About Phillip
Rev. Phillip Deming is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) practicing in California. She brings 25 years of experience to conversations about stress, anxiety, grief, and addiction.
Her approach is warm and direct, helping people feel heard and understood from the first session. She uses client-centered methods to create a nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be shared. Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to spot unhelpful thinking and try different responses.
How Phillip works
Dialectical behavior strategies and mindfulness work help with intense emotions and improving everyday coping skills. She also uses narrative therapy to help people reframe life stories and find new meaning after loss or trauma. Her experience includes helping people manage chronic illness, caregiver stress, and compassion fatigue.
She supports those facing relationship and family problems and works with issues like abandonment, attachment, and blended family dynamics. Some clients choose to bring their spiritual beliefs into sessions, and she is comfortable incorporating faith when requested and appropriate. She also has experience assisting military members and their families with the stresses that come from service life.
Sessions focus on practical steps and clear goals, so people leave with tools to use between meetings. The tone is collaborative - she helps people set priorities and track progress over time.
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What Phillip works with
The areas below are the ones Phillip selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person as they describe their concerns. It helps build trust and make a plan together, which works well across video or phone sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behavior and introduces simple exercises to test new ways of responding; it is often paired with homework and brief skills practice between meetings.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She will discuss goals, try methods that fit the problem, and adjust plans based on what helps. Together the therapist and client decide whether to emphasize thinking skills, emotion regulation, mindfulness, or story work to reach the goals that matter most.
Online sessions offer flexibility that can make regular meetings easier to keep. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice and role play. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send updates, practice skills, and stay connected between longer meetings.
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