Philicia Barbieri
Calm, practical therapy for life’s challenges
- Credentials
- LMHC, LPC
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania, Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Philicia
Philicia Barbieri uses an approach that blends practical skills with compassionate listening. She draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, EMDR, motivational interviewing, and mindfulness to help people manage stress, addiction concerns, and major life changes. Philicia is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with ten years of clinical work.
She offers straightforward, calm guidance and encourages small, doable steps toward clearer thinking and steadier emotion.
Background and approach
Her background includes crisis counseling, community-based programs, and group therapy, all of which shaped a warm, accepting style. Philicia brings trauma-informed training and EMDR experience to work on memories or experiences that feel stuck. She also integrates breathing, meditation, and simple yoga practices when these tools fit a person's goals.
Philicia has supported people through substance use concerns, depression, anxiety, grief, and the challenges that come with life transitions. She focuses on helping people rebuild routines, reduce unhelpful thinking, and strengthen motivation for change. Sessions center on practical strategies and honest conversation.
She completed a Master’s in Professional Counseling from Carlow University in 2015 and has practiced since 2013. Philicia works with individuals and couples, and she brings a human-centered, nonjudgmental stance to each meeting. Her aim is to help people move from feeling overwhelmed to feeling more grounded and purposeful.
Philicia lives in Pennsylvania and conducts sessions in English. Her practice includes options that suit busy schedules and different comfort levels, including live conversation and messaging formats.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Philicia often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot unhelpful thought patterns and try different ways of responding. CBT focuses on small, practical changes in thinking and behavior that can reduce anxiety, depression, and everyday stress.She is also trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, which helps people process distressing memories and reduce the hold those memories have. EMDR is commonly used when trauma or painful events make daily life harder.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, symptoms, and what feels comfortable, then recommend methods to try. This collaborative process makes it easier to adjust strategies over time if something is not working.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats provide flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels, letting people meet by voice or text from wherever they are. That makes it simpler to fit therapy into busy lives and to continue work even when travel or timing get in the way.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
EMDR
A structured protocol used with distressing memories, pairing recall with guided attention tasks. Some therapists adapt it for video sessions; whether that fits is worth asking about directly.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania, Florida
- Languages
- English
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