Phyllis Houston, LPC

Mississippi · 26 years in practice

Phyllis Houston is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 26 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma.

License and registration

LPC, Mississippi: 0457 · expires June 2027
NPI: 1437374436 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 26
Languages: English

Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.

About Phyllis

Phyllis Houston is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 26 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma. She helps clients who are facing relationship strain, parenting challenges, intimacy concerns, career decisions, and the emotional toll of caregiving or first responder work. Phyllis offers a calm, direct approach that focuses on concrete steps and clearer feelings.

Her style centers on listening closely and helping people clarify what matters to them.

Background and approach

She uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people notice and name emotions that get in the way of connection. She also draws on Client-Centered methods to keep the work grounded in the client's pace and priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is part of her toolbox for changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.

She mixes practical skill-building with deeper conversations about meaning and choice. Sessions often include problem-solving, goal-setting, and work to manage intense feelings. Phyllis has worked with many kinds of concerns over a long career, so she can point to a range of strategies that have helped others.

She explains options plainly and helps clients pick the steps that fit their life. Her goal is to help people feel more able to cope and make clearer decisions. She practices from Mississippi and works in English.

Sessions can be scheduled in several online formats and are arranged through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

Focus areas and approaches

Everything Phyllis lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

Stress, Anxiety
Relationship issues
Family conflicts
Trauma and abuse
Depression
Grief
Intimacy-related issues
Parenting issues
Anger management
Self esteem
Career difficulties
Coping with life changes
Coaching
Compassion fatigue
Abandonment
Aging and geriatric issues
Caregiver issues and stress
Co-morbidity
Codependency
Commitment issues
Control issues
Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
Dependent personality
Divorce and separation
Domestic violence
Emptiness
Family problems
Fatherhood issues
First responder issues
Forgiveness
Guilt and shame
Isolation / loneliness
Jealousy
Life purpose
Midlife crisis
Mood disorders
Multicultural concerns
Panic disorder and panic attacks
Phobias
Prejudice and discrimination
Self-love
Visually impaired
Women's issues
Workplace issues

Approaches Phyllis names

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Online support

How emotion-focused and practical methods work online

Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and name the feelings that shape their behavior and relationships. Online work with EFT can make it easier to notice patterns in moments when emotions run high and to practice new ways of responding. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a supportive, nonjudgmental space where the client's goals lead the work and pace is set by the person in session. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and habits through concrete steps like skill practice and behavior experiments, which translate well to remote sessions.

Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they will try methods and adjust based on what helps, blending emotion-focused conversation with problem-solving when needed.

Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions are held. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat lets someone check in quickly, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to try different formats to see what works best.

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Questions people ask

What concerns does Phyllis help with?

She supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, caregiver stress, and work-related challenges including first responder issues.

How would you describe her therapeutic style?

Her approach is warm and direct, combining Emotionally-Focused Therapy, Client-Centered work, and practical CBT techniques to balance feeling and action.

What sort of experience does she bring?

She has 26 years of counseling experience working with a wide range of emotional and life challenges.

What credentials and location are listed?

She is an MS LPC - a Licensed Professional Counselor - and she practices in Mississippi.

Are sessions available in other languages or internationally?

Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not accepted at this time.

Which session formats does she use?

She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.

How is cost handled for sessions?

Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

What are the first steps to begin working together?

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