Therapist profile
Karen Phillips, LMHC
LMHC in Florida - relationships and parenting
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- Depression and anxiety
- Trauma and attachment
- ACT DBT CBT approaches
About Karen
Karen Phillips is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Florida with 25 years of clinical experience. She works with common concerns such as depression, anxiety, stress, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and grief. She also supports people coping with trauma and emotional abuse from childhood and a range of mood and attachment issues.
Her style is collaborative and client-centered. Sessions are practical and straightforward. She draws on a mix of methods to help people manage intense emotions, reduce unhelpful patterns, and make clearer choices about relationships and parenting.
Karen uses approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to teach skills for emotion regulation and flexible thinking. She also attends to attachment-related patterns, working with issues such as abandonment, control, and guilt. These methods are used to address problems like addiction, ADHD-related struggles, intimacy concerns, and compassion fatigue.
People meet a clinician who aims to listen, reflect, and try practical steps together. Sessions may include learning skills, noticing relationship patterns, and trying small behavioral changes between meetings. Her background gives particular experience with trauma, mood disorders, and women's issues.
Karen accepts international clients and conducts work in English. She asks new clients to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session so they can begin discussing goals and what might help.
How sessions work
How her approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match personal values. ACT can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in relationships that formed early and still affect how someone connects now. It is useful for intimacy issues, abandonment concerns, and repeated conflict. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small behavioral experiments, helping reduce anxiety and change mood patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Karen collaborates with clients to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. She will discuss options and adjust methods as sessions progress so the plan fits what actually helps.
The original biography does not list specific online session formats. Confirm current session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into busy days, shorten check-in visits when needed, or avoid travel. It also allows practical skills practice in daily settings and can make scheduling across time zones simpler for international clients.
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Experience
25+ years
Listed in
Florida
Languages
English
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What concerns does she help with at home?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and intimacy-related issues among other concerns listed in her profile.
What is her therapeutic approach like?
Her approach is collaborative and client-centered, using methods such as ACT, DBT, CBT, and attachment-based ideas to teach skills and explore patterns in relationships.
How much experience does she have?
She has 25 years of clinical experience working with a wide variety of concerns including trauma, mood disorders, and relationship issues.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor (FL LMHC) and practices from Florida.
Does she work with non-US or international clients?
Yes. Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
Which session formats are offered?
Session formats are not specified in the biography. Please confirm current session options before booking.
How does the cost of sessions work?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session to start.
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