About Philip
Philip Bloomer is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 11 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, and ADHD. He approaches each person with directness and respect, listening first to understand what matters most. Philip offers straightforward guidance and practical steps clients can try between sessions.
Philip takes a broad view of problems, looking beyond symptoms to how daily life, relationships, work, and past experiences interact. He blends practical tools with conversations about values and goals to help people identify what they want to change.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear, doable actions alongside reflection about what gives life meaning. He uses a mix of approaches including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and client-centered methods adapted to each person. Philip also draws on mindfulness practices and motivational interviewing to help with motivation and habit change.
He explains ideas in plain language and outlines simple exercises clients can practice at home. Philip trained later in life, earning a Master of Social Work and bringing varied life experience to his practice. He has personal experience with mental health and substance use challenges, which informs his practical and nonjudgmental style.
He works from Kentucky and holds LCSW and LICSW credentials. Initial sessions gather information to shape a clear plan together. Philip schedules mostly Monday to Friday during daytime and early evening hours and offers several online formats.
He emphasizes honest conversation, realistic goals, and steady progress toward the next chapter of a client's life.
Approaches and online care that fit your life
Philip commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. This approach can help with anxiety, depression, ADHD-related struggles, and stress by shifting focus toward meaningful goals.He also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and to build practical skills for managing moods and behaviors. CBT tools are useful for worry, low mood, sleep problems, and patterns that maintain addictions or anger. Client-centered work rounds out these methods by prioritizing the client’s perspective, listening carefully, and shaping the pace of work to each person’s needs.
Finding the right mix of approaches is collaborative. Philip will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before, then try strategies together and adjust over time. The plan evolves based on what helps.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video works well for deep conversations and guided exercises, phone can be helpful when bandwidth is limited, live chat or messaging can support shorter check-ins or homework discussion. These options let clients meet in ways that match their schedule and comfort.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio
- Languages
- English
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