Understand what shaped you.
Transform what comes next.
Highly individualized, culturally sensitive psychotherapy for navigating the effects of trauma, understanding patterns shaped by past experiences, and creating meaningful change.
The effects of trauma rarely stay in the past
Trauma can continue to shape your life long after the experience itself has passed. With complex trauma, those effects can become woven into how you see yourself, respond to stress, and connect with the people around you. Sometimes those connections are clear. Other times, you simply recognize that certain reactions or patterns keep repeating, even when you understand them intellectually and want something to change.
The meaning and impact of trauma are deeply individual. Your history matters, but so do your relationships, culture, identity, and the life you are living now. I tailor therapy to the way these experiences have come together for you, rather than relying on a single approach or predetermined formula.
Together, we can examine what continues to affect you and develop a deeper understanding of the patterns that have taken shape over time. That understanding can open new possibilities for how you relate to yourself, engage with others, and move forward with greater intention.
Areas of focus
Trauma and complex trauma
Trauma and complex trauma can continue to shape how you feel, relate to others, and move through your life long after the original experiences. Therapy can help you understand how those experiences still affect you and begin changing the patterns that developed around them.
Intergenerational trauma
Trauma can influence families across generations, shaping beliefs, relationships, and patterns that may be difficult to recognize. Therapy can help bring those patterns into clearer view and create room for something different.
Professional burnout and life challenges
Sustained pressure, major transitions, or a growing sense that something no longer fits can leave you feeling disconnected from what matters most. Therapy can create space to reassess, regain perspective, and move toward a life that feels more aligned.
A depth of experience. Care centered on the individual.
Dr. Fabiana Franco is an accomplished clinical psychologist with more than two decades of experience in practice, research, and teaching. Her work has focused extensively on trauma and the ways complex and intergenerational experiences can shape a person’s emotional life, relationships, and sense of self.
A former Clinical Professor of Psychology at The George Washington University, Dr. Franco has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and is a featured author for Psychology Today. She brings that depth of scholarship and clinical experience to thoughtful, culturally sensitive therapy that is individually tailored to each client’s history, needs, and goals.
A thoughtful, integrative approach
Dr. Franco draws from a broad range of therapeutic approaches, selecting and integrating methods according to each client’s history, needs, culture, and goals. Treatment is shaped thoughtfully over time, allowing the work to reflect both the complexity of the person and the circumstances that brought them to therapy.
Psychodynamic Therapy, Psychoanalytic Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, and Narrative Therapy
Psychodynamic Therapy, Psychoanalytic Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, and Narrative Therapy
Emotion-Focused Therapy, DBT, and mindfulness-based approaches
Emotionally Focused Therapy, Family Systems Therapy, and Structural Family Therapy
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Dr. Franco's recently published articles
Recognizing and Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder
Dr. Fabiana Franco’s article, “Recognizing and Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder,” was published in the Journal of Health Service Psychology, an official journal of the National Register
Differentiating DID, C-PTSD, and Dissociation
Dr. Fabiana Franco recently published an article on Psychology Today titled “Differentiating DID, C-PTSD, and Dissociation,” exploring how these closely related trauma conditions overlap while highlighting
Trauma, Resilience, and Recovery Trauma How Childhood Trauma Shapes Dissociative Identity Disorder
Dr. Fabiana Franco recently published an article on Psychology Today titled “How Childhood Trauma Shapes Dissociative Identity Disorder,” exploring how repeated childhood trauma can lead to