Sydney Phillips, LPC

I'm an LPC, Certified Trauma Professional who specializes in helping adults resolve the baggage of their past to move forward in their relationships, careers and lives. I use Accelerated Resolution Therapy or (ART) to get to the root of your distress safely and quickly so you feel relief faster. When we target the root of the problem, your healing is sustained and not just managed.

I specialize in helping women who’ve experienced sexual abuse. Any sexual assault, harassment, or even unwanted advances from another person is a big deal. I hear all the time, “it’s fine,” nothing really happened,” I’m just overreacting,” or “I am making a big deal out of nothing.” I want every person to know that those statements are ideas and beliefs that the brain creates as a way to make sense of something that doesn’t make sense, a way to cope with the feeling of helplessness, and a way to make something feel okay even though it’s not okay. Accepting the unacceptable can keep us alive during a moment of danger.

Our brain does a great job of coping with the world by putting puzzle pieces together, associating things we do with things that happen to us, this is the ultimate survival strategy. It is designed to make sure horrible things never happen to us again. Oftentimes, we don’t realize it’s still going long after the situation is over. I f you are constantly on high alert, hyper-focused on managing the people around you, and always feeling responsible for making sure nothing goes wrong, then you probably have some old survival strategies running in the background that are using up a lot of brain power and energy.