About Susan
Susan Phillips is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with 25 years of experience. She brings a calm, straightforward style to sessions and focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress and anxiety. Susan emphasizes listening first so clients can feel understood and start to make practical changes.
She supports people coping with grief, depression, addiction concerns, and trauma from abuse. She also helps those managing life transitions, caregiver stress, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and relationship or family problems.
Background and approach
Sessions often include discussion of parenting challenges, career strain, anger, and burnout from compassion fatigue. Susan blends a client-centered stance with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing. She uses solution-focused and trauma-focused techniques as needed, tailoring methods to each person’s goals.
The work is collaborative and goal-oriented, with attention to small, usable steps. Her approach highlights straightforward problem solving and steady emotional support. She prioritizes clear goals and practical strategies that people can try between sessions.
Progress is tracked in concrete ways so clients can see what is changing. Sessions are offered in English and delivered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. People who want to begin fill out a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions through the Start Therapy button.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person first. The therapist follows the client’s lead and helps them find their own path forward, which fits well with online talk-based sessions for anxiety or grief.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. It uses clear exercises and practical homework to change unhelpful patterns, which works easily over video or phone when tracking progress between meetings.
Motivational interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change. It uses gentle questions and reflection to build commitment, and is useful for addictions, ambivalence about change, or improving self-care.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they adapt methods and try different strategies until a good fit emerges.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers flexibility for busy schedules and different comfort levels. Video is useful for full conversation and nonverbal cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent while balancing daily life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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