About Florence
Prof. Florence Chichester is a licensed mental health counselor with 15 years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, grief, and ADHD. She offers straightforward support for relationship strains, difficulties with intimacy, parenting stress, work-related pressure, and major life changes.
Her manner is warm and down-to-earth and she focuses on practical steps people can try between sessions. Florence uses a person-focused style that centers the client's goals and strengths.
Background and approach
She listens for what matters most to each person, then helps set clear, manageable steps toward change. Conversations stay concrete - identifying patterns, testing new behaviors, and reflecting on what works and what doesn't. Her work draws on Attachment-Based Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to look at how relationships shape feelings and behavior.
She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions to find small, testable changes. These approaches are used together to match what a person needs in the moment. Florence has supported people through trauma, addiction concerns, sleep and eating problems, and career transitions.
She is comfortable addressing complex backgrounds like adoption, attachment issues, and caregiver stress. Her goal is to help each person build skills that fit into daily life. Sessions are offered from New York and conducted in English.
Florence holds a New York Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential and brings a steady, practical approach to therapy.
Therapeutic approaches and online options that meet you where you are
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current feelings and behavior. It helps people notice repetitive interaction cycles and practice new ways of connecting that reduce distress in close relationships.Emotionally-Focused Therapy focuses on identifying and naming emotions in the moment. That clarity can help people shift stuck patterns in relationships and improve emotional closeness and trust.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Florence will listen to a person’s history, goals, and preferences, and then suggest which methods to try first. The plan is collaborative and can change as new needs emerge.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules and different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for people who prefer writing, want brief check-ins, or need to manage mood between scheduled sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel routines while keeping the focus on progress and practical skills.
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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
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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