Francine Owens , LCSW

Francine Owens is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 28 years of experience based in Tennessee. She focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, bipolar disorder, and depression. Francine aims to help people find steadier footing when life feels overwhelming and painful.

Her sessions are warm, respectful, and nonjudgmental. She listens closely and helps clients identify patterns that keep them stuck. Conversations move toward small, practical changes that can improve daily life.

Francine uses a mix of methods to match each person's needs. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address unhelpful thoughts and avoidant habits. She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotion regulation and Client-Centered techniques to keep the work grounded in each person's values.

Her practice supports people dealing with adoption and foster care questions, aging and geriatric concerns, cancer, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, codependency, communication and control issues, grief, divorce and separation, family problems, gender dysphoria, and related struggles. Those concerns are woven into practical, goal-focused conversations.

Francine trained at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center School of Social Work, earning a Master of Science in Social Work. She brings nearly three decades of clinical experience to each session and welcomes people from diverse backgrounds, including LGBTQ and non-binary individuals.

Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without being ruled by them and then take steps toward what matters most. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress when values-driven action is the goal. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and changing thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. It works well for depression, anxiety, and mood symptoms by teaching practical, testable skills.

Choosing the right approach is part of the early work in therapy. Francine collaborates with each person to pick methods that fit their goals, needs, and comfort level. That may mean combining skill-based work from CBT with the values focus of ACT or using Client-Centered ways of building trust first.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for full sessions and face-to-face connection. Phone sessions can fit a tight schedule or avoid the need for video. Chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins, skill reminders, and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options help people keep therapy consistent when travel, work, caregiving, or health concerns make in-person visits difficult.