About Francesco
Francesco Rizzo helps people deal with stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, and grief. He also supports people facing relationship worries, intimacy issues, sleep problems, parenting strain, and career stress.
Background and approach
Francesco is a licensed marriage and family therapist in New Jersey and has practiced for 13 years. He uses clear, straightforward work in sessions.
Conversations focus on what is most pressing and practical. He listens for patterns that keep problems repeating and helps people try different responses in day-to-day life.
Francesco draws on client-centered work to keep the conversation grounded in each person's values and goals. He uses cognitive behavioral ideas to change unhelpful thoughts and habits.
He also brings emotionally-focused and mindfulness tools for improving connection and reducing overwhelm. In sessions he pays attention to identity and the particular challenges faced by LGBTQ people.
He also supports those working through trauma, addiction recovery, bipolar mood concerns, and caregiving strain. Francesco helps people manage burnout and compassion fatigue while strengthening self-esteem and coping skills.
Practical work is common in his approach: communication exercises, thought-restructuring, and short at-home practices. He helps people map small steps that fit into busy lives.
The aim is steady progress people can notice between sessions.
How Francesco’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's goals and values and creates room for their priorities to guide each session. It helps with clarity, self-acceptance, and choosing what matters most in daily life. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical techniques to change them, which can be helpful for anxiety, depression, and sleep problems. Emotionally-focused therapy concentrates on emotions and attachment patterns to improve how people connect and communicate in close relationships.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and suggest ways to try different methods. This collaborative process lets the therapist and client see what fits best and adjust over time.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and exercises. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text messaging suit short check-ins, ongoing coaching-style support, or days when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to keep momentum and stay consistent with therapy.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English