About Phillip
Rev. Phillip Deming is a licensed marriage and family therapist with twenty-five years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, addictions, and relationship or family tensions.
She creates a calm, respectful space where clients can say what they think and feel without being judged. Phillip emphasizes practical steps alongside listening. Sessions may include skill-building to manage overwhelming thoughts, tools for sleep and stress, and ways to handle difficult emotions after loss.
Background and approach
She also supports people coping with chronic illness, caregiver strain, and the ongoing challenges that come with long-term conditions. Her approach draws on client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior ideas, mindfulness, and narrative methods. That mix allows her to tailor sessions to what each person needs, whether it is managing anxious thoughts, improving communication, or changing unhelpful patterns.
She is comfortable including a client’s spiritual beliefs in sessions when requested, and she does so without imposing beliefs of her own. Rev. Deming practices in California and holds the LMFT credential, which indicates licensure as a marriage and family therapist.
Many clients look for straightforward guidance and practical exercises in therapy. She aims to offer clear next steps, coping strategies, and room to make sense of painful experiences. The goal is to help people feel steadier and more able to handle life's demands.
Therapeutic approaches online and how they help
Client-centered therapy focuses on a respectful, listening stance where the client’s own goals guide the work. It helps people feel heard and find their own solutions when facing anxiety or relationship stress.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is practical and skills-based. It looks at patterns of thought and behavior and teaches tools to reduce anxious thinking, improve sleep, and change reactions that cause distress.
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) adds skills for managing intense emotions and improving tolerance for distress. It can be useful for people who struggle with mood swings, strong urges, or feeling overwhelmed.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the therapy process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify goals and try techniques that fit their needs and preferences. That means adjusting methods over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is low or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or continuing work between longer appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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