About Susan
Susan Phillips is a Florida licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with 25 years of experience. She brings steady, practical support to people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and life transitions. Her tone is calm and direct, with an emphasis on listening first and planning next steps together.
Susan starts by hearing a person’s story. She uses a client-centered stance so people feel understood before moving into problem-solving. From there she draws on cognitive behavioral techniques and motivational interviewing to shape plans that fit each person’s life and goals.
How Susan works
Sessions focus on concrete tools and real progress. Susan helps people manage symptoms, rebuild confidence, and navigate changes such as separation, career shifts, caregiving, or health challenges. She also addresses complex issues like bipolar disorder, addictions, trauma from abuse, and family-of-origin concerns.
Her approach is flexible: short-term solution-focused work when that fits, or longer-term trauma-focused therapy when deeper processing is needed. Parenting education, grief counseling, and strategies for coping with chronic illness or caregiver stress are offered as appropriate to a person’s situation. Susan aims to make therapy practical and understandable.
She helps people set clear goals and tracks small changes over time. The process is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.
Susan lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Susan works with
The areas below are the ones Susan selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches support online care
Client-centered therapy puts the person’s priorities first. In practice this means sessions start with listening and reflection so goals come from the person’s own concerns. This approach helps when someone feels overwhelmed or unsure where to begin.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on changing patterns of thinking and behavior that contribute to distress. It is practical and skills-based, which makes it easy to use in short video or phone sessions and to practice between meetings.
Motivational interviewing is a collaborative style that helps people find their own reasons to change. It is useful for addressing addictions, motivation around treatment, or readiness for lifestyle shifts.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Susan will talk with each person about what they want to achieve, try methods that suit their goals, and adjust the plan over time. That process is collaborative and paced to the person’s needs.
Online therapy lets people fit care into a busy life. Video calls work well for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions are a good option when bandwidth is limited, live chat can offer quick check-ins, and text messaging supports brief updates or reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to attend sessions from different locations and at varied times.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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