About Corey
Corey Phillips welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or difficult relationship patterns. He is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who focuses on helping people who want clearer communication, healthier boundaries, and steadier emotional responses. Corey uses straightforward conversation to understand what matters most to each person.
He helps people name what they are feeling, try small changes, and notice what helps. Sessions are calm and practical rather than focused on labels or jargon.
Background and approach
Clients often bring concerns such as attachment struggles, caregiver stress, blended family adjustments, or the emotional effects of trauma and abuse. He also works with people facing chronic pain or illness, addiction-related issues, and complex stress after natural or human-caused disasters. Corey pays attention to how daily routines and relationships affect mood and behavior.
His work draws on client-centered methods, mindfulness practices, motivational interviewing, solution-focused techniques, and trauma-focused approaches. That mix is used to tailor short-term goals and longer-term growth depending on the person’s needs. Corey has five years of clinical experience and offers sessions in English from Texas.
He aims to meet people where they are and help them build practical skills to manage symptoms and improve relationships. The pace and focus are set together, so each person can follow a plan that fits their life.
How therapy approaches translate online
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and tailoring the work to each person's goals. Online sessions let Corey follow the pacing a person prefers, focus on what feels most important, and adjust strategies as things change.Mindfulness Therapy uses simple attention and breathing techniques to reduce reactivity and increase calm. In virtual sessions these practices can be taught, practiced together, and adapted for short daily exercises to use between meetings.
Motivational Interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change and build motivation step by step. Over video or chat, the therapist guides questions and reflections that clarify values and encourage small commitments that fit a person's life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Corey will collaborate with each person to decide which methods to try first and will change course when something isn’t working. The goal is a plan that matches needs, goals, and personal preferences rather than a one-size-fits-all protocol.
Online care offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone sessions can fit a quick check-in or lower bandwidth situations, and chat or messaging supports brief updates or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy steady around work, caregiving, and daily life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English