About Eileen
Eileen OBrien Phelps is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with 28 years of experience. She focuses on helping people navigate depression, anxiety, stress, grief, and ADHD-related challenges. Her approach is straightforward and practical, aimed at helping people regain confidence and move forward.
She draws on several approaches to meet people where they are. Sessions often begin with a conversation about immediate needs and goals. From there she and the client create a clear plan with doable steps.
Background and approach
She emphasizes strengths people already have and builds on them over time. Eileen uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and develop different skills. She also practices client-centered methods that prioritize the person's perspective and pace.
When trauma is part of the story, she can use trauma-focused work, including EMDR, to address painful memories. Mindfulness and solution-focused strategies are woven into sessions to offer practical tools for managing stress and coping with life changes. Eileen helps clients apply these tools to real situations, such as parenting strain, relationship conflict, or workplace stress.
Her style is calm, direct, and hopeful. She trained in the University of Maryland system and has worked with people facing substance use, domestic violence aftermath, adoption and foster care concerns, and first responder issues. Eileen works with each person to set realistic goals and track progress.
She aims to help people find purpose and steady, manageable change.
How Eileen blends approaches online
Client-centered work focuses on the person's perspective and priorities. It involves listening closely, reflecting what matters most, and letting the client guide the pace and goals. This approach helps when someone needs understanding and a steady, respectful space to talk.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. In practical online sessions this means identifying unhelpful thinking, practicing new skills, and using short between-session tasks to reinforce changes; it often helps with anxiety, depression, and stress. EMDR, used for trauma-focused work, involves structured processing of traumatic memories and can reduce the intensity of painful reactions when done step by step with a clinician.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss options, try methods that fit the issue, and adjust plans based on how the client responds. That collaborative process helps make therapy feel useful and relevant to everyday life.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video allows face-to-face interaction and guided exercises. Phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a session needs to be shorter. Live chat and text messaging support work between sessions and quick check-ins. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy routine and keep progress moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- 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
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