About Flora
Flora Pazos is a licensed mental health counselor and licensed professional counselor with 25 years of experience. She practices in Florida and offers therapy in English and Spanish. Flora focuses on practical support for everyday struggles and longer-term emotional challenges.
She helps people manage stress and anxiety, work through depression, and cope with major life changes. Flora also supports those dealing with trauma, grief, addiction concerns, relationship and intimacy issues, and challenges like ADHD or bipolar mood concerns.
Background and approach
Her approach is aimed at clear goals and steady progress. Flora blends several approaches to fit each person. She uses client-centered methods to listen closely and build on strengths.
She applies cognitive behavioral ideas to help change patterns that cause distress. Solution-focused and mindfulness strategies are used to teach simple tools people can use between sessions. Sessions are adapted to what each person needs.
Conversations focus on practical steps, learning new coping strategies, and trying small changes that add up. Flora emphasizes dignity, respect, and encouraging clients to guide their own goals. She accepts international clients and offers a range of session formats to match different routines.
New clients complete a short questionnaire to get matched and then schedule sessions according to availability. Flora aims to be straightforward and helpful from the first meeting.
Approaches and practical online care
Flora often blends client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral work. Client-centered Therapy means she centers the conversation on the person's goals and values, offering empathy and support while clients lead the topics. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors, which can help with anxiety, stress, and mood concerns.She also uses solution-focused and mindfulness techniques to teach short, usable tools. Solution-Focused Therapy looks for small, concrete steps that move a person toward their goals. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices that reduce reactivity and improve everyday coping. Flora treats finding the right approach as a team effort; she discusses options and adjusts methods based on a client's needs, goals, and preferences so therapy feels practical and personal.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different lives. Video lets people replicate a clinic-style visit while staying at home. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins or flexible communication between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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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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