Susan Phillips, LMHC

Susan Phillips is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with 25 years of experience in the mental health field. She works with people facing anxiety, depression, grief, trauma from abuse, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and struggles with stress and self-esteem. Susan emphasizes listening first so people feel truly heard when they begin therapy.

She uses a client-centered stance that puts the person's experience at the center of each session. That approach is paired with straightforward tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing to address unhelpful thinking and build motivation for change. Solution-focused methods help keep sessions practical and goal-oriented.

Susan also brings experience supporting people coping with major life changes, chronic illness and pain, caregiver stress, and end-of-life and hospice concerns. She works through relationship and family-of-origin issues, codependency, and the effects of abandonment or adoption backgrounds when these come up in therapy.

Sessions tend to focus on clear goals, concrete steps, and skills the person can use between meetings. Susan emphasizes short-term strategies for relief alongside deeper work on trauma and grief when that is needed. She aims to help people reduce distress and move toward steadier daily functioning.

She invites anyone who is ready to take a first step to reach out and begin the process. To get started, a simple matching questionnaire and scheduling follow the initial sign-up steps.

How therapeutic approaches work in online care

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person. The therapist follows the client's lead and helps them make sense of their experience while offering support and reflection. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns and reduce anxiety or low mood. Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative way to boost a person's own motivation to make changes, useful for addictions, behavior change, and readiness to try new coping strategies.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then try methods that match those needs. Decisions about focus and techniques are made jointly and can shift as progress happens.

Confirm the current session options before booking since formats are not specified here. Many people find online therapy helps fit care into busy lives by making scheduling easier, reducing commute time, and allowing shorter check-ins when needed. Online sessions can support skill practice, guided exercises, and steady check-ins while the therapist and client work toward concrete goals.