As a therapist and life coach, Priscilla Chilian, LMFT, has crafted a practice that bridges healing and growth, both restorative and forward-looking. Her practice, Fleurish Counseling, offers clients tools beyond problem-solving: she offers a way of seeing themselves with candor, compassion.
Her clients—couples, individuals, teens, families—come seeking clarity and leave with something more rare: the experience of being truly seen. Her rapport with young people is striking. “Often what teens are guarded against is expectations and disrespect,” she says. “Teens are tired of people treating them like children, I regard them as respected adults, and they feel that.”
She describes her sessions less like a clinical appointment and more like “the atmosphere of a social call,” a place where autonomy and positive regard aren’t promises but givens. “Teens have highly attuned inauthenticity meters and they immediately notice my genuine care for them as their own agents of change.”
Couples counseling reveals a different dimension of her work, one that blends precision with empathy. “All of us carry with us scars from our formative years because each one of us was raised by an imperfect person,” she explains. By introducing couples to their attachment styles, she offers “a key to unlock the confusion and frustration in their lives.” For many, this reframing is revelatory: arguments about dishes are rarely about dishes at all. “The fascinating thing about couples counseling,” she says, “is that the person who has the highest potential to help heal your past wounds is the very person with whom you are arguing. And for that person to help heal you, they need to grow in their areas of weakness. That’s where I come in.”
Then there is avoidance, the silent saboteur in so many relationships. Chilian faces it head-on. “Avoidance is often the best friend of men,” she says with a wry smile. Growing up with four brothers taught her to meet resistance with warmth and directness. “I am not intimidated by a big man who doesn’t want to be there; I befriend him and guide him where he needs to go. Counseling is not always comfortable, but my ability to call a spade a spade with compassion and understanding, effectively pushes clients forward.”
Chilian’s work is less about platitudes and more about precision: noticing the silence, naming the avoidance, reframing the conflict. Whether with a teenager guarding their secrets or a couple replaying the arguments of their past, she offers presence, clarity, and progress. At Fleurish Counseling, the work is about speaking the unsaid and finding a path forward that is both honest and human.
949.637.7369 / FleurishCounseling.com
Del Obispo St, San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675
