Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care

Phyllis uses Client-Centered Therapy to make sessions about the person in front of her, focusing on listening, empathy, and building a trusting working relationship that supports exploration and personal goals. This approach helps when someone needs acceptance and a space to make sense of how they feel.

She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. CBT provides concrete exercises and simple experiments to try between sessions, which can be especially helpful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and unhelpful habits.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills appear in her work where emotion regulation and distress tolerance are priorities. DBT tools teach practical skills for managing intense emotions, improving communication, and reducing impulsive behavior.

Finding the best approach is part of the work together. The therapist will review your concerns, goals, and preferences and then recommend methods to try. That plan can change as progress is tracked and needs shift, keeping the process collaborative and goal-focused.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can fit a short check-in, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives and to keep momentum between meetings.