Frances "Tansie" Walker

Frances "Tansie" Walker, LMHC, brings decades of clinical practice to work with individuals, teens, parents, families, and couples in Florida. She combines counseling and coaching with life experience to address the whole person, including body, mind, and spirit. Her areas of focus include stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, addictions, relationship and intimacy challenges, work and career issues, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses attachment and abandonment concerns, codependency, blended family dynamics, divorce and separation, and non-monogamous relationship questions. 

Walker draws on an integrated set of methods, including attachment-based perspectives, client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral strategies, and emotionally focused techniques, along with existential and Gottman-informed elements when working with couples. She offers a caring Christian perspective while respecting each person’s beliefs and values. Her approach seeks to identify goals and work collaboratively toward the outcomes people hope to achieve. 

Her formal training includes an M.S. in Counseling and an Ed.S. in Family Systems from Georgia State University, with undergraduate study in psychology and sociology. In addition to more than three decades of counseling practice, she has experience as a college faculty member, which informs her commitment to thoughtful, informed care.