About Phyllis
Phyllis Smith is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in North Carolina. She draws on a collaborative, strengths-focused style to help people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and other life challenges. She begins by learning what matters most to each person.
Sessions focus on clear goals and small, practical steps people can try between meetings. The aim is to build resilience and open up new ways of thinking and behaving.
Background and approach
Her work includes helping with depression, grief, addictions, and issues that touch intimacy or self-esteem. She also supports people facing ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and the fallout from trauma or major life changes. Relationship topics and family difficulties are also common focuses.
Phyllis uses a mix of approaches to match the situation. She draws on client-centered techniques to follow a person’s lead, cognitive behavioral methods to change unhelpful thinking and behavior, and mindfulness practices to increase calm and awareness. The Gottman Method informs work on communication and relationship repair.
She has five years of clinical experience and emphasizes a respectful, hopeful tone in sessions. People who come to her often want practical tools and a clear plan to move forward. Language offered is English and sessions are provided online by several formats.
Practical therapy approaches for online care
Client-centered work focuses on the person’s priorities. The therapist listens closely and follows what the client names as most important, helping turn those priorities into clear goals and next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers hands-on exercises to change unhelpful patterns, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Phyllis will review what’s helping and what’s not, and together with the client decide which methods to try first and when to adjust the plan. The goal is to match tools to each person’s needs and to refine the approach as progress is made.
Online therapy lets people access sessions in ways that fit their life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging offer shorter check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options provide flexibility for people juggling work, caregiving, or travel while still working on relationship, anxiety, or mood concerns.
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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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