Susan Phillips
Calm, practical support for family and life changes
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Susan
Susan Phillips is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in Florida with 25 years of experience. She focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside a broad range of common struggles such as anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, and addiction. She meets people where they are and aims to create a calm, respectful space for honest conversation.
Many reach out when life feels overwhelming or when relationships and family roles shift.
Background and approach
Her work centers on listening deeply and helping clients name what matters most. She uses a client-centered stance that keeps the person’s goals in charge of the process. Practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy are brought in when unhelpful thoughts and habits need changing.
Motivational interviewing supports people who want to make lasting behavior changes but feel stuck. Solution-focused techniques help set small, realistic steps toward everyday improvements. When trauma and grief are present, she uses trauma-focused approaches to reduce distress and build coping skills.
Sessions can include parenting education when family roles and caregiving cause strain. Susan values straightforward, doable strategies over jargon. She helps clients identify clear goals, try new approaches, and track progress.
Her style is collaborative and goal-oriented while staying attentive to emotional safety. Clients can expect a mix of short-term problem solving and deeper work depending on need. Her background supports work on long-term conditions like bipolar and ADHD as well as situational challenges such as career changes or compassion fatigue.
The focus is on practical change that fits daily life.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Susan commonly blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral techniques to help people handle everyday problems. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding the client’s perspective so they can make choices that fit their values. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thoughts and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety and depression.She also uses motivational interviewing when people want to change habits but feel unsure how to start. That approach uses open questions and reflection to build motivation and small achievable goals. Together these approaches allow sessions to address both feelings and actions in a collaborative way.
Finding the right fit is part of the process. The therapist will work with each person to choose which methods to try based on needs, goals, and comfort level. Sessions can shift over time as priorities change, and the choice of tools will reflect what is working for the individual.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy family schedules and those juggling work or caregiving. Video calls let you have face-to-face conversations from home, while phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging make it easier to keep consistent contact. These options help fit therapy into real life and make it simpler to follow through on goals.
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.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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
Next step
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