About Jahaira
Jahaira Flores is a licensed clinical social worker in New York with eight years of practice. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, work through trauma and abuse, and cope with depression. Jahaira emphasizes clients' strengths and sees each person as the expert of their own story.
She uses plain, practical conversation to identify what matters most to each person. Sessions look at day-to-day stress, workplace strain, and patterns that keep anxiety or panic active.
Background and approach
Jahaira also helps people facing compassion fatigue and the ongoing strain of chronic pain, illness, or disability. Many clients come with family conflict, guilt, shame, or loneliness. Jahaira helps people sort those feelings and decide on workable next steps.
She also supports people dealing with social anxiety, panic attacks, and phobias by breaking challenges into small, manageable practices. Her work is collaborative and strength-based. She listens first, then offers tools and ways to try things between sessions.
Jahaira aims to make change feel doable, not overwhelming, so people can take steady steps toward better days. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish. Jahaira practices from New York and brings a down-to-earth approach to talking about difficult events and ongoing life stressors.
Evidence-based techniques and flexible online care
Jahaira uses practical, evidence-based techniques that focus on symptoms and everyday functioning. One common approach involves structured strategies to reduce anxiety and panic by identifying triggers and practicing small, repeatable skills to manage moments of high stress. Another approach focuses on trauma-informed care that helps people process difficult events at a pace that feels tolerable, while building coping skills for the present.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Jahaira works with each person to figure out which techniques match their needs, goals, and preferences, and she adjusts the plan as progress is made. Clients help set priorities and try short experiments between sessions to see what helps most.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a camera is not convenient. Live chat and messaging let people check in between sessions and do shorter, focused work. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and daily life while still getting skilled professional support.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Spanish