About Flora
Flora Pazos is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) and a licensed professional counselor (LPC) practicing in Florida. She brings 25 years of clinical experience to her work and speaks both English and Spanish. Flora emphasizes practical, goal-focused work that helps people move forward from overwhelming moments.
She meets people where they are and adapts sessions to each person’s needs. Flora uses straightforward strategies to build on strengths and teach coping skills.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to leave people with tools they can use between meetings. Flora regularly addresses stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, and addiction concerns. She also helps people facing relationship strain, parenting challenges, intimacy questions, ADHD, bipolar concerns, and life changes like divorce or illness.
She pays attention to how multiple problems interact so plans feel realistic. Her approach blends client-centered listening with techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and solution-focused methods. Mindfulness and existential ideas also appear when people want to examine meaning and values.
The work is collaborative - Flora and the person identify goals and practical steps together. People can expect a calm, respectful tone and clear suggestions for behavior and thought changes. Flora supports coping with anger, low self-esteem, codependency, compassion fatigue, and other stresses.
She aims to help people find steadier footing and clearer next steps.
Approaches and online options that fit your life
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person’s experience, then helping them set their own goals and make decisions that feel right. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and teaches practical techniques to change unhelpful patterns. Solution-focused therapy zeroes in on small, concrete steps and short-term goals to build momentum and problem solving.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Flora will work with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences, and she adjusts the plan as progress is made. The aim is to combine what feels most useful with clear steps a person can try between sessions.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make counseling more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit a walk or a break from work with lower bandwidth, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text messaging works for quick reflections or notes between appointments. These options make it easier to schedule regular work on stress, ADHD-related challenges, relationships, or grief without a long commute.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida, New Jersey
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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