Susan Phillips
Experienced LMHC blending listening with practical tools
LMHC Florida
- Experience
- 25 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Trauma and abuse, Grief
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Susan
Susan Phillips is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with 25 years of experience in the mental health field. She draws on a client-centered stance that prioritizes listening and understanding so clients can clarify their own goals and move toward measurable change.
Background and approach
Her work commonly addresses stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, bipolar disorder, ADHD, addictions, and a wide range of relationship and family concerns. She integrates cognitive behavioral techniques along with motivational interviewing, solution-focused strategies, and trauma-focused methods to tailor sessions to each person’s needs.
That blend allows her to focus on practical tools for coping while exploring deeper themes such as abandonment, family of origin issues, caregiving stress, chronic illness, codependency, and end-of-life concerns. Sessions emphasize collaboration, concrete skills, and steps clients can use between meetings.
Susan aims to create a therapeutic process that centers the client’s experience and priorities while offering structure and evidence-informed approaches. Her practice supports people navigating life transitions, complicated grief, work and career stress, parenting challenges, and the emotional impacts of chronic conditions and caregiving.
Evidence-Informed Approaches Adapted for Online Care
Client-centered therapy focuses on creating an empathic, nonjudgmental space where the therapist listens closely and helps clients explore their values and goals; this approach supports people who need to feel heard while they work through emotional pain or life decisions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) offers practical, skills-based strategies to identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and many everyday challenges. Motivational Interviewing helps people resolve ambivalence and find intrinsic motivation for change, making it a useful complement for work around addictions, behavior change, and goal setting.Choosing the right approach is collaborative, and the therapist works with each client to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Sessions may draw more heavily on skills training, reflective listening, motivational work, or trauma-focused techniques depending on what emerges in the initial meetings.
Online therapy with this practice is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care during life transitions, manage work and family demands, and access consistent support from a licensed professional without geographic constraints.
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Experience
25+ years
Licensed
Florida
Languages
English