Meet the Team

Email : frances@gmstherapy.com

Psychotherapist

Frances has treated children, adolescents, families, and adults for over a decade. Frances intends to help individuals and families “grow and love well,” and to empower them with the skills and insights to build meaningful relationships, find solutions to problems, and live a full human experience. Frances offers her compassion, creativity, and clinical skills to help families and individuals on their path toward connection, healing and growth. 

Frances integrates relational, psychodynamic, and trauma-informed approaches, as well as play therapy, art therapy, talk therapy and into her individual, family and group therapy work. 

Frances has experience working with behavioral concerns, attachment concerns, trauma, grief, depressive symptoms, and anxiety symptoms. She tailors her therapeutic approach to meet the unique needs and goals of individuals and families, employing a collaborative and strengths-based approach to empower them to overcome obstacles and achieve big and small victories.

Frances is trained in the following evidence-based models:

• Attachment Biobehavioral Catch-up Intervention

• Circle of Security Parenting Intervention

• Parent-Child Interaction Therapy-Toddler

• Parent-Child Interaction Therapy

• Child-Parent Psychotherapy.

Frances is affiliated with Mary’s Center where she offers individual, family, and group therapy, and specializes in infant and early childhood mental health, treating babies and young children 0-7 yrs old, with their parents. 

Frances is a bilingual (Spanish-English) licensed mental health provider in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Connecticut. She received her Bachelor of Social Work from La Sierra University, Master of Social Work from the University of Connecticut, and Graduate Certificate in Early Childhood Mental Health from Georgetown University.