About Flora
Flora Pazos is a licensed mental health counselor with 25 years of experience working in Florida. She speaks English and Spanish and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes. Flora uses practical, goal-oriented methods to help people move forward.
She emphasizes respect, dignity, and each person’s right to make their own choices. Flora adapts sessions to meet individual needs and teaches concrete strategies people can use between meetings.
Background and approach
She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also uses Client-Centered Therapy to build a supportive space where people can explore their concerns at their own pace. For those facing trauma, grief, addiction, or relationship struggles, she combines mindfulness and solution-focused techniques to create short-term goals and steady progress.
Her approach includes attention to intimacy issues, parenting stress, and challenges like ADHD or bipolar disorder when they affect daily life. Flora also addresses issues related to abandonment, adoption and foster care, and aging concerns. Sessions may include skills practice, guided reflection, and steps to test new ways of coping.
She encourages people to notice small changes and build on them over time. Her work is practical, direct, and tailored to the person’s goals. Outside of therapeutic methods, Flora brings patience and clear communication to each appointment.
She helps people identify what matters to them and then maps out achievable next steps to get there.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a respectful therapeutic relationship. It helps people feel understood and supported while they decide what changes matter most.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical exercises to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful patterns in daily life.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as needed.
Online work can be flexible and easier to fit into busy schedules. Video calls let for face-to-face conversation when visual cues are helpful. Phone sessions take less bandwidth and can be a good option for a quick check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to use short messages for coping strategies, brief reflections, or scheduling between sessions. These options allow people to keep momentum and apply skills in the moments they need them most.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida, New Jersey
- Languages
- English, Spanish