About Philicia
Philicia Barbieri uses a practical, person-centered approach to help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, and major life changes. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and a Licensed Professional Counselor with ten years of experience. Philicia aims to create a calm space where people can slow down, breathe, and feel understood.
She blends evidence-based methods with mindfulness and movement practices. Philicia often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
She brings in mindfulness and breathing techniques to help with emotion regulation and grounding. Her background includes community-based work, crisis counseling, group therapy, and long-term support for addiction recovery. Those experiences shape her practical, down-to-earth style and her focus on clear goals.
She helps people work through trauma, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, and anger, among other concerns. Philicia also uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy ideas to help partners better understand and respond to each other. She offers EMDR-informed methods to help people process memories that feel stuck.
Sessions often include coaching elements for life purpose, career questions, and building day-to-day coping skills. Sessions are available to English speakers in Pennsylvania and to international clients. Philicia weaves simple tools into conversations so people leave with concrete steps they can try between sessions.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Philicia commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and EMDR-informed methods alongside mindfulness practices. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments, which helps with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. EMDR-informed work guides people through processing distressing memories so those memories feel less triggering. Mindfulness adds short practices for grounding, emotion regulation, and staying present.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk through goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide whether to focus more on CBT skill-building, EMDR-informed processing, or mindfulness tools, and they adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people use face-to-face interaction and screen-sharing for worksheets or exercises. Phone sessions work well when video isn’t possible or when lower bandwidth is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging provide shorter check-ins, quick coaching, and flexible ways to touch base between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and maintain consistent progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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