About Nuri
Nuri Chaves is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida. He brings 10 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction recovery, anger, and depression. He also offers coaching to support practical life changes and goals.
Nuri centers sessions on empathy, respect, and sensitivity. He builds a calm, nonjudgmental space so clients can talk through what matters most to them. Treatment plans are tailored to each person’s needs and goals rather than following a one-size-fits-all script.
Background and approach
He uses a mix of approaches to match the situation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy supports people to focus on values and take meaningful action despite difficult feelings.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Attachment-Based techniques help with emotional regulation and relationship patterns. Nuri has worked with a wide range of concerns, including trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping difficulties, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. He also addresses life transitions like career changes, caregiving stress, and chronic illness challenges.
He talks plainly and offers practical tools alongside emotional support. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish and can be scheduled online. Nuri aims to help people feel more able to cope and move toward goals they choose for themselves.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Many of his sessions draw on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on spotting and changing thought and behavior patterns that increase distress. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, sleeping and eating issues, and coping with life changes.He also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters to them and take actions that match those values even when emotions are difficult. ACT can support work on motivation, self-esteem, and chronic stress. Attachment-Based Therapy appears in his work to map how early and current relationship patterns affect feelings and intimacy, which is helpful for relationship struggles and attachment issues.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. He will listen to your goals and try methods that fit your needs, adjusting the plan over time. You and he decide together which techniques feel most useful and when to shift focus.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video works well for deeper conversational work, phone sessions can fit around a busy day or lower bandwidth, and messaging or live chat can be used for brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, or caregiving routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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