Betty W. Phillips Ph.D., Psychology

Betty W. Phillips, Ph.D., Psychology

Dr. Betty Phillips

Welcome to my web site.

This web site will provide you with information about my professional services and office locations. I am a clinical psychologist and life coach with more than 30 years of experience in providing services to my clients. I offer a free initial consultation for you to get to know me. The articles I wrote in the Reading Room and Advice Line will provide you with helpful information you can use in your own life or in counseling sessions with me. My Forest Garden office is convenient to Chapel Hill and Chatham County and a short drive from Durham and many other Triangle locations.

The services I offer are listed below. You will see that from this list and the articles that I am a very experienced therapist and life coach, able to work with you to provide individualized treatment in your areas of concern. You'll also find my Forest Garden office unique and delightful. The office is relaxing and beautiful, full of light and flowers. You can walk through or sit in the garden and forest areas, looking at the ponds and listening to the birds. Before or after your session you can walk on the path through the forest and down to the creek.

You can e-mail or call me to request services. If you want an introduction and a preview of my services, please ask for "a free initial consultation."

Most people are concerned about payment issues for therapy or life coaching. My goal is to be helpful to prospective clients to assist them in making important decisions involved in choosing these services. This page includes information about insurance which can be used to pay for sessions. Please also consult the section listed above entitled "Affordable Therapy or Life Coaching" for more information about this issue.

Forest Garden Office

Call to find out if Dr. Phillips offers services that may be helpful to you. Services include assistance in: Life Improvement; Happiness and Optimism; Coping with Life Crises; Supportive Counseling. Specific issues/services include:

*Adjustment Disorders
*Adult Attention Deficit Disorder
*Adult Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
*Anger Management
*Assertiveness
*Anxiety, Phobias, Panic Attacks
*Caregiving
*Caregiving-Final Days
*Child Custody Consultation
*Couples Counseling
*Death and Dying
*Depression
*Dissociative Identity Disorder
*Divorce, Separation
*Domestic Violence/Spousal Abuse
*Family Counseling
*Forgiveness/Grievance Therapy
*Gay and Lesbian Issues(GLBTQ)
*Grief and Bereavement
*Illness and Cancer
*Infidelity
*Marriage Counseling
*Near-Death Experiences
*Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
*Parent Coordination Consultations
*Parenting
*Postpartum Depression
*Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
*Relationship Counseling
*Retirement
*Sleep Disorders
*Single Parenting/Step-Parenting
*Stress Management
*Trauma, including Sexual Assault

Dr. Phillips will work with you to make her services accessible and affordable. She schedules sessions in a flexible manner. Dr. Phillips participates in a variety of health insurance programs and files insurance forms for your convenience.

Dr. Phillips therapy style can be described as cognitive-behavioral and interpersonal. Most important, you will plan the sessions together according to your current needs and goals. Dr. Phillips works with adults and senior adults. She provides evaluation and consultation services based upon her years of experience as a family, adolescent and child therapist but she is not currently accepting children or adolescents for individual therapy.

Dr Phillips has added other techniques to her therapy including Energy Psychology and Psych-K. You can ask her more about these services if you are interested in obtaining additional information.

Option in good weather: Session by the creek

Walking trail or see Psych-mobile page

Date Site Published: 5-25-05, Updated 12-02-11

I file insurance for my clients who need only to pay copays and/or deductibles if required by their insurance company. I have been a preferred provider for many years with Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Medicare and Value Options. I have recently been selected for the Aetna, MedCost, MHN (Mental Health Network) and Tri-care Prime/ Preferred psychological provider panels, and I now file these insurance claims.

NOTICE

There is continuing concern about natural disasters in our world. The tragedies seemed to escalate following the oil spill and the damage to our ocean and the Gulf area. See http://www.fragileday.com/ for a very beautiful short video to benefit the Gulf. Although not well covered by the media, there is long term damage to the area and wildlife including dolphins. Also send your prayers and meditations to Haiti, Chile, New Zealand and Japan and our citizens who are suffering from many natural disasters. The Global Coherence Initiative sponsors guided world-wide meditations to send love and care to suffering people; see info@glcoherence.org.

PRAYERS FOR PEACE

Due to the many heartbreaking problems manifesting in our world these days, I have provided a link to classic prayer meditations for peace in the world.

Forest Garden Office
466 Eagle Point Road
Pittsboro, NC 27312

Phone: (919) 967-1860

FAX 919-929-1457