About Philicia
Philicia Barbieri uses a blend of practical therapies to help people manage stress, addiction, trauma, and life transitions. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, and a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, with ten years of experience. Her style is down-to-earth and focused on real change rather than jargon.
She aims to create a calm, steady space where people can slow down and be heard. Philicia draws on cognitive behavioral tools to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
She also uses mindfulness and breathing techniques from her background as a yoga instructor to help people regulate emotion in the moment. EMDR is part of her approach for processing traumatic memories that feel stuck. Her work has included crisis counseling, community-based programs, and group therapy, which shaped a flexible way of working with each person’s needs.
Philicia combines motivational interviewing methods to strengthen motivation for change, especially around substance use and recovery goals. She meets people where they are and helps them set practical, achievable steps. Sessions often focus on skills that can be used between meetings, such as grounding practices, thought records, or behavioral experiments.
Philicia also offers relationship-focused work when couples want to improve intimacy and communication. She centers clients’ values and supports them as they clarify purpose and next steps. Philicia earned a Master’s in Professional Counseling from Carlow University and practices in Pennsylvania.
She works with adults and couples who are navigating depression, anxiety, grief, addiction, chronic illness, and other life stressors.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Philicia uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change thoughts and behaviors that cause distress. CBT sessions often include clear tools like thought records and behavior experiments that are easy to practice between meetings. She also integrates Emotionally-Focused Therapy when relationship patterns are the focus, helping partners name emotions, improve connection, and respond differently to one another.EMDR is another part of her toolkit for addressing trauma. When appropriate, EMDR protocols can be delivered online with careful pacing, grounding techniques, and step-by-step processing to help move memories that feel stuck. Philicia works with clients to choose which approach fits their current needs and adapts methods as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility and practical access. Video calls let therapists observe nonverbal cues and practice in-session skills together. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can support ongoing tracking, brief coaching, and between-session check-ins. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family, and recovery obligations while using the therapeutic tools that matter most.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania, Florida
- Languages
- English