Frances "Tansie" Walker, LMHC

Therapist in Florida

Frances "Tansie" Walker is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 34 years of clinical experience.

Licensed inFlorida
LicenseMH11198
NPI 1649291477
Experience34+ years
LanguagesEnglish

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About Frances

Frances "Tansie" Walker is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 34 years of clinical experience. She brings a calm, practical style to sessions and focuses on helping people find clearer ways forward when life feels overwhelming. She practices in Florida and works primarily in English.

Her approach centers on building trust and understanding how early attachments shape current relationships. She blends client-centered conversation with tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to address stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma.

Background and approach

Sessions also address relationship and intimacy issues, including communication, commitment, infidelity, and non-monogamous relationship concerns. Tansie draws on decades of counseling work plus experience teaching at the college level to help people sort through career stress, compassion fatigue, and life transitions. She also supports those struggling with addictions, codependency, abandonment wounds, and blended family challenges.

Her style is direct but compassionate, aiming to make discussions clear and manageable. In therapy she and the client set practical goals together and track progress over time. Expect conversational sessions with concrete strategies to change unhelpful thoughts and repair emotional connections.

She also uses coaching techniques when clients want focused steps for career or life changes. Her background includes a Master of Science in Counseling and an Education Specialist degree in Family Systems. Tansie combines clinical experience with a values-informed perspective to help people regain hope, restore balance, and move forward.

Credentials

LMHC (Florida): License MH11198 · expires March 2027
NPI: 1649291477 · national provider identifier

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Focus areas and approaches

Everything Frances lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

Stress, Anxiety
Relationship issues
Trauma and abuse
Grief
Depression
Addictions
Family conflicts
Intimacy-related issues
Self esteem
Career difficulties
Coping with life changes
Coaching
Compassion fatigue
Abandonment
Attachment issues
Blended family issues
Codependency
Commitment issues
Communication problems
Divorce and separation
Drug and alcohol addiction
Infidelity
Jealousy
Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships

Approaches Frances names

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Online support

How attachment work and practical techniques translate online

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions use conversation and reflective exercises to notice attachment reactions and to practice new ways of relating. This approach can help with relationship strain, abandonment wounds, and intimacy concerns.

Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental space where the client’s experience leads the work. In virtual sessions the therapist listens, mirrors concerns, and helps clients name priorities so they can set realistic goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets specific thoughts and behaviors; exercises and worksheets are easy to share during video calls or via messaging to practice between sessions.

Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively to match methods to the client’s goals, needs, and preferences. That might mean focusing on emotional repair in one phase and shifting to skill-building in another.

Online formats offer practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for emotional work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let clients send updates, ask questions, or try short reflections between appointments. These options make regular contact more flexible around busy schedules and life responsibilities.

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Frequently asked

What types of concerns does she address?

She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, relationship and intimacy issues, addictions, and challenges like codependency and communication problems.

How would you describe her therapeutic style?

Her style is client-centered and collaborative, combining attachment-based perspectives with CBT and emotionally-focused work to create practical steps and deeper emotional repair.

What is her professional background?

She has 34 years of experience offering counseling and has taught at the college level, bringing both clinical and educational experience to sessions.

What credentials and location apply to her practice?

She is a FL LMHC practicing in Florida.

Which languages are supported and can international clients work with her?

Sessions are offered in English and she is not accepting international clients.

What session formats are available for appointments?

She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different communication needs.

How does billing and cost work for sessions?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

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