Francesca Harland-Davis, BACP

Francesca Harland-Davis holds BACP credentials - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - and brings humour, warmth, and straightforwardness to her therapeutic work. With three years of experience, she focuses on supporting neurodivergent and disabled people who often find the world exhausting to navigate, offering a space where they do not have to mask, explain, or prove themselves.

She approaches therapy with realness and compassion, believing that healing begins when someone feels genuinely seen rather than judged. Francesca helps clients who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship difficulties, and LGBT-related concerns, alongside a wide range of related struggles such as abandonment, attachment issues, body image, caregiver stress, chronic pain or illness, communication problems, and life transitions.

In sessions she works with the client’s brain rather than against it - breaking challenges into manageable steps, using creative problem-solving, and adapting strategies so they fit the individual rather than forcing neurotypical approaches. She explores unhelpful patterns without judgment, validates lived experience, and supports the unlearning of shame tied to feeling "too much" or "not enough." Practical tools for managing overwhelm, setting boundaries, and navigating environments that lack accommodation are central to her work.

Whether a person needs clear structure or a more free-flowing space to process, Francesca adapts to what is helpful. Her aim is to co-create a therapy experience that fits each person’s needs, so healing never feels like trying to squeeze into a box that wasn’t built for them.

Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care

Francesca uses practical, evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to the needs of neurodivergent and disabled clients. One element of her work is skills-based techniques - breaking tasks into small, manageable steps, teaching practical strategies for managing overwhelm, and building tools for setting boundaries and pacing activity. These approaches are useful for stress, burnout, and difficulties with day-to-day functioning.

She also draws on attachment-informed and trauma-aware ways of working - exploring relationship patterns, experiences of abandonment, and the ways past hurts shape current connections. This exploration helps people make sense of recurring dynamics and find different ways to relate that feel safer and more effective.

Finding the right blend of approaches is a collaborative process. Francesca works with each person to identify what fits their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting the balance of structure and open processing as the work unfolds. Sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Online work makes it easier to access therapy from different locations, fit sessions around busy lives, and choose the communication style that feels most comfortable, while still working with licensed professionals and therapists who will guide the process.