Reclaim your body.
Enhance intimacy.
Heal.
A cancer focused, sex-positive, unconditional space.
My name is Francesca Caponi, my pronouns are she/her and I have a sex-therapy private practice space here in Austin, Texas.
It’s cliche, but true. Cancer sucks.
Whether you're in the middle of treatment, survivorship, or struggling with lingering physical or emotional effects years later — I want to support you.
We might feel like our world has been upended, our body attacked not just by the cancer but by side effects from medicine and treatments. The worry over recurrence could be keeping you up at night, maybe lack of intimacy or desire is tugging at the fringes of your relationship(s).
I take a gentle, collaborative approach to counseling. I meet you where you are to honor your unique history, patterns/trauma, identities, interests, and desires. My style is strengths-based and person-centered, meaning I view you as the expert on your life experiences and support you in receiving what you need from therapy.
I often offer body-awareness techniques to address what is happening somatically for you during sessions, and take special care and attention to support trauma, grief, or other big emotions during our time together.
Cancer can be so dissociating, we just put our head down and get through it. In my therapeutic space I will support you in finding re-connection; with yourself, your partner(s); enhancing your quality of life and reclaiming your body.
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Individual Sessions
Schedule individual sessions to find support for sexual functioning, painful sex, lack of libido, ED, survivorship, or treatment related anxiety/depression to name a few.
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Couples Sessions
Common reasons couples come to me are to support barriers such as desire discrepancy, sexual functioning, lack of intimacy, role conflicts (caregiver/partner), or communication. *This is not an exhaustive list.
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Group Therapy
This is a place to find support and build connection with others who are struggling with rediscovering their sexual identity after cancer treatment.
*Group offerings rotate.
Schedule a consult for free and see if it’s right for you.
There’s no commitment, pressure, or obligation.