About Phyllis
Phyllis Smith is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in North Carolina. She brings five years of clinical experience and a calm, straightforward style to sessions. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, mood concerns, relationship friction, and the challenges that come with major life changes.
Phyllis centers conversations on each person's goals and strengths. She listens for what matters most and helps clients set clear, workable steps.
How Phyllis works
Sessions often combine practical problem-solving with attention to feelings and values so progress feels real and useful. Her background includes work across a wide range of concerns. Common areas she addresses include parenting strain, communication problems, grief and loss, addiction concerns, intimacy-related issues, and coping with ADHD.
She also supports people facing attachment wounds, abandonment fears, body-image struggles, and blended family challenges. Phyllis uses several therapeutic approaches and adapts them to fit each person. She emphasizes building resilience, restoring hope, and testing new ways of thinking and behaving.
The work can involve short-term strategies as well as deeper reflection on life meaning and patterns of relating. Sessions are offered in English and delivered remotely using video, phone, live chat, or messaging. People interested in starting are invited to complete the short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session once matched.
Phyllis lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Phyllis works with
The areas below are the ones Phyllis 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
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
Online approaches that meet you where you are
Phyllis often draws on Client-Centered Therapy to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where a person’s goals lead the work. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting, and helping people find their own solutions to problems like anxiety, low self-esteem, or relationship strain.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. CBT offers practical skills for managing anxiety, depression, mood swings, and patterns that get in the way of daily life.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for a full conversation, phone works well with limited bandwidth, chat and messaging are good for quick check-ins or shorter exchanges. These options let people fit therapy around work, family, or other routines and make consistent care more accessible.
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