About Francine
Francine Owens is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, bipolar disorder, and depression. She practices from Tennessee and brings nearly three decades of clinical experience to sessions. Her style is warm, respectful, and nonjudgmental, aimed at helping people feel heard and understood.
Francine uses practical tools from several therapeutic approaches to help people change unhelpful patterns and feel more in control. She works with concerns like caregiving stress, chronic illness, grief around cancer, family conflict, divorce, and issues tied to adoption and foster care.
Background and approach
She also addresses feelings such as guilt, shame, and problems with communication or control. Sessions focus on clear goals and everyday steps. Techniques may include learning new ways of thinking, building emotion regulation skills, and practicing acceptance of difficult feelings.
Francine emphasizes collaboration, helping each person decide which methods fit their life and values. Her practice is inclusive and affirming of LGBTQ and gender-diverse people. Francine aims to create a calm space for people to address painful memories and current struggles.
She guides people toward practical changes that support a more meaningful life. With 28 years of experience and an MSSW from the University of Tennessee at Memphis School of Social Work, Francine blends clinical knowledge with a compassionate approach. She welcomes conversations about goals and next steps for anyone considering therapy in Tennessee or beyond.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on clarifying personal values and taking concrete steps that match those values, which can help with anxiety, depression, and ongoing stress.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try different behaviors to change outcomes. It is practical and goal-focused, often useful for depression, anxiety, and mood regulation.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. Francine will work with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and day-to-day life. That choice can change over time as needs shift and progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people work face-to-face when schedules allow. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or for a quieter check-in. Live chat and text messaging support brief check-ins, ongoing skill practice, or help between longer sessions. These options make therapy easier to fit into work, caregiving routines, or travel while keeping the focus on meaningful change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English