About Frances
Frances "Tansie" Walker brings decades of practical counseling experience to her work. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Florida with 34 years in the field. Tansie focuses on clear, down-to-earth support for people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, depression, addiction, and life transitions.
Her style is straightforward and collaborative. She listens without judgment and helps people set realistic goals. Sessions aim to build coping skills, improve communication, and restore a sense of control over daily life.
Background and approach
Tansie uses a mix of approaches tailored to each person. She draws on attachment-based ideas to understand relationship patterns and on cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. Emotionally-focused work helps when relationship feelings are intense.
She also integrates client-centered and existential perspectives to keep therapy grounded in each person’s values and life meaning. That blend allows practical skills work alongside deeper conversations about purpose and hope. People who reach out often want help with communication problems, commitment and intimacy issues, blended family challenges, or struggles with substances.
Tansie also supports those coping with abandonment, infidelity, jealousy, codependency, and major life changes. Her background includes graduate study in counseling and family systems and many years teaching in higher education. That experience shapes a paced, experienced approach that aims to help people gain insight, make clearer choices, and move forward.
Therapeutic approaches for online support
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationship patterns shape how people connect and trust others. It can help when communication, abandonment fears, or intimacy issues keep repeating in relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers tools to change unhelpful patterns that fuel anxiety and depression. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people notice and name strong emotions and use that understanding to improve closeness and repair conflicts.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and concerns. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made so the work fits practical needs and values.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face-to-face when visual cues matter. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and messaging offer short check-ins or ongoing written reflection between sessions. These formats make it easier to attend sessions from different locations and schedules while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 34 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English