Flora Pazos, LMHC, LPC

Flora Pazos is a licensed mental health counselor and licensed professional counselor with 25 years of clinical experience based in Florida. She speaks English and Spanish and focuses on practical help for everyday struggles. Her work centers on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, trauma, or life changes.

Flora uses a goal-oriented and individualized style. She focuses on teaching strategies people can use between sessions. That can mean learning new ways to cope with strong emotions, sharpening communication skills, or building routines that support stability and mood.

Her sessions aim to strengthen the client’s own resources. Flora blends client-centered listening with techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness. She also draws on existential and solution-focused ideas to help people clarify values and set realistic steps forward.

Flora has worked across many concerns including addictions, parenting strain, intimacy issues, anger, ADHD, bipolar challenges, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people facing abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, blended family stress, cancer-related strain, and the fallout from separation or domestic violence.

People who choose her often want a practical, collaborative approach. Flora helps clients set clear goals, practice new skills, and track small changes over time. To begin, clients use the continue button on this profile and complete a short matching questionnaire before scheduling.

How Flora’s approaches translate to online work

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening carefully and helping people feel heard. In practice this means the therapist follows the client’s lead, reflects concerns back, and helps clients name their own priorities and values. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is often useful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work together with the client to choose methods that match the person's goals, needs, and preferences. That might mean trying a skill-based exercise one week and a values-focused conversation the next.

The original profile does not list specific session formats, so confirm the current online options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. They also make it possible for people in different places to meet with licensed professionals and continue regular work on coping skills and communication.