About Florcita
Florcita Hancock-Rios is a licensed clinical mental health counselor in North Carolina with 15 years of professional experience. She focuses on practical, person-focused care and aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable. She approaches each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
Florcita helps people work through stress and anxiety using straightforward talk and goal-setting. She supports those dealing with depression, low self-esteem, anger, motivation issues, and career concerns.
How Florcita works
She also offers support for parenting challenges and parenting-related stress. Her practice includes attention to trauma and abuse, grief, eating concerns, bipolar disorder, and ADHD. She also helps with adoption and foster care questions, attachment issues, blended family concerns, and caregiver stress.
People bring communication problems, control issues, and family-of-origin struggles to sessions as well. Florcita uses client-centered methods to keep sessions focused on each person's experience. She also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and build practical skills.
Mindfulness practices may be added to help with emotional regulation and grounding. Sessions are shaped around individual needs and goals. Florcita tailors the conversation and treatment plan so people can try approaches that fit their life.
She aims to support and empower people as they work toward a more satisfying life.
Florcita lists 3 ways of working on the entry:
What Florcita works with
The areas below are the ones Florcita selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LCMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person's own experience and goals. The therapist listens closely and mirrors what is said so people can clarify what matters to them; this approach helps when someone needs validation and a nonjudgmental space to talk.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts influence feelings and behavior. Sessions teach concrete tools to challenge unhelpful thinking and try new actions, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems.
Mindfulness Therapy uses simple awareness exercises to help manage strong emotions and stay grounded in the present. Practices can be short and are easy to use between sessions for coping with difficult moments.
Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will help determine which methods match the client's goals, preferences, and day-to-day demands. They may combine approaches and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people connect face to face when convenient, while phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, ongoing skill practice, or steady contact between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep work on coping skills moving forward.
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