About Phyllis
Phyllis Smith is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) who focuses on practical, goal-oriented work. She draws on her clinical approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, parenting pressures, depression, addictions, and ADHD concerns. Phyllis listens first and asks clear questions about what you want to change.
Sessions are collaborative and aims are set together so progress is measurable. She uses clients' strengths to build resilience and restore hope while gently challenging unhelpful patterns.
Background and approach
Her work blends talk and action. She helps people notice how thinking and behavior interact, then practices new ways of coping. She also pays attention to how family patterns and relationships affect daily life and decision making.
Phyllis brings five years of clinical experience in North Carolina. That background includes supporting people with grief, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related concerns, self-esteem struggles, and anger. She also addresses issues like career stress, bipolar mood challenges, and co-occurring conditions.
When relevant, she integrates mindfulness practices and solution-focused steps to create small, manageable changes. Conversations aim to leave people with concrete tools they can use between sessions. The overall tone is supportive, direct, and focused on real-life results.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding your priorities and building a trusting conversation. The therapist follows your lead, reflects what matters to you, and helps you set goals that feel doable. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and uses practical exercises to change patterns that cause distress. CBT can help with anxiety, stress, mood shifts, and ADHD-related challenges by teaching specific skills for managing thoughts and behaviors.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Phyllis will talk with you about your needs, goals, and preferences and will suggest methods to try together. That choice is collaborative and can change as progress is made or new priorities emerge.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let you have a face-to-face conversation and practice skills in real time. Phone sessions work well when you need a simpler check-in or have limited bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter updates, quick problem-solving between sessions, and more frequent contact when that helps progress. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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