About Phillip
Rev. Phillip Deming is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 25 years of experience in California. She focuses on creating a respectful, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about stress, anxiety, relationships, grief, and family concerns.
She is comfortable including a client's spiritual beliefs in sessions when that feels helpful. She uses practical talk and listening to help people figure out what matters most to them. That can mean naming patterns in relationships, finding ways to manage overwhelming feelings, or working through grief and loss.
Background and approach
She also helps people handle the daily strain of chronic illness or caregiving responsibilities. Her approach draws on client-centered methods that put the person’s perspective first, along with cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and DBT skills for managing intense emotions.
She also uses mindfulness and narrative ideas to help people notice what they value and rewrite stories that no longer fit. Sessions are collaborative and paced to match each person’s needs. Rev.
Deming has experience supporting people facing addiction, bipolar mood concerns, sleep problems, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses issues like abandonment, attachment, blended family challenges, and communication problems. Her work extends to people managing cancer, chronic pain, or the aftermath of disaster.
She practices in California and conducts sessions in English. People can choose from video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit their schedules.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's experience and priorities. The therapist listens closely and reflects what she hears, helping clients feel understood and decide what changes matter most. This approach supports work on relationship concerns, stress, grief, and family dynamics.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and behaviors influence feelings. In simple steps, it helps people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and try new behaviors to reduce anxiety or depression. DBT, or dialectical behavior therapy, adds skills for emotion regulation and tolerating distress, which can be useful for intense feelings and relationship conflicts.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to match methods to their goals and preferences, adjusting pace and focus as needed. Clients are invited to give feedback so sessions remain relevant and practical.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for a therapy-style visit; phone calls need less bandwidth and can fit during a break. Live chat or text messaging works well for brief check-ins or when written reflection helps. These options are meant to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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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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