Francesca Palazzolo, PACFA

Francesca Palazzolo is a counsellor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, addictions and intimacy-related concerns. She also supports those dealing with trauma, grief, low self-esteem and life changes. Francesca works in Australia and brings ten years of practice to her work with clients. Her style is warm and straightforward. She creates an open space where thoughts and feelings can be shared without fear of judgement. Francesca listens first, then helps people set small, achievable goals. She aims to make the first steps feel manageable rather than overwhelming. Francesca draws on a mix of practical tools and relational focus. She uses cognitive behavioural ideas to notice unhelpful thinking and apply behaviour changes. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is used to help people live by their values even when emotions feel heavy. Attachment-based and client-centred approaches guide how she relates with clients in sessions. These approaches focus on building trust, understanding patterns from past relationships and increasing self-compassion. Dialectical behaviour therapy techniques are sometimes used for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Her work covers a broad range of concerns including eating and sleeping problems, anger, career stress and coping with illness or caregiving. Francesca notes issues such as abandonment, attachment difficulties, codependency and communication problems among her focus areas. She encourages people to take small steps and notices progress along the way.

How Francesca’s approaches translate to online work

Francesca uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and still act according to what matters to them. ACT can assist with anxiety, stress and values-based life changes.

She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to explore how early relationship patterns affect current connections and self-view. This approach is useful for people who want to understand repeating relationship difficulties and build new ways of relating.

Finding the right approach is part of the process and Francesca treats it as a collaboration. She will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit those aims, and adjust the plan as needed based on what helps most.

The practical benefits of online work can include fitting sessions into a busy week, reducing travel time and making it easier to keep regular appointments. Because the biography does not list specific session formats, confirm available options before booking so you know how sessions are held. Francesca aims to help clients integrate therapeutic work into everyday life through focused conversations and small, achievable steps.