Francesca Redden, PACFA

Francesca Redden is a PACFA-credentialed counsellor in Australia with 10 years of professional experience. She helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem struggles, parenting pressures, anger, career changes and related concerns. Francesca also lists family matters and intimacy-related issues among her focus areas.

She works from a body-based somatic perspective that pays attention to how stress and trauma show up in the body. That means sessions can include noticing breath, movement and bodily responses as ways to reduce overwhelm and build resilience. Francesca describes her approach as trauma-informed and person-centred, which keeps the conversation grounded in the client's immediate needs and priorities.

Her practice draws on somatic work and somatic experiencing, alongside client-centred listening and mindfulness practices. Francesca also integrates Internal Family Systems ideas and inner child or parts work when helpful. These methods are used to address attachment concerns, abandonment wounds, and family-of-origin patterns that keep recurring.

People who come for support can expect practical pacing and resource-building. Sessions often focus on small, manageable steps to calm the nervous system and improve everyday coping. Francesca aims to help people find more ease in daily life while building confidence to manage relationship and parenting stresses.

She notes experience with a broad range of additional concerns including chronic illness, caregiver stress, body image, addiction-related codependency, divorce and separation, domestic violence, and grief tied to illness or loss. Francesca invites people to consider short-term coaching or longer therapeutic work depending on their needs.

How Francesca uses somatic and mindfulness work online