Phyllis Haig, MFT Counseling

Phyllis Haig, MFT Counseling Marriage, Child, Family Counseling With a clear sense of treatment needs, we work together to develop goals and plans. I also help you laugh more.

About Phyllis Haig:

My counseling style is eclectic, warm, effective, and resourceful, I connect with clients deeply and quickly. Utilizing a variety of state-of-the-art skills (breathwork, body-awareness, EMDR, guided fantasy, writing exercises, homework, cognitive-behavioral, to name a few), I tend to use a brief therapy, strategic, results-based approach. I don’t believe in wasting the client's time in cases that are capable of more rapid shifts and feel that change can usually occur in a brief time when the right tools are used. I also provide long-term, in-depth therapy when indicated. The individuals I see often work on habit and addiction recovery, second stage recovery, trauma survival, parenting and family systems issues, phobias, depression and anxiety, career and personal coaching, dissociative disorders, dual diagnosis, creativity blocks, self-esteem and shame healing, and inner family repairing. The couples who come to me usually work on communication skills, loyalty breaches, sexuality problems, anger management and substance abuse/codependency. As a licensed MFT for 25 years, I have valuable long-term experience in many settings. I have taught university and junior college classes, offered seminars, run groups, and supervised staff and interns. I work with individuals, families, and couples, in long and short term therapy. I offer appointments Monday to Thursday, day or evening hours available. Specialties

•Adolescents
•Adoption
•Adults
•Anxiety, panic
•Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
•Bipolar Disorder
•Children
•Chronic illness/pain management
•Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
•Compulsive Disorder
•Couples
•Depression
•Developmental Disorder
•Divorce
•Domestic Violence
•Eating Disorder
•Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing
•Family
•GLBTQ
•Gestalt Therapy
•Grief/Loss Group Therapy
•Infidelity Issues
•Life Threatening Illness
•Loss of personal identity or meaning
•Mind/Body Disharmony
•Multiple personalities
•Parenting
•Personality Disorder
•Phobias
•Physical Abuse
•Play Therapy
•Sand Tray Therapy
•S*xual abuse
•S*xual problems or dysfunction
•Sleep Disorders
•Step/blended family
•Stress Management
•Trauma or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
•Women's Issues


License Type: Marriage & Family Therapist
License #: MFC 23463
License Issued: 1987
Graduate School: Sonoma State University
Office Location: Santa Rosa

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11/18/2019

happy birfday missy. take some time fo yoursef, you have truly earned it this year!!!

01/23/2018
08/12/2014

Well people, it is time for me to hang up my hat and retire. I have been a counselor since 1977, licensed since 1987, and I have helped a lot of people find peace with themselves, and I have lit a fire under some others' asses. And their journey has always helped me grow. It has been an incredible career and I am ever grateful for each and every client and colleague I had the honor of working with. I don't know what I will do next, it will manifest as the next chapter I am sure. I had a dream about seeking a magic wand, and when I found it, it turned in to a pen. Hm, to write with?

04/23/2014

In the Buddhist teachings there are many guidelines and methods to help us become more compassionate people. When we apply these practices in the space of intimacy, with the person who triggers us, drives us crazy, irritates, and bores us--the person we are closest to--we begin to walk our spiritual…

04/23/2014

Raghu: Can you talk about how we go about cultivating compassion so that we start to become kinder to ourselves and to others? Ram Dass: We’ve lived our li

04/18/2014

For most of us, the joy that is possible in our daily lives is so outside the scope of our experience that we have difficulty even imagining it. So consider here for a moment that most men alive have been through some form of this systematic conditioning.

03/26/2014

Drugs are terrifying.

03/19/2014

He left it for his grandkids... and the entire world.

02/12/2014

A book titled “Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the Nature of the Universe“ has stirred up the Internet, because it contained a notion that life does not end when the body dies, and it can last forever. The author of this publication, scientist Dr. Rober

02/04/2014
01/27/2014

Elephant Journal
When we bring maitri (translated here as unconditional friendliness) to the parts of us we have been trying for years to be rid of, a surprising change can often occur.

There is a key word here: unconditional.

We bring this friendliness to all aspects of ourselves, not just the parts we like. We may be surprised to find that the more we bring acceptance and this unconditional friendliness to ourselves, the less the so-called negative aspects of ourselves begin to bother us. The more they gradually begin to drift away. There is an important distinction here.

The point of developing maitri is not to be rid of these negative parts of ourselves; the point of it is the unconditional friendliness itself, not the outcome. If we are developing it in order to be rid of, we are simply transforming our aggression into a subtler and more subversive style.

01/17/2014

So begins the spoken portion of a seven-minute video that features a prayer/poem written by the Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh, with chant exquisitely sung by Brother Phap Niem.

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