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Flora Pazos

Therapist · Florida

Practical, bilingual counseling for life challenges

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Flora Pazos
Credentials
LMHC, LPC
License
LMHC, Florida · MH10734; LPC, New Jersey · 37PC00530800
NPI
1902196389
Experience
25 years
Languages
English, Spanish
Location
Florida
  • Goal oriented
  • English and Spanish
  • Skill building

About Flora

Flora Pazos is a licensed mental health counselor and licensed professional counselor with 25 years of experience helping people navigate hard moments. She speaks English and Spanish and focuses on practical ways to manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship challenges. Flora aims to meet each person where they are and tailor her work to what that person needs right now.

She approaches therapy in a goal-oriented, down-to-earth way. Sessions typically focus on teaching skills and strategies people can use between appointments. Flora uses straightforward tools to help with coping, decision making, and handling big life changes.

Her background includes long experience across many common concerns, from grief and trauma to addiction and burnout. She pays attention to how life events, health issues, and family roles affect daily functioning. People seek her out for help with self-esteem, anger, intimacy questions, and codependency issues among other challenges.

Flora draws on a mix of methods to fit each person’s needs. She combines talking, practical exercises, and mindfulness-style techniques to build new habits and perspectives. Sessions are paced to match individual goals and comfort levels.

Flora describes her work as respectful and strengths-focused. She helps people find clearer choices and tools they can use after sessions end. To start, she asks about current priorities and offers steps people can try right away.

Approaches you can expect and how they translate online

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting back what matters to the person. It helps when someone needs to feel heard and to explore their values and choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches specific exercises to change unhelpful patterns. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping skills.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the person to test methods and pick what fits their goals and comfort. That means trying exercises, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together over time.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm the available options before booking. In general, online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. They can reduce travel time, help keep appointments during work breaks, and allow shorter check-ins when that suits a schedule. Licensed professionals can adapt worksheets, mindfulness practices, and CBT exercises to online meetings so the work continues between sessions.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesFamily conflictsDepressionCoping with life changes

Also works with

AddictionsTrauma and abuseGriefIntimacy-related issuesParenting issuesAnger managementSelf esteemBipolar disorderCompassion fatigueADHD

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAdoption and foster careAging and geriatric issuesBlended family issuesCancerCo-morbidityCodependencyCommitment issuesCommunication problemsControl issuesCoping with natural or human-caused disasterDissociationDivorce and separationDomestic violenceEmptinessFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsFirst responder issuesForgivenessGuilt and shameImmigration issuesImpulsivityInfidelityIsolation / lonelinessJealousyLife purposeMidlife crisisVeteran and Armed Forces IssuesMood disordersMulticultural concernsObsessions, compulsions, and OCDPanic disorder and panic attacksPhobiasPostpartum depressionPost-traumatic stressProcess addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)Self-loveSexualitySocial anxiety and phobiaWomen's issuesWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Client-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Existential TherapyMindfulness TherapySolution-Focused Therapy

Experience

25+ years

Credentials

Florida, New Jersey

Languages

English, Spanish

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does Flora address?

She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, grief, and relationship and intimacy questions, among other issues such as codependency and burnout.

How would you describe Flora's therapy style?

Her approach is goal-oriented and practical, focusing on teaching strategies and techniques that clients can use between sessions to manage symptoms and make decisions.

What is her professional background?

Flora has 25 years of clinical experience working with adults on a wide range of concerns and life stages.

What credentials and location are listed?

She is listed as LMHC and LPC and practices in Florida.

Which languages are supported?

Sessions are offered in English and Spanish, and international clients are accepted.

What session formats are available?

The original biography does not specify session formats; please confirm current session options before booking.

How does payment and cost work?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with Flora?

Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.

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