Susan Phillips

Susan Phillips is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with 25 years of experience. She focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, and challenges like ADHD and bipolar disorder. Her style is direct and practical while also being warm and attentive. She uses a client-centered approach so the person in the room feels heard and understood. Susan combines that with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to look at unhelpful thinking patterns and with Motivational Interviewing to support people who want change but feel stuck. She also brings Solution-Focused and Trauma-Focused strategies when those fit someone’s goals. Sessions emphasize clear goals and practical steps. Susan helps people break problems into manageable parts and practices new ways of handling stress, relationships, and parenting challenges. She draws on decades of clinical work to offer tools for coping with life changes and compassion fatigue. Her background includes long-term work in community mental health settings across Florida. That experience shaped her interest in grief, end-of-life concerns, caregiver stress, adoption and foster care issues, and chronic illness. She uses what works from different methods rather than sticking to a single technique. People who do best with Susan tend to want straightforward guidance, time to talk deeply, and step-by-step plans they can try between sessions. To begin, prospective clients choose the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule based on the therapist’s availability.

How Susan Uses Therapy Methods Online

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so people feel understood and can find their own answers. This approach helps when someone needs space to talk through painful experiences like grief or family problems.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts, feelings, and actions. It helps people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and practice small behavior changes to reduce anxiety, depression, or stress.

Motivational Interviewing supports people who feel stuck about change. The therapist asks open questions and helps build motivation to try new steps, which can be useful for addictions, career shifts, or improving self-care.

Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will listen to your goals and suggest which methods to try first. Together you’ll adjust the plan based on what feels most helpful and realistic for your life.

Please confirm current online session options before booking because this biography does not list specific formats. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. It also lets people use therapy alongside work or caregiving responsibilities without reshuffling their whole day.