Flora Pazos, LMHC, LPC

Flora Pazos is a licensed mental health counselor with 25 years of clinical experience. She practices in Florida and speaks both English and Spanish. Flora focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes with practical skills and steady support.

She draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to help clients notice unhelpful thoughts and try small experiments to change day-to-day patterns. She also uses client-centered ideas to listen closely and shape work around each person's values and goals. Mindfulness and solution-focused strategies are used when brief, concrete steps fit the situation.

Flora aims for sessions that are goal-oriented and easy to understand. She teaches strategies clients can use between sessions to cope with triggers, manage mood, and move toward specific changes. The work is described in plain language and focused on what will help most in everyday life.

Her background includes a long career treating a wide range of concerns such as trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, parenting stress, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and complex medical or caregiving situations. She is prepared to support people dealing with bipolar symptoms, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and codependency concerns.

Flora accepts international clients and offers multiple online formats. She encourages people to start with a short matching questionnaire so sessions can be scheduled in a way that fits each person's routine and needs.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Flora commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and test small changes in everyday behavior to reduce symptoms like anxiety or depression. This approach works well for practical goals such as improving sleep, managing worry, or changing avoidance patterns.

She also follows client-centered principles that put the person's experiences and goals at the center of each session. That means she listens first, then helps shape the plan to reflect what matters most to the client. Existential ideas are used when questions about meaning, purpose, or major life transitions come up, supporting reflection and values-based choices.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Flora collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, comfort level, and daily routine. She reviews progress and adjusts the plan as needed so the work remains useful and realistic.

Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers flexible ways to connect. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and visual cues, phone calls can fit a tighter schedule or use less bandwidth, and chat or messaging work well for brief check-ins and ongoing skill practice. These options make it easier to fit regular sessions into busy lives and maintain steady progress.