About Francesca Rossellini, LAMFT, PhD

I believe that healing does not need to take years of arduous struggle and expense. Combining more than twenty years of mind-body healing work with evidence-based approaches and research in neuroscience, my goal is to meet you where you are and help you get to the happiest and healthiest you can be.

I provide virtual therapy for adults recovering from narcissistic abuse, trauma, and emotionally abusive relationships.

Much of my work today is with people recovering from narcissistic abuse—whether that happened in a romantic relationship, marriage, family, workplace, or another important relationship. By the time many of my clients find me, they've spent so much time trying to understand someone else's behavior that they've almost stopped trusting their own.

My work isn't about spending the rest of your life analyzing the narcissistic person. It's about understanding what happened, healing what it did to you, and helping you get your life back.

The Qualifications, for Those of You Who Are Interested in That Stuff

After receiving my undergraduate degree in Social Science, I continued my studies at The American Institute of Holistic Theology and Touro University Worldwide, earning Master's and Doctorate degrees in Metaphysics and a Master's degree in Marriage and Family Therapy along the way.

I am a Licensed Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (Idaho LAMFT 9044) and I am trained in EMDR.

My background also includes training in orthomolecular approaches and more than twenty years of mind-body healing work. That broader understanding of the relationship between the mind and body continues to inform how I work with people recovering from narcissistic abuse and trauma.

The No Bullshit Approach

I wrote the book The No Bullshit Way to Heal — which pretty much sums up my approach and how I live my life.

I'm warm and compassionate, but I'm also direct. I don't believe you need to spend years going around in circles or analyzing every possible reason someone treated you the way they did.

We'll talk about what happened. We'll make sense of it. But we'll also pay attention to what is happening to you now — and what is going to help you move forward.

There will be difficult conversations. There will also be humor. I laugh with my clients, and sometimes being able to laugh at the sheer absurdity of something you've lived through can be healing in its own right.

My goal isn't to tell you what to do or become another person whose opinion you learn to trust more than your own.

It's to help you understand what happened, heal from its effects, and become increasingly confident in trusting yourself again.

You Don't Have to Have It All Figured Out Before You Reach Out

You don't need to know exactly what happened to you.

You don't need to be certain that what you experienced was narcissistic abuse.

And you don't need to arrive with a perfectly organized list of everything you want to work on.

You may simply know that something hasn't felt right for a long time. You don't feel like yourself anymore. You're exhausted from questioning everything, or you've reached the point where you're ready to stop organizing your life around somebody else's behavior.

That's enough to start.

We can figure out the rest together.

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