About Eileen
Eileen OBrien Phelps is a licensed mental health counselor with 28 years of experience supporting people through depression, stress, anxiety, and trauma. She practices in Florida and draws on a long career helping clients rebuild confidence and find purpose after painful events. Her work is straightforward and goal-oriented, with an emphasis on each person’s strengths.
She takes a client-centered approach and works collaboratively to create a clear plan. Sessions often involve practical problem solving and tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
Background and approach
For trauma-related concerns she uses EMDR alongside mindfulness and solution-focused techniques when appropriate. She often helps people manage parenting stress, relationship struggles, grief, anger, and life changes. ADHD, postpartum depression, phobias, and first responder issues are also among her areas of focus.
She also addresses adoption and foster care concerns, family of origin issues, multicultural matters, and reactions to natural or human-caused disasters. Eileen favors straightforward conversation and skills practice over abstract theory. She aims to build on what’s already working in a person’s life and to strengthen coping tools for daily challenges.
The goal is practical progress that feels meaningful to each individual. Her background includes long clinical experience and a focus on combining research-informed methods with a holistic view of the person. People who want clear steps, steady support, and a strengths-based plan often find her style fits well.
How Eileen’s Approaches Translate to Online Therapy
Client-centered therapy places your priorities first and starts by listening to what matters most to you. In online sessions this means the therapist asks about your goals and adapts sessions to focus on what you want to change. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and trying new behaviors to get different results; online work often includes homework, thought records, and concrete exercises you can do between meetings. EMDR is a trauma-focused method that uses structured processing to reduce distress from painful memories; when used remotely it involves guided bilateral stimulation and careful pacing to help process trauma reactions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose which methods to try first based on needs, goals, and comfort. Plans are adjusted over time so the approach fits the person rather than the person fitting the method.
Online sessions offer flexibility in how people connect. Video calls let you use visual cues and screen-shared worksheets, while phone sessions work when video is not possible or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins and ongoing contact between sessions. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and different life demands.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English