About Eileen
Eileen OBrien Phelps is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with 28 years of clinical experience. She brings steady, practical help to people dealing with depression, anxiety, stress, and trauma. Her tone is straightforward and encouraging, aimed at helping a worried parent find clear steps forward.
She focuses on building confidence and using what already works in a person's life. Sessions are collaborative - the client and therapist make a plan together.
How Eileen works
Eileen emphasizes strengths and small, concrete changes that add up over time. Her background includes long experience with post-traumatic stress, parenting concerns, and adjustment to big life changes. She also supports people facing grief, anger, relationship strain, and issues related to adoption or foster care.
Other focus areas include postpartum depression, seasonal affective disorder, multicultural concerns, and coping after disasters. Eileen uses a mix of methods that match each person's needs. Examples include client-centered approaches, cognitive behavioral techniques, EMDR for trauma, mindfulness practices, and solution-focused strategies.
She explains tools plainly and helps people try them in everyday life. The first sessions usually identify immediate goals and simple steps to feel more stable. Over time she helps people build routines, handle triggers, and strengthen relationships.
Her approach aims to leave people feeling more capable and prepared to manage challenges.
Eileen lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Eileen works with
The areas below are the ones Eileen selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 28 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, understanding, and following the client’s lead to set goals and pace. It helps when someone needs an empathetic space to talk through stress, parenting worries, or life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change patterns. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and managing ADHD symptoms. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a trauma-focused method that helps process distressing memories and reduce their hold on daily life.Choosing the best approach is part of the early work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try techniques, and adjust plans together. The process is collaborative so the client helps decide what fits their needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care flexible. Video lets people work face-to-face when a longer session or visual cues matter. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a shorter break. Live chat or text-based messaging can work for quick check-ins, ongoing encouragement, or for people who prefer writing. These options help people access consistent care around work, school, or family obligations, and make it easier to keep regular contact with licensed professionals and therapists.
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