About Francisco
Francisco Olmos is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in California. He has ten years of experience and focuses on helping people talk through stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, depression, and relationship concerns.
Background and approach
Francisco offers sessions in English and Spanish and aims to make the first step into therapy feel manageable. He creates an open, nonjudgmental space where clients can name painful feelings.
In sessions he listens closely and helps people sort through what matters most in their lives. Conversations are direct and practical so people can notice small changes between meetings.
Francisco uses approaches that connect current struggles to important relationships and life stories. He blends skills-based work with deeper exploration of attachment and personal meaning.
This helps people who want to change how they respond to stress, improve tough relationships, or rebuild after loss. Sessions may include learning new ways to manage anxiety, trying short behavioral experiments, or using mindfulness to steady difficult emotions.
He also supports clients wrestling with identity, career shifts, parenting roles, and long-standing patterns like codependency or low self-esteem. People seeking help can expect collaborative planning and clear steps between sessions.
Francisco works with clients to set realistic goals and adapt strategies over time. He encourages small, practical changes that add up to better day-to-day coping.
Therapeutic approaches for online work
Attachment-based work focuses on how early and current relationships shape feelings and reactions. Online sessions use conversation and reflection to trace patterns and build new ways of relating when old ways cause pain.Client-centered therapy centers the person’s own goals and timing. The therapist offers acceptance and careful listening so clients can find clarity and make choices that feel right for them.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy itself. Francisco will explore a client’s needs, goals, and preferences and tailor the mix of methods together with the client. This collaborative process helps keep work focused and practical as problems and priorities change.
Online formats offer flexibility to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions are useful when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are available for shorter check-ins or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to maintain momentum between sessions and to schedule care around work, caregiving, or other obligations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish