About Flora
Flora Pazos is a licensed mental health counselor with 25 years of practice in Florida. She speaks English and Spanish and focuses on helping adults navigate stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, and relationship concerns. Flora aims to meet each person where they are and to build practical skills for everyday life.
She uses straightforward, goal-focused work. Sessions are shaped around what a person wants to change. Flora teaches strategies people can use between sessions to manage mood, reduce anxiety, and handle difficult decisions.
Background and approach
Her approach blends client-centered listening with techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness. That means she listens first, then helps people notice patterns in thinking and behavior. Mindfulness practices are used to reduce reactivity and improve focus on what matters most.
Flora also draws on solution-focused and existential ideas when helpful. She helps people identify immediate steps they can take and clarifies values that guide longer-term choices. This mix supports both quick, practical changes and deeper reflection about meaning and purpose.
Flora has worked with issues including trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, intimacy-related problems, bipolar disorder, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and a wide range of life transitions. Sessions may include skill practice, problem-solving, and planning for next steps. She aims to foster dignity, self-determination, and steady progress over time.
Therapeutic approaches and how online sessions work
Flora commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness approaches. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and build focus, which can help with stress, grief, and anger.She also draws on client-centered therapy, which means listening closely and shaping work around each person's goals. Finding the right approach is a team effort - the therapist and client discuss needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that suit the situation. This collaborative process allows adjustments over time if something isn’t working.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are helpful for a full-session conversation that mimics an in-person meeting. Phone sessions can fit into a work break or be used when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for short check-ins, homework support, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These formats aim to make it easier to access consistent care and to fit therapy into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- 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