Dr. Phyllis Ingram, LMHC

Dr. Phyllis Ingram is a Florida-licensed mental health counselor with 30 years of professional experience, offering compassionate, experienced care across a wide range of life challenges. As an LMHC - Licensed Mental Health Counselor, she combines extensive clinical experience with evidence-based techniques to help people manage grief and loss, sleep difficulties, motivation and self-esteem concerns, career challenges, stress, anxiety, relationship and parenting issues, depression, and compassion fatigue.

She also works with clients facing aging and geriatric matters, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, communication difficulties, feelings of emptiness, first responder stress, forgiveness work, guilt and shame, isolation or loneliness, questions of life purpose, midlife transitions, panic and social anxiety, and issues common to women. Her approach emphasizes practical coping strategies alongside emotional exploration to support both immediate relief and longer-term growth.

Dr. Ingram creates an open, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be shared honestly. She recognizes that beginning therapy takes courage and affirms those who take that first step toward change and healing. Her practice aims to partner with each person to build resilience, restore functioning, and clarify goals for a more satisfying life.

Evidence-Based Approaches for Flexible Online Care

Dr. Ingram uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that combine practical skill-building with emotional exploration. One approach focuses on goal-oriented, skills-based work - teaching tools for stress management, sleep improvement, and anxiety reduction that can be practiced between sessions to produce measurable change. Another approach centers on supportive, exploratory therapy for grief, self-esteem, and life transitions - creating space to process emotions, clarify values, and rebuild purpose after loss or major change. A third emphasis involves behavioral strategies tailored to sleep and daily routines to address insomnia and related concerns in a practical, step-by-step way.

Choosing the right combination of techniques is a collaborative process. Dr. Ingram works with each client to identify needs, priorities, and preferences, then adapts methods over time to find the best fit for the individual's goals.

Online sessions - including video calls, phone appointments, live chat, or text-based messaging - make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. These options provide flexibility in scheduling, reduce travel time, and expand access to licensed professionals and therapists so care can continue from home or wherever the client is most comfortable.