Prof. Florence Chichester, LMHC

Prof. Florence Chichester is a licensed mental health counselor with 15 years of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and midlife changes. She focuses on practical steps to improve communication, self-esteem, and daily functioning. Her work often addresses parenting stress, grief, addiction concerns, and difficulties with intimacy and sleep.

Florence emphasizes a person-centered approach that keeps the client’s goals central. She listens for what matters most and helps people build routines and skills that fit their life. Sessions tend to be direct and collaborative, with attention to emotion, thoughts, and behavior.

Her background includes long-term work with adults navigating life transitions, workplace stress, and family dynamics. She draws on attachment-focused ideas to understand relationship patterns and on emotion-focused methods to help people name and shift difficult feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are used to change unhelpful thinking and habits.

Clients who bring complex histories - such as trauma, caregiving strain, or neurodiverse experiences like autism - will find an approach that seeks to understand context and practical needs. Florence also addresses issues like body image, codependency, and decision-making during career shifts.

She practices in New York as an LMHC, and works in English. To get started, readers are invited to follow the site's start process and complete the matching questionnaire before scheduling.

How her approaches translate to online work

Attachment-Based Therapy helps identify recurring relationship patterns and how early bonds shape current connections; it supports people who want clearer, healthier ways of relating. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person's experience in the moment, offering empathic listening and helping clients find their own solutions for issues like low self-esteem or life direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets thought and behavior patterns, offering concrete exercises to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and change unhelpful habits.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and goals. That choice can change over time as issues evolve and new priorities emerge.

The original biography does not specify session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce time spent traveling. It also makes it possible to continue work during life transitions, when routines are changing, or when juggling caregiving and job demands.