Francisca Norma Pereira Martins, ACA

Francisca Norma Pereira Martins is an Australia-based counselor with nine years of experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, grief, anger, and major life transitions. She draws on a client-centered approach that emphasizes each person's existing strengths and capacity for change, while also integrating cognitive behavioral therapy and solution-focused techniques to help clients develop practical coping strategies and healthier patterns of thinking.

Working with women, couples, and children, she focuses on building resilience and promoting behavior change through strengths exploration and collaborative goal setting. Her additional areas of emphasis include caregiver stress, communication challenges, control issues, forgiveness work, feelings of guilt and shame, clarifying life purpose, cultivating self-love, and addressing workplace concerns.

Francisca holds the ACA credential, which indicates a recognized professional qualification in counseling, and she offers therapy in both English and Portuguese. She approaches therapy with respect for each person's story, encourages clients to see themselves as the experts of their own lives, and aims to empower them to make decisions that support wellbeing and meaningful change.