on client-centred methods, emotionally focused ideas and mindfulness, alongside solution-focused techniques to set short-term goals. Sessions tend to balance emotional support with practical coping strategies tailored to each person.

People come to her for help with body image, parenting strains, chronic illness and caregiver stress, relationship and intimacy issues, and compassion fatigue. She works with people from a wide variety of religious and cultural backgrounds and supports international clients as well as those in the UK.

How Francesca’s approaches work online

Francesca uses client-centred therapy, which means sessions focus on the person’s experience and priorities. The therapist listens closely and helps you put words to feelings, which can be useful for grief, relationship and self-esteem concerns.

She also draws on emotionally focused ideas that look at patterns in important relationships. These methods aim to help people identify what they need from others and from themselves, and can be helpful for intimacy and communication issues.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Francesca will discuss your needs, goals and preferences and suggest which methods to try. That choice is collaborative and can change as you make progress.

If you are considering online sessions, please confirm the available formats before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy around work and family life, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also make it simpler to include people who live in different places, subject to scheduling and time zones.