Holistic Jungian therapist specializing in trauma and relationships
I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with more than five years experience in providing therapy for individuals, couples, and families. My experience include working with a diverse population in regard to age, gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, and other diversity factors.
I believe people have the ability to become their best self mentally, emotionally, and physically. My approach to counseling, therefore, involves genuine interest in your hopes, dreams, goals, and aspirations in order to reach your greatest level of wellness and potential. I take a collaborative approach in identifying your specific goals for counseling and guide you toward them. I am a strengths-based therapist who utilizes the positive aspects of your life to build resiliency, restores hope, and open the door for new perspectives. I identify opportunities for growth and will challenge you in a nurturing and empathetic manner as you acquire and implement new patterns of thinking and behavior.
My primary counseling modalities include Bowenian (personal growth and development), experiential, structural and strategic, with a systems approach, or the idea that a person is best understood by the contexts in with they live and relate with other people. However, due to the unique needs and circumstances of every individual, I will use different methods of therapy based on those needs.
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Phyllis Smith is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in North Carolina. She holds a North Carolina license as a marriage and family therapist (NC LMFT 1905) and has five years of clinical experience providing therapy to individuals, couples, and families.
Her background includes work with a diverse range of people across age, gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, and other diversity factors. Phyllis works from the belief that people can move toward their best mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing, and she brings genuine interest in each person’s hopes, goals, and aspirations as part of that process.
She uses a collaborative, strengths-based approach to identify specific counseling goals and guide clients toward them, helping build resilience, restore hope, and open new perspectives. Phyllis will identify growth opportunities and provide challenges in a nurturing, empathetic way as clients adopt and apply new patterns of thinking and behavior.
Her primary modalities include Bowenian approaches to personal growth, experiential methods, and structural and strategic techniques, all viewed through a systems lens that considers people in the context of their relationships. Because every person’s needs are unique, she adapts therapeutic methods to match each client’s circumstances.
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