Philicia Barbieri, LMHC, LPC

Philicia Barbieri is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who centers work on relationships and life transitions. She creates a calm, steady space where people can slow down, be heard, and begin to make changes that matter. Philicia draws on ten years of clinical experience to guide conversations about recovery, mental health, and intimate partnership concerns.

Her approach blends practical tools with deeper meaning work. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and gently shift patterns that keep people stuck. Emotionally-Focused Therapy is used to help partners reconnect and understand recurring cycles. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is offered as a trauma-informed option when past events feel stuck in the body or mind.

Philicia’s background includes crisis counseling, community-based practice, and group therapy work. Those experiences inform an open, accepting style that meets people where they are. She also integrates mindfulness, meditation, and yoga as grounding strategies when clients find them useful.

She supports adults and couples through depression, anxiety, addiction recovery, grief, and major life changes. Philicia also helps with intimacy-related issues, anger, self-esteem, ADHD, and career questions. Additional focus areas include chronic pain and illness, codependency, infidelity, and panic attacks.

Philicia earned a Master of Arts in Professional Counseling from Carlow University in 2015. She practices in Pennsylvania and offers services in English. For international clients, sessions are available; confirm session options when you begin booking.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Philicia commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT works well for anxiety, depression, and many everyday stressors by focusing on small, practical steps.

She also draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy to address recurring relationship cycles. EFT helps partners identify emotions beneath conflict and practice new ways of connecting. For trauma that feels stuck, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing offers a structured way to process distressing memories and reduce their intensity.

Finding the right fit is part of the work. Philicia collaborates with each person to choose approaches that match goals, preferences, and the issues at hand. She adjusts pacing and tools based on what the client needs and how they respond.

If you are considering online sessions, confirm the therapist’s current session options before booking since formats were not specified in the biography. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight, and reduce travel time. Many people find that evidence-based methods like CBT, EFT, and EMDR adapt well to virtual settings when the therapist and client agree on a plan.