About Phillis
Phillis Newton is a licensed clinical social worker in New Mexico with 11 years of experience. She helps people who are dealing with stress and anxiety and supports those coping with trauma and depression. Phillis aims to make the first steps toward change feel possible and less overwhelming.
She keeps sessions direct and simple. Phillis offers a space where clients can talk through their thoughts and feelings without fear of judgment.
Background and approach
She focuses on helping people notice what is getting in the way and on practical steps they can try between sessions. Phillis draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address concerns such as addiction, grief, anger, low self-esteem, and compassion fatigue.
She also works with parenting challenges, relationship strain, and issues related to adoption, foster care, autism and Asperger syndrome, and young adult transitions. Conversations include building coping skills and finding manageable ways to handle change. Her approach blends listening with goal-oriented work.
Phillis partners with each person to set clear, realistic goals and tracks progress together. She encourages skills practice outside sessions to help new habits take hold. People meet with Phillis by phone, video, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Sessions follow a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. She accepts international clients and conducts therapy in English.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Phillis uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that aim to reduce symptoms and build skills. One common approach she relies on focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce anxiety and improve mood. This helps people notice the connections between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and try practical alternatives.Another approach emphasizes skill-building for stress management and emotion regulation. Sessions teach short, usable tools for calming down, managing anger, improving self-esteem, and coping with life changes. These skills are designed to be practiced between meetings so progress can be tracked.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Phillis collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. She reviews how techniques are working and adjusts plans as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversations and visual cues, while phone sessions can fit a busy schedule or need less bandwidth. Live chat and messaging are helpful for quick check-ins, short coaching-style conversations, or when writing feels easier than talking. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English
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