Rae Francis: Helping Givers Reclaim Balance and Connection

Rae Francis is a therapist and executive life coach who specializes in helping caring, intelligent people break free from overfunctioning and create relationships based on mutual care rather than one-sided giving. She combines attachment theory, trauma-informed care, and somatic therapy to help clients move from emotional exhaustion to authentic connection. With over 16 years of experience, Rae has developed a unique understanding of how childhood experiences shape our adult relationship patterns, particularly the ways we learn to earn love through usefulness. Find support for breaking caretaking cycles

Rae’s approach is rooted in compassion rather than criticism, recognizing that overfunctioning develops as an adaptive survival strategy in circumstances where love felt conditional on being helpful. Her work focuses on helping clients understand their caretaking patterns through a lens of adaptive protection rather than pathology, creating space for healing the wounds that taught them their worth depended on their exhaustion. She specializes in supporting individuals who find themselves constantly anticipating others’ needs, fixing problems before they’re asked, and struggling to ask for help without feeling like a burden.

Through virtual therapy and coaching sessions across the U.S., Rae creates a safe space for clients to explore their patterns with understanding rather than shame, developing practical tools for sustainable relationships where their full humanity is welcomed and valued. Whether you’re working to heal from experiences that taught you to abandon yourself for others’ comfort, struggling with chronic people-pleasing, or wanting to create more balanced give-and-take in your relationships, Rae’s integrative approach helps clients learn that they are worthy of love that doesn’t require their exhaustion.