About Florence
Prof. Florence Chichester is a licensed mental health counselor with 15 years of experience working with anxiety, phobias, depression, and relationship concerns. She helps people manage stress, recover from trauma, cope with grief, and address issues like addiction, sleep and eating struggles, and low self-esteem.
Florence practices in New York and provides care in English. Her style blends empathy with practical steps. Sessions focus on clear goals and small, doable changes.
Background and approach
She listens for patterns in relationships and behavior, then helps clients try new ways of responding. Florence emphasizes building emotional awareness and healthier communication. She uses a mix of approaches to meet each person where they are.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Attachment-Based work looks at how early relationships affect current reactions. Emotionally-Focused Therapy supports deeper emotional connection and expression.
Clients can expect a steady, collaborative process. Florence encourages curiosity about feelings and offers exercises to practice between sessions. She also brings attention to life transitions, career stress, parenting challenges, and compassion fatigue when they come up.
In session she combines talk, reflection, and concrete tools. The aim is clearer thinking, fewer symptoms, and stronger coping skills. Progress is measured by what people can do differently in daily life rather than by labels.
Florence accepts video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. She asks new clients to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to availability.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape present reactions. It helps people understand patterns in close connections and learn new ways to respond when they feel triggered. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It teaches practical skills to challenge unhelpful thoughts and change everyday routines that keep problems going. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and express core emotions and work through blocks to connection and trust.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to figure out which methods fit a person's goals and preferences. That might mean trying one approach for a few sessions and adjusting based on what helps most.
Online therapy makes these approaches more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face work on emotion and communication. Phone sessions can be easier when video is not possible or bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text-based messaging offers brief check-ins, homework guidance, and a way to process thoughts between full sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist 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
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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