About Phillip
Rev. Phillip Deming is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in California with 25 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and family concerns, addictions, and ADHD.
She aims to make therapy straightforward and approachable for people who feel overwhelmed or unsure where to start. Her practice emphasizes open, nonjudgmental conversation. She encourages clients to say what matters and to bring their real-life struggles into sessions.
Background and approach
When clients want to include their spiritual beliefs in therapy, she welcomes that as part of the process without imposing any views. Phillip uses practical, evidence-informed methods such as client-centered work, cognitive behavioral strategies, dialectical behavior tools, mindfulness, and narrative approaches. She tailors those techniques to everyday lives, helping people manage symptoms, rethink unhelpful patterns, and build better routines.
She has substantial experience guiding people through grief, chronic illness impacts, caregiver stress, and the strains of major life transitions. Her background includes long-term work with adults facing trauma and substance use issues, and supporting people navigating family-of-origin and blended-family problems. Sessions are offered in English and delivered online through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
People interested in starting are invited to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first meeting to see if the approach fits their needs.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building trust so people can speak openly about what matters most. It helps when someone needs a calm space to sort feelings and make decisions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, works by identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors; it’s useful for anxiety, depression, and managing ADHD-related routines. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, adds skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication, which can ease intense reactions and relationship strain.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will meet someone where they are, discuss goals, and try methods that match those goals. Over a few sessions the plan can be adjusted so the work fits the person's needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video calls let people interact face to face and practice skills in real time. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be a simpler check-in. Live chat or text-based messaging can serve as brief check-ins, quick coaching, or when typing feels easier than talking. These options make it possible to keep momentum between sessions and fit therapy into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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