About Flora
Flora Pazos is a licensed mental health counselor with 25 years of clinical experience. She practices in Florida and offers therapy in both English and Spanish. Flora focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, grief, and life changes.
She uses a straightforward, person-centered approach. Sessions focus on practical steps clients can take between meetings. She helps people identify strengths and build everyday coping skills to manage emotions and difficult situations.
How Flora works
Flora also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try new ways of thinking and behaving. Mindfulness practices are often introduced to reduce reactivity and increase emotional awareness. Solution-focused strategies help set clear, achievable goals and track progress session to session.
In sessions she listens closely and adapts methods to what each person needs. Conversations are collaborative and focused on realistic changes. Flora emphasizes respect, dignity, and the client’s own goals when planning treatment.
She works with a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, addictions, intimacy-related issues, parenting challenges, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. She also has experience supporting people facing abandonment, blended family issues, cancer, divorce, and other complex life situations. Therapy can be offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Flora helps people set clear goals and build skills that fit their day-to-day life.
Flora lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Flora works with
The areas below are the ones Flora selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Registers | LMHC, LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a strong working relationship. The therapist follows the person’s lead, reflects what comes up in session, and helps people find their own solutions to problems such as relationship strain or low self-esteem.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It teaches simple exercises to test unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. They will adjust methods as progress is made and new needs appear, keeping the process collaborative.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful when visual cues matter, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and short check-ins work well by chat or text. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between sessions.
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