About Nuri
Nuri Chaves is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who brings ten years of experience to his work in Florida. He focuses on practical help for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, anger, and addiction. He also supports those facing relationship and intimacy issues, grief, and life changes.
His style centers on listening first and collaborating on goals. Sessions are shaped around each person's needs, and he mixes conversational work with specific strategies to manage symptoms.
Background and approach
He combines empathy with clear ideas you can try between sessions. Nuri often draws on acceptance and commitment methods to help people choose values-based action. He also uses cognitive behavioral tools to spot unhelpful thoughts and change patterns.
Attachment-informed work helps when past relationships affect how someone connects now. He has worked with people across many concerns, including LGBT issues, parenting stress, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and chronic illness. He also supports those coping with abandonment, adoption and foster care questions, body image, and blended family challenges.
His background includes coaching to promote lasting behavior change. Sessions can be held in English or Spanish. Nuri aims to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where people can try new ways of coping, feel heard, and make steady progress toward their goals.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while choosing actions that match their values. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and life transitions where people want clearer direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thought patterns and behaviors that keep problems going and teaching practical skills to change them; it works well for anxiety, depression, and many daily stressors. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship experiences influence present-day connections and can help when relationship patterns or intimacy issues cause distress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then suggest one or a mix of methods to try. That choice is collaborative and can change as needs evolve.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people use face-to-face conversation without travel, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth or visual focus is limited, live chat allows brief check-ins during a busy day, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping treatment consistent and flexible.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish