Phyllis Houston
Compassionate, practical counseling for life challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed in
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Phyllis
Phyllis Houston is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 26 years of experience. She focuses on problems that commonly affect daily life - stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, parenting challenges, and compassion fatigue. She speaks English and works from Mississippi.
Sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Phyllis uses straightforward, practical conversation to help people sort problems and make decisions. She draws on methods from client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy to pinpoint unhelpful thoughts and try small changes that can improve mood and relationships.
Background and approach
She also uses emotionally-focused therapy ideas when feelings and bonds are central to the issue. Her approach tends to be collaborative and goal-oriented. She listens for what matters most to each person and then helps set clear, manageable steps.
She combines insight about patterns with hands-on strategies so people can try things between sessions. Phyllis has worked with a wide range of concerns over more than two decades. Her experience includes trauma and abuse, family problems, parenting, caregiver stress, first responder issues, and aging-related worries.
She also addresses anger, self-esteem, career transitions, and coping after disasters. Practical matters are handled simply. Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
International clients are not currently accepted and all sessions are conducted in English.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and the client’s own goals. It involves open-ended conversation, reflection, and empathy to help people clarify what they want and feel, which can be useful for stress, self-esteem, and relationship concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes. It is concrete and skills-based, helpful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes by giving practical tools to use between sessions.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy centers on understanding emotion and repairing attachment or connection patterns. It can help when intimacy, grief, or relationship pain is at the heart of the problem.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide whether to emphasize listening and reflection, skill-building with CBT, or emotionally-focused work, and they adjust the plan over time.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit tight schedules, and live chat or text-based messaging help people check in between meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing family, work, or caregiving responsibilities.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Phyllis
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point