About Florcita
Florcita Hancock-Rios is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) practicing in North Carolina with 15 years of experience. She focuses on practical help for everyday problems, especially stress and anxiety. Her approach is warm and respectful and she encourages small, steady steps toward change.
She works with people who are struggling with parenting stress, anger, low self-esteem, and depression. She also supports those facing relationship and family problems, grief, trauma, and life transitions.
Background and approach
Florcita pays attention to how daily habits and thoughts affect mood and behavior. Her sessions are collaborative and tailored. She listens first, then suggests ways to try that fit each person’s life and goals.
Conversations aim to be clear and direct so clients can use what they learn between sessions. Florcita uses techniques from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral therapy, and mindfulness to help people manage symptoms and rebuild routines. She helps people notice unhelpful thinking patterns, practice new behaviors, and develop calmer responses to stressors.
People working with her can expect a practical focus on goals. She helps break problems into manageable steps and tracks progress over time. The emphasis is on skills you can use right away to feel more in control and less overwhelmed.
Approach-driven care for online therapy
Florcita uses client-centered work to put each person's goals first and listen carefully before suggesting steps. This approach focuses on understanding your priorities and adjusting sessions to match what matters most to you.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts and actions affect mood. CBT offers concrete tools to change unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors that reduce anxiety and improve coping.
Mindfulness therapy is used to build present-moment awareness and calmer responses to stress. Simple breathing and attention exercises are taught so they can be integrated into daily routines.
Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Florcita collaborates with clients to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. She may combine elements from different approaches as progress and preferences become clear.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls let you see facial expressions and use visual tools, phone sessions work well when video is not possible, live chat can be used for quicker check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different life situations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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