About Pamela
Pamela Phipps is a Licensed Professional Counselor who uses a practical, person-centered approach to help adults manage stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, and related concerns. She emphasizes straightforward conversations and steady support so people can take small, manageable steps toward change. Pamela has five years of clinical experience in Mississippi working with adults who face complex challenges.
Her background includes work with veterans, people experiencing homelessness, individuals in recovery from substance use, and incarcerated males.
Background and approach
That work gave her experience in crisis counseling, serious mental health concerns, self-injury, and trauma. She draws on those experiences to respond calmly when situations feel urgent or overwhelming. Pamela blends practical methods from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy with a client-centered attitude.
She also uses existential ideas and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing when appropriate. In sessions she focuses on clear goals, skill-building, and real-life problem solving rather than abstract theory. People can expect a collaborative process where goals are set together and a plan is adjusted over time.
Pamela pays attention to daily stressors like sleep problems, parenting strain, relationship conflict, and substance use patterns. She works to make strategies useful in the client’s everyday routines. Her approach aims to help adults increase coping skills, reduce distress, and manage life changes.
Pamela speaks English and practices in Mississippi. She offers several online session formats to fit different schedules and needs.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the client. It helps people feel heard and guides the work around their own goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. That makes it useful for anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and many day-to-day struggles. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills to reduce intense reactions and improve relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Pamela works collaboratively with each person to try methods that fit their needs and preferences, and she adjusts the plan based on what helps most. Clients and therapist decide together which techniques to use and when to change direction.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls let you work face to face when you want deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging work well for shorter check-ins, quick skill coaching, or squeezing a session into a busy day. These options help people fit therapy into real life and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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