About Phoebe
Phoebe Maisto is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with three years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and offers support around addictions, eating concerns, and depression. Phoebe emphasizes a calm, straightforward approach to make first steps feel manageable for someone feeling overwhelmed.
Phoebe creates a space where thoughts and feelings can be shared without judgment. She works with each person to set clear, realistic goals and practical steps they can try between sessions.
Background and approach
Conversations are direct but compassionate, aimed at easing day-to-day struggles. Her work often addresses how attachment, abandonment, and communication problems affect mood and relationships. Phoebe also helps people facing body image issues, guilt and shame, impulsivity, and isolation.
She focuses on concrete coping skills that reduce distress and improve daily functioning. People come to her for help navigating life changes, divorce and separation, caregiver stress, and questions about life purpose. Phoebe supports efforts to build healthier self-talk, forgiveness, and self-love.
She helps people break down big problems into manageable actions. Sessions may include short-term strategies and longer-term planning depending on what each person needs. Phoebe encourages a collaborative process where clients guide the pace and focus of work.
She aims to make therapy practical and approachable so people can start feeling steadier in their daily lives.
How evidence-based techniques translate to online care
Many people benefit from approaches that teach concrete skills, such as short-term strategies for managing anxiety and behavior-focused work for addictions and eating concerns. Skill-based anxiety work often involves learning breathing and grounding techniques, along with breaking problems into small steps to reduce worry and avoidance. Behavior-focused work for addictions and eating concerns emphasizes identifying triggers, building new routines, and practicing alternative responses to urges.Finding the right approach is part of the process and Phoebe treats that as a collaborative effort. She will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, try techniques in session, and adjust based on what helps. Clients can expect to test practical tools and then refine what feels most useful over time.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and skills practice, phone can fit a shorter check-in or when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging work well for brief updates or moment-to-moment support. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or other daily demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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