Frances Almstrom, LMFT

First of all, she has wonderful communication skills with her clients. She wasn't only guiding me to overcome my personal and conjugal crisis, but also she taught me how to live, how to enhance my self-trust. She has a great extent of motivation power. I would like to recommend her for everyone and definitely she would be a great choice.
Apr 21st, 2017

Apr 25th, 2015

While she did seem to make a bit of progress getting my spouse to think about the motivations for his inappropriate actions and accept some responsibility for them, she also enabled his abuse. When I disclosed, during a couples session, that my spouse had been sending me verbally abusive messages, instead of addressing them as abuse and unacceptable behavior, she instead said "Can you imagine how hurt he must have been to say those things?" Really?!?! She ompletely legitimized his abuse by immediately addressing ME instead of HIM and saying that to me. That was one step away from "Oh, well how hurt must he have been to hit you." That is completely unethical, unprofessional and I'm considering whether or not I need to file a board complaint. Don't go here if you are, in any way, suffering abusive behavior from your spouse because she will NOT call them out on it.
Feb 21st, 2020