About
Dr. Flores is an Ordained Minister and holds a Doctor of Divinity (D.Div) from Summit Bible College, a Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D) from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology in Los Angeles, and has completed various extracurricular trainings that include certificate work in dream analysis and existentialism at Sigmund Freud University in Vienna, Austria.
Dr. Flores' professional career has consisted of extensive training, both biblically and psychoanalytically. She has treated a vast and diverse population of individuals struggling with mental, emotional, and spiritual distress. Specific populations of clinical proficiency include children and adolescents diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), acutely psychotic adult men and women, impoverished individuals in a community mental health setting, adults diagnosed with HIV, adolescents and adults battling addiction, and those diagnosed with neurocognitive disorders. She worked briefly on Maui in the school districts and returned to the mainland to push boundaries in forensics. Specifically, she performed competency evaluations for courts in Bakersfield, California in cases of adult males deemed incompetent to stand trial. From there, Dr. Flores began treating men and women convicted of sexual offenses before transitioning to West Texas where she worked in the federal prison system. Eventually, however, she made her way back home to California to embrace her roots in pastoral counseling, life coaching, and consulting where she created 805 Counseling and Consulting. In this practice, she offers not only pastoral mental health counseling and life coaching, but also contracting and consulting for businesses seeking to improve staff retention.
In her spare time, Dr. Flores enjoys reading, trying new foods, writing/blogging, exercising, and spending time with family. She is consultant and counselor to many, but uses any down time to spend it with her husband and family.
