Compassionate and Collaborative Support

​

Frankie offers a warm and compassionate space for adults seeking to explore their thoughts, emotions, and experiences. Together, you’ll address the root causes of unwanted behaviors and relational patterns often shaped by past experiences and societal influences. Frankie helps clients deepen their sense of embodiment, build self-trust and self-compassion, and live authentically in alignment with their values.

​

Who Frankie Works With:

• Individuals navigating developmental or complex trauma

• Those experiencing mid-life transitions or major life changes

• Clients facing existential or identity concerns

• People dealing with relationship and communication challenges

• Those struggling with anxiety, stress, burnout, or seeking personal growth

• Individuals interested in depth-oriented, nature-based, or somatic therapy​

​

Frankie has a special affinity for working with creative, intense, complex, gifted, and highly sensitive individuals, as well as 2SLGBTQIA+ and multicultural communities. Committed to being anti-racist and anti-oppressive, her approach respects and values diverse identities.

​

In sessions, Frankie fosters safety and rapport through a collaborative approach, bringing a person-centered, compassionate, and engaged presence. She values your expertise, welcomes feedback, and uses humor where appropriate. Frankie prioritizes your physical and emotional comfort, working at a pace and depth that feels right for you.

​

Before becoming a clinical social worker, Frankie spent years as a garden and farm-based educator, working with K-12 students, beginning and refugee farmers, and in landscape design and performing arts. This diverse background enriches her therapeutic practice, providing a unique perspective.

Available Services:

• In-Person: Offices in Durham and Chapel Hill

• Virtual: Across North Carolina

 

Certifications & Experience

• Licensed Clinical Worker Associate

• Masters Degree in Social Work from the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical University and the University of North Carolina, Greensboro (Joint Program)  

• Bachelors in Conservation and Resource Studies, UC Berkeley  

• Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate  

• Emotion Focused Individual Therapy Training Level 1 & 2 

• Movement Therapy Practitioner Certification          

• Internal Family Systems (6 month IFS Inner Circle Training Certificate)

• Embodied Individuation

• Negrido Applied Jungian Psychology

• Albedo Applied Jungian Psychology  

• Dream Interpretation and Appreciation

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

• Existential Therapy, Psychotherapy and Counseling

• Ecotherapy Certificate  

• Nature-Informed Attachment Therapy

• Good Grief Network Eco Grief/Eco Anxiety

• Peer Support Group Facilitator Certificate

• Transformational Life Coaching 

​

​​​

frankie.entzel@birchcounselingdurham.com

​

​

​

​