About Florence
Prof. Florence Chichester helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family concerns, and challenges like grief, addiction, trauma, and self-esteem. She is a licensed mental health counselor in New York with 15 years of experience.
Her work also includes support for parenting, sleep and eating concerns, anger, career changes, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. She uses a straightforward, warm style in sessions. Florence listens first to understand what matters most to each person.
Background and approach
She offers practical tools people can try between sessions and checks in about what helps and what does not. Her background includes long experience with relationship problems and attachment issues. She draws on therapies that focus on emotions, thinking patterns, and close bonds to help people respond differently in hard moments.
Florence pays attention to cultural context and life transitions when those factors matter. Sessions are aimed at building clearer communication, stronger self-regard, and better coping with life changes. She works with people facing chronic health concerns, caregiving stress, adoption and foster care matters, and complex family dynamics.
The approach is collaborative - goals are set together and adjusted as progress is made. Florence offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules. She uses a subscription model for sessions that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule appointments according to therapist availability.
Using attachment and cognitive approaches online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape how people respond in close relationships. Online sessions can help people notice patterns and practice new ways of connecting. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing more helpful ways of thinking and acting, which can ease anxiety, depression, and habit-driven behaviors.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, needs, and preferences and then try methods that fit those priorities. Plans are adjusted as progress and feedback guide the work together.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for full conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for a quieter check-in. Live chat and text messaging fit brief check-ins, homework support, or when someone prefers written communication. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- 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