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Online therapist

Prof. Florence Chichester

Compassionate therapy for family and parenting

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Credentials
LMHC
Experience
15 years
Licensed in
New York
Languages
English
Format
Online sessions

About Florence

Prof. Florence Chichester focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside a broad range of emotional stresses. She helps with anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, addiction, trauma and grief.

She also supports people with sleep and eating problems, anger, career transitions, and coping with life changes. Florence holds a Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential, LMHC, and brings 15 years of clinical experience in New York. Her style is warm and straightforward.

Background and approach

Sessions are person-centered and practical. She listens first, then offers tools that match each person’s goals and situation. Expect clear communication and steps you can try between sessions.

Florence uses attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships shape reactions and patterns. She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thoughts and change them. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps when feelings and closeness are the issue.

Her background includes work with a wide range of concerns such as caregiver stress, blended family issues, adoption and foster care topics, chronic illness and body image difficulties. This experience informs how she tailors interventions to everyday life and family dynamics. Sessions can focus on short-term coping or on deeper changes over time.

Florence aims to help people build better patterns, clearer boundaries, and more reliable ways to handle stress and parenting challenges.

How therapeutic approaches work online

Attachment-Based Therapy examines how early bonds affect current relationships and reactions. Online sessions using attachment ideas help people notice repeated patterns, repair closeness, and build more reliable ways of relating. This can be useful for parenting and family dynamics where patterns repeat across generations.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. In an online session this often means identifying one thought or habit to change and practicing small experiments between meetings to see what shifts.

Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that fit the concern, and adjust as needed. Clients and the therapist work together to pick techniques that feel useful and realistic for home and family life.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. That flexibility can make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules and to keep work going between sessions. Licensed professionals can use these formats to teach skills, coach through parenting moments, and track progress without needing to rearrange major parts of daily life.

Attachment-Based Therapy

Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.

Client-Centered Therapy

The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does she address related to family life?
The practice covers family and parenting issues plus related concerns such as communication problems, blended family challenges, caregiver stress, and adoption or foster care topics.
How would you describe the therapeutic style?
Sessions are person-centered and straightforward. The therapist listens, helps set goals, and offers practical strategies to try between sessions.
What is her clinical background?
She has 15 years of experience working with stress, trauma, relationship problems, and life transitions. That background shapes how she supports families and parenting concerns.
Where is the therapist based and what credentials are held?
She practices in New York and holds a Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential listed as NY LMHC 001830.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available for online work?
Therapy can be conducted via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on the client's preference.
How does payment and cost work?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working together?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to the therapist's availability.

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Experience
15 years
Licensed
New York
Languages
English

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