Susan Phillips, LMHC

Susan Phillips is a Florida-licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with 25 years of experience in clinical settings. She has spent much of her career helping people navigate anxiety, depression, grief, trauma from abuse, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and relationship and family struggles.

She uses a client-centered approach as a foundation, which means she listens closely and follows the person’s lead while working together on goals. Susan also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, solution-focused methods, and trauma-focused care when those tools fit a person's needs.

In sessions she keeps the work practical. People can expect conversations that aim to identify patterns, try doable changes, and build coping strategies for stress, anger, or caregiving strain. She includes parenting education and grief work where relevant and helps people address codependency and family-of-origin issues in concrete ways.

Susan frames progress as steady, task-focused steps rather than quick fixes. She pays attention to how problems show up day to day and helps prioritize actions that reduce overwhelm and relieve persistent worry or guilt.

Her background across community mental health and clinical practice gives her experience with long-term mood conditions and complex life stressors. She encourages clients to set clear goals and to use tools from different approaches as needed to reach those goals.

Approaches to online therapy and how they help