Dr. Phyllis Mogielski-Watson, LPC, LPCC

Dr. Phyllis Mogielski-Watson is a seasoned psychotherapist with three decades of clinical experience who brings a strengths-based, humanistic perspective to counseling. She holds LPC and LPCC credentials - LPC meaning Licensed Professional Counselor and LPCC indicating a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor - and has worked with teens, adults, and older adults across a variety of settings. Her work emphasizes health, wellness, and medical-related concerns while also supporting people through life transitions, stressors, and recovery from substance use.

Her clinical interests include grief and loss, postpartum depression, women’s issues, multiethnic identity development, student-athlete adjustment, mid-life challenges, and finding life balance. She also addresses a wide range of concerns such as stress, anxiety, relationship and family difficulties, trauma and abuse, addictions, depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD, parenting and career issues, sleep problems, and compassion fatigue. Additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment issues, caregiver stress, codependency, communication and commitment problems, divorce and family-of-origin dynamics, fertility and cancer-related concerns, first responder issues, and coping with disasters.

Therapeutic work is informed by a variety of evidence-based and experiential approaches, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Emotionally-Focused and Attachment-Based methods, Mindfulness, Motivational Interviewing, Narrative and Psychodynamic therapies, Solution-Focused strategies, Somatic and Trauma-Focused techniques, and Internal Family Systems. She uses a collaborative process that invites individuals to tell their lived story while identifying goals and practical action plans to build coping skills and move forward.

In addition to direct psychotherapy, she has provided professional supervision and has been recognized as a subject matter expert in media appearances. Her practice centers on helping people rediscover purpose and meaning, guided by the motto Love YOUR Journey ~ Live YOUR Life.