About Florence
Prof. Florence Chichester helps people handle stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and life changes. She is a New York licensed mental health counselor with 15 years of clinical experience.
Florence writes plainly and offers steady, practical support for everyday struggles. Florence uses a person-centered way of working. She listens closely and focuses on what the client wants to change.
Sessions often include straightforward tools to manage symptoms, improve communication, and build self-esteem.
How Florence works
Goals are set together and revised as progress is made. Her background includes long experience with trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people dealing with parenting challenges, sleep and eating concerns, chronic illness, and career questions.
Florence pays attention to attachment patterns and how past relationships shape current behavior. Therapy may draw on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking. Emotionally-focused and attachment-based ideas guide work on intimacy and relationship patterns.
Existential conversations help when people face big life questions or shifting roles. Florence aims for a calm, practical tone in sessions. She helps people try new ways of handling old problems and checks in on what is working.
People leave with skills to cope better day to day and clearer steps toward longer-term change.
Florence lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
What Florence works with
The areas below are the ones Florence 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
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Florence often combines attachment-based work with cognitive behavioral tools to help people understand patterns in relationships and change unhelpful thoughts. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early bonds influence current behavior and helps people build healthier ways of relating. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting thought patterns that lead to distress and practicing different responses to reduce symptoms.She also draws on client-centered principles, which put the person's goals and experience at the center of each session. Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit, and adjust the plan together as progress is observed.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls let people use visual cues for deeper conversations, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging work well for shorter check-ins, coaching-style feedback, or maintaining momentum between longer appointments.
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