About Phyllis
Phyllis Hartman helps people who are feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or uncertain about next steps in life. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, addiction, mood changes, grief, and issues around relationships or parenting. Phyllis aims to make sessions clear and practical so clients can try things that actually help between meetings.
Phyllis trained in social work and holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential, LCSW, in Pennsylvania. She has been practicing for 25 years and brings steady experience to each conversation.
Background and approach
Sessions are focused on what a person wants to change and how to get there in doable steps. Her approach is grounded in listening first and then helping clients test new ways of thinking and acting. She uses client-centered work to follow what matters most to the person, and cognitive behavioral tools to spot unhelpful thinking.
Dialectical behavior strategies and mindfulness techniques are added when people need skills for emotion regulation and stress management. Phyllis describes therapy as a kind of intensive teaching. She helps people recognize patterns that hold them back and practices different responses together in session.
Her faith and close relationships inform her values but she focuses on each person’s goals in therapy. She offers sessions to residents of Pennsylvania. Meetings can be scheduled by completing the platform’s short matching questionnaire and booking a time that fits each person’s schedule.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Phyllis uses client-centered therapy to focus sessions on what matters most to each person, offering a respectful, listening-first approach that helps identify personal goals and priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is used to help spot and change unhelpful thinking patterns and to practice new behaviors that reduce anxiety and improve mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, supplies concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness when stress or crisis spikes.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will review a person’s concerns, preferences, and goals together and then adapt techniques to fit what works best. Sessions often combine methods so clients get practical tools plus space to reflect and try things out.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video visits allow face-to-face conversation and skill coaching. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when being on camera is difficult. Live chat or text messaging can support quick check-ins, ongoing coaching, or short problem-solving between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or other demands while using methods that help address stress, mood, addiction, and relationship concerns.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English