About Kevin
Kevin Phillips is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in South Carolina with 14 years of experience. He focuses on helping people who are stressed, anxious, depressed, or facing relationship and parenting challenges. His manner is warm, upbeat, and team-oriented, and he aims to help clients move toward realistic goals and daily improvements.
Kevin draws on practical methods like cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to teach coping skills. He mixes client-centered listening with goal-focused work so sessions balance understanding and action.
Background and approach
That combination helps people handle anxiety, trauma, addiction, and grief while building better habits. He has worked alongside law enforcement, victim advocates, and legal systems in cases involving domestic violence, sexual assault, and other crimes. He also has substantial experience supporting people with addiction and those navigating legal or criminal-related consequences of their behavior.
These experiences inform his approach to safety, boundaries, and practical next steps. Kevin can support people who want counseling shaped by a Biblical worldview and has assisted pastors and spiritual workers facing burnout or ministry setbacks. He also helps clients manage bipolar challenges, anger, impulse control, and end-of-life concerns.
Sessions emphasize restoring calm, communication, and motivation. In therapy he focuses more on solutions than labeling. He uses relaxation techniques, motivational interviewing, and brief solution-focused work to build small wins.
People who want a compassionate, action-oriented counselor will find a straight-forward, encouraging style with Kevin.
How these approaches work in online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps you clarify what matters most and build small, value-driven actions. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions where you want to live more in line with your priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks down unhelpful thoughts and habits into manageable steps and teaches practical tools for mood and behavior change. It often helps with anxiety, depression, addiction, and impulse control. Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the person in front of the therapist, offering empathetic listening and respect while you decide goals and pace.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kevin will collaborate with you to figure out what methods match your needs and preferences. That means trying techniques, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together so therapy stays useful and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone calls use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text messaging can make brief check-ins and step-by-step coaching easier between longer sessions. These options let clients match a format to their schedule and comfort while working on concrete skills and goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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