About Phyllis
Phyllis Hartman, LCSW, brings 25 years of clinical experience to people dealing with stress and anxiety. She offers steady, practical support for adults who feel stuck or overwhelmed. Her style is straightforward and caring, aimed at helping someone make clear steps forward.
Hartman sees therapy as focused teaching that helps people clear obstacles to change. Sessions are meant to identify patterns that cause distress and to build doable skills for daily life.
Background and approach
She uses straightforward conversation and exercises that fit a person’s real routine. Her background includes a Master of Social Work earned in 1999 and a Pennsylvania LCSW license. Over decades of practice she has worked across a wide range of issues, including depression, addictions, trauma, grief, and attention-related concerns.
She combines several approaches to match each person’s needs. Techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy help change unhelpful thinking and behavior. Client-centered work creates a space where a person’s priorities guide the process.
Mindfulness and DBT skills are used when emotion regulation and stress management are central goals. Phyllis also supports people facing career changes, caregiver stress, and questions of life purpose. She frames goals in everyday language and focuses on small, achievable changes.
Her approach aims to make therapy useful from the first few sessions.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s priorities and values, giving space for someone to set the pace and goals for work. It helps when someone needs a supportive, listening approach to sort out what matters most. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems in place and teaches practical tools to change them, which can help with anxiety, depression, and mood issues. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) offers specific skills for managing strong emotions and reducing impulsive reactions, useful for people who need concrete coping strategies.Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss which methods fit the person’s goals, life demands, and preferences. That collaborative plan can mix elements of different approaches so sessions match what the client needs in the moment.
Online therapy offers flexibility across several formats. Video calls allow for a face-to-face feel when a deeper conversation is needed. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a calmer audio check-in is preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging make short updates and brief coaching possible between longer sessions. These options help fit therapy into work, caregiving, and busy schedules while keeping treatment consistent.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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