Prof. Florence Chichester, LMHC
New York · 15 years in practice
Prof. Florence Chichester helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship challenges.
License and registration
- LMHC, New York
- 001830 · expires September 2026
- NPI
- 1962910935 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 15
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Florence
Prof. Florence Chichester helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship challenges. She is a New York licensed mental health counselor with 15 years of experience.
Florence works with adults on issues like parenting strain, career pressures, grief, trauma, and managing mood conditions such as bipolar disorder. Her style is straightforward and person-centered. She listens for what matters most and helps clients notice patterns that get in the way of feeling steady.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps to cope better day to day, and on clearer decision-making when life feels uncertain. Florence draws on existential ideas to address meaning, purpose, and the big questions people bring into therapy. She also uses attachment-focused approaches to improve how people connect with others.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques are used to shift thoughts and behaviors that feed anxiety or low mood. Clients can expect a collaborative process that balances thought work with emotional exploration. Florence offers tools for improving communication, setting boundaries, and managing impulses linked to addictions or anger.
She also supports people working through adoption and foster care concerns, caregiver stress, and chronic illness challenges. Her background includes many years helping people from diverse cultural backgrounds. Florence aims to create a calm, respectful space where clients can try new ways of coping and make honest choices about their next steps.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Florence lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Florence names
- Existential Therapy
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
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Online support
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Existential Therapy focuses on the big questions people bring into therapy - meaning, choice, and how someone wants to live. Online sessions let clients talk through those concerns and reflect on values and purpose across video, phone, or text formats.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in relationships and how early bonds affect current connection. In online work this approach supports improving communication, reducing reactivity, and practicing new ways of relating with partners or family members during session conversations and between-session check-ins.
Client-Centered Therapy centers on the client’s experience and aims to provide a nonjudgmental space to feel heard. Over video or phone calls, the therapist listens deeply and helps clients name emotions and priorities before deciding on next steps.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Florence will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. Together they will try strategies and adjust the plan as progress and challenges arise.
Online formats offer practical benefits like flexible scheduling, reduced travel time, and options for shorter check-ins via chat or messaging. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited, while video sessions support face-to-face interaction. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick progress updates, brief coaching, or when a written check-in fits a busy day.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Florence commonly help with?
She supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family issues, grief, trauma, addictions, parenting strain, career changes, and related challenges.
What is her therapeutic approach like?
Her work is collaborative and person-centered. She mixes existential questions about meaning with practical tools from cognitive behavioral and attachment-based methods.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She brings 15 years of experience as a practicing therapist in New York helping adults with a wide range of emotional and life concerns.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds a New York LMHC credential and practices in New York.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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