Flora Pazos, LMHC, LPC

Flora Pazos is a licensed mental health counselor and licensed professional counselor with 25 years of experience. She works in Florida and speaks both English and Spanish. Flora focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, depression, grief, and other life challenges. Flora takes a straightforward, goal-oriented approach. She adapts sessions to each person's needs and teaches practical techniques people can use between meetings. Sessions emphasize building on strengths and improving coping skills for day-to-day life. Over her career, Flora has supported people dealing with addiction, trauma and abuse, intimacy issues, parenting strains, anger, and low self-esteem. She also works with concerns such as bipolar disorder, ADHD, codependency, and adjustment after loss or separation. Her additional interests include adoption and foster care, blended family issues, aging concerns, and responses to disaster. Therapy sessions focus on finding concrete steps forward. Flora uses conversation and simple exercises to help people reflect on choices and try new behaviors. She encourages self-determination and helps clients set clear, realistic goals. Clients can expect a calm, respectful style that values dignity and personal growth. Flora aims to leave people with tools they can use outside of sessions and a greater sense of clarity about next steps.

Therapeutic approaches and how they translate online

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and supporting each person to find their own solutions. This approach helps when someone needs space to talk through feelings and clarify goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and teaches practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns; it is often useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Existential Therapy invites reflection on values, meaning, and choice, which can help people facing life transitions or big questions about purpose.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods to try based on their goals and preferences. Sessions can mix approaches over time, adjusting what is most helpful as progress is made.

The original profile does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let people use video when visual connection is helpful or choose phone if bandwidth is limited. Licensed professionals aim to adapt session length and style to fit everyday life and your goals.