About Hazel
Hazel Phillip is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, and mood concerns. She practices in New York and works with clients on issues like self-esteem, career pressures, grief, and coping with life changes. Hazel focuses on building a warm, collaborative space where people can talk through problems and find workable steps forward.
She listens for what matters most to each person and helps them set realistic goals.
How Hazel works
Sessions are straightforward and practical, with an emphasis on skills people can try between meetings. Her work draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that fuel anxiety or low mood. She also uses Motivational Interviewing to support people who want to move away from substance misuse or make tough changes.
Solution-Focused Therapy helps keep conversations goal-directed and makes small progress feel meaningful. Hazel has two decades of experience across a range of clinical settings, which shapes a flexible style that adapts to different needs. She pays attention to how stress links with relationships, work, identity, and experiences of prejudice and discrimination.
She also offers care around trauma, HIV/AIDS concerns, and issues connected to self-love and shame. People who want clear steps, compassionate listening, and a focus on practical change may find her approach helpful. Her background and methods aim to make therapy feel useful and manageable, even when life feels overwhelming.
Hazel lists 3 ways of working on the entry:
What Hazel works with
The areas below are the ones Hazel selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- LGBT
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Approach-focused care through online therapy
Hazel uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify and change thoughts and behaviors that contribute to anxiety, depression, or low self-esteem. CBT often involves simple exercises and small experiments to test new ways of coping.She also draws on Motivational Interviewing to support people who want to make changes around substance use or other habits. This approach centers the client's own reasons for change and builds commitment at a manageable pace.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Hazel will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then tailor methods to match those needs. This is a collaborative process and can shift over time as progress is made.
Online therapy with Hazel is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversations, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging make it easier to fit short check-ins into a busy day. These options help people stay consistent with sessions and work on skills between meetings.
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