About Nuri
Nuri Chaves is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with ten years of experience. He focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction recovery, anger, and depression. He also offers coaching to support meaningful life changes and stronger relationships.
Nuri blends body-centered work with talk therapy to understand how stress and trauma show up in the body. He uses somatic approaches alongside Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based work to help people build skills for daily life.
Background and approach
Sessions are shaped around each person’s goals and comfort level. Clients can expect a calm, respectful space where their experiences are heard. He works in English and Spanish to make therapy accessible to more people in Florida and beyond.
His background includes ten years of direct clinical work and practical coaching experience. Therapy with Nuri often focuses on concrete skills for coping and self-regulation. That can include breathing and grounding practices, emotion regulation tools from ACT and CBT, and exercises to strengthen interpersonal connections.
The plan is adjusted as progress is made. He helps people dealing with grief, intimacy issues, sleep or eating concerns, parenting stress, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and chronic illness challenges. Other areas of focus include adoption and foster care questions, attachment issues, and body image concerns.
Work is collaborative and paced to what feels manageable for each person. Sessions are offered through online formats that allow flexible scheduling. The initial step is a short matching questionnaire and scheduling based on therapist availability.
Nuri aims to support practical changes and steadier coping in everyday life.
How somatic and evidence-based approaches work online
Somatic work focuses on how the body holds stress and emotion. In online sessions this can mean guided breathing, body awareness exercises, and noticing physical sensations while talking about difficult experiences. It helps when stress shows up as tension, pain, or restless energy.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take small committed steps toward those values. It combines practical exercises with acceptance skills to reduce avoidance and build a more meaningful routine.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections. Online sessions can include talking through relational expectations, practicing new ways to ask for needs, and learning patterns that lead to stronger, healthier interactions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean trying somatic techniques first, then adding ACT or attachment tools as progress unfolds.
Online formats - video, phone, live chat, and text messaging - make scheduling more flexible. Video calls allow guided body-aware exercises and face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions can feel simpler and less formal. Live chat and text help maintain contact between sessions or suit people who prefer writing. These options support continuity of care and make it easier to practice skills in real life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- 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