About Phyllis
Phyllis Houston is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people facing anxiety, depression, relationship strain, grief, and parenting stress. She supports those handling trauma, career questions, burnout, and life changes. Her work is practical and down-to-earth.
With 26 years of experience, she draws on client-centered methods and goal-focused tools. Sessions focus on what someone is struggling with right now and on small steps that make daily life easier. She listens first, then helps set clear goals and actions.
Background and approach
Her approach mixes Cognitive Behavioral techniques with Emotionally-Focused and existential ideas to match each person's needs. That means addressing unhelpful thoughts, improving emotional connection, and finding personal meaning when life feels uncertain. Phyllis uses Motivational Interviewing and solution-focused strategies when people want practical change fast.
Those tools can help with decision-making, building routines, or coping with crisis and caregiver stress. She also helps people work through abandonment, codependency, control issues, and anger. Clients can expect a warm, respectful tone and straightforward guidance.
Phyllis helps people set realistic goals and practices to try between sessions. She works with adults from many backgrounds and brings steady experience to difficult moments.
How therapeutic approaches fit into online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person's experience and building a trusting connection. In practice this means the therapist listens carefully, reflects what they hear, and follows the client's lead to set goals and priorities.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. It works well for anxiety, depression, and stress by breaking problems into manageable steps and practicing new skills between sessions.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) is about identifying and naming feelings and improving emotional bonds. It can help people who feel stuck in patterns of distance, anger, or repeated conflict by teaching ways to express needs more clearly.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what methods feel most useful, and then shape sessions to fit. That collaborative planning helps match tools to the issues someone wants to address.
Online sessions offer flexibility and multiple ways to connect. Video calls let people use face-to-face conversation when a deeper exchange is helpful. Phone sessions work well for shorter check-ins or when video would use too much bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief updates, quick coping tips, or pacing that fits busy days. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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