LMFT, 16 years of experience
My name is Phil Ganci, and I am a licensed marriage and family therapist with 16 years of experience. I am licensed in both Florida and South Carolina. I strive to create a safe and collaborative space where clients can work together with me to identify their concerns, clarify their goals for therapy, create actionable plans for change, and reduce stress-related symptoms. Most of my experience is with adolescents, adults and couples, but I am capable of working with clients of all ages.
Clients can expect a series of open-ended questions designed to explore their presenting concerns and determine how I can best support them. I focus on creating a safe and welcoming environment that encourages clients to open up. Additionally, I provide psychoeducation to address any questions or concerns clients may have about me or the therapeutic process.
I believe my greatest strengths as a clinician lie in my ability to build strong, positive relationships with clients, support them in identifying and refining their therapeutic goals, and create effective plans to achieve those goals. I am an attentive listener who is dedicated to empowering clients to sustain the progress they make outside of therapy sessions.
The majority of my clinical experience has been with clients facing anxiety, trauma, depression, marital challenges, and other relationship concerns. While I have primarily worked with adolescents, young adults, and couples, I am skilled in supporting clients across all age groups.
I work to create a safe environment so clients could feel able to collaborate with therapist to identify stressors, set measurable goals and build rapport. Therapist helps clients identify and challenge negative thoughts, emotions and behaviors, and work towards correcting cognitive distortions, and developing positive coping skills.
Therapist works towards creating a safe environment for couples to open up and develop an understanding of the presenting problems in their relationship. Therapist helps clients develop more positive communication skills and reconnect through couples skill building.
Therapist helps client identify phobias and sources of anxiety, slowly creates a plan to help expose clients to those stressors, while preventing clients usual response. This helps client build a tolerance to uncertainty, and ultimately reduce anxiety.
Therapist asks open-ended questions to engage in reflective listening, affirming the person and their experience, their ability to change and summarizing that change to provide a plan for change.
Therapist asks a series of questions to find exceptions to clients problems in order to encourage times of success and build off that to create lasting change.