About Philicia
Philicia Barbieri is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Pennsylvania. She brings a somatic-informed perspective that helps people notice how their bodies hold stress and emotion. Philicia uses straightforward language and practical tools so clients can make steady changes at their own pace.
She has ten years of experience working with addiction recovery, mood disorders, trauma, and major life transitions. Sessions often include breath work, body awareness, and mindfulness alongside talk therapy.
Background and approach
Philicia combines somatic techniques with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy when helpful for the issue at hand. Her work is shaped by community-based practice, crisis counseling, and group work. That background informs a direct but compassionate style that focuses on what matters most to each person.
She helps people reduce anxiety, manage cravings, cope with grief, and rebuild connection after distressing events. Philicia also brings mindfulness, meditation, and yoga-informed exercises into sessions as tools for grounding and emotional regulation. These practices are offered alongside evidence-based methods like EMDR for trauma-related concerns.
She meets clients where they are and works collaboratively on clear, achievable goals. Outside of clinical work she enjoys yoga, walks, and time at home with her husband and their three dogs. Her approach is practical, embodied, and aimed at helping people live with more clarity and balance.
Somatic and evidence-based approaches for online care
Somatic-informed work pays attention to bodily signals like tension, breath, and posture to help people notice how emotions show up in the body. This approach can be useful for stress, trauma responses, chronic pain, and anxiety as it teaches simple body-based skills to reduce reactivity.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, panic, and problems with mood and motivation. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people identify and reshape patterns in close relationships, which can improve connection and reduce distress tied to intimacy issues.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. Sessions can mix somatic exercises, CBT tools, mindfulness practices, and relational work depending on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, continue care during life transitions, and use short check-ins or longer video sessions as needed. Licensed professionals can tailor format and pace so therapy fits the practical realities of daily life.
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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