Therapy Services in Fairhope, AL | Dr. France Frederick, Ph.D.

Individual Therapy

For successful professionals, business owners, and high-functioning people who have built lives they are proud of and are still struggling privately. The work is not about labeling what is wrong with you. It is about understanding what is true about you, and using that to change what actually matters.

Couples Therapy

For couples in real difficulty and for couples who simply know the relationship could be more than it currently is. The first session is ninety minutes. Both partners attend. The work is not about assigning blame or picking sides. It is about understanding the dynamic between you so we can start working with it instead of around it.

Marriage Counseling

Some couples come to marriage counseling in crisis. Others come because they recognize subtle erosion and want to stop it before it becomes irreversible. Either way, the willingness to show up is what matters. The work addresses communication, trust, intimacy, and the patterns that have quietly hardened over years.

Family Therapy

Families are systems. When one part shifts, everything shifts with it. Sessions are active, not passive. You may practice a difficult conversation right in the office, try a new way of responding to each other, or work through a conflict that usually escalates at home. The work is structured toward specific goals.

Depression and Anxiety

Depression and anxiety do not always announce themselves. For many high-functioning people, the struggle is internal: you show up, manage your responsibilities, navigate relationships, and no one suspects what the effort costs you. The work is targeted. We address the patterns of thought and behavior that maintain the problem, the underlying factors that feed it, and the changes that actually move it.

Premarital Counseling

Strong marriages tend to start with a few honest conversations that other couples never get around to having. Premarital work covers how you argue, how you handle money, what family involvement actually looks like, and the assumptions about parenthood that often go unspoken. Most couples find four to eight sessions is enough.

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Divorce Counseling

For people contemplating the end of a marriage and for people already in the middle of it. Some come in to sort through whether to stay or go. Others come in to navigate the emotional, practical, and co-parenting realities of separation. Divorce is not a failure of character. It is a major life transition that deserves real attention.

Child and Adolescent Therapy

For younger children, I use play therapy: the developmentally appropriate way for a child to show what they cannot yet say. For teenagers, I work with the same respect for autonomy that any thoughtful adult deserves. Adolescence is a developmental stage that creates stress for the entire family system, not just the teenager, and the work usually accounts for that.

Currently part of Family Therapy. Reach out if you want to talk through whether this is the right fit for your child.

Telehealth Therapy

Real sessions on video, from anywhere in Alabama. Same clinical work, no two-hour round trip. Many clients use a mix of in-person and telehealth depending on their schedules. Useful for working professionals, parents, college students keeping continuity with the same therapist while away at school, and anyone who lives outside a comfortable drive of Fairhope. HIPAA-compliant and secure.

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Psychological Testing and Evaluation

Comprehensive assessment when a clearer answer would change the direction of treatment. Useful for diagnostic clarification, for ADHD or learning concerns, for mood and anxiety presentations that have not responded to standard care, and for situations where therapy and assessment together open more than either would on its own. Available alongside therapy in this practice or as a stand-alone service.

Schedule a phone consultation to discuss whether assessment is the right next step.

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