Rhonna W. Phillips
Counseling & Therapy Services, LLC

LPC-S and LMFT

  
     
   
     
 

Email: RPhillips@BirminghamCounselor.com
Website: www.BirminghamCounselor.com
Work Cell: (205) 356-9834
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 26387 Birmingham, AL 35260
Physical Address: 1320 Alford Avenue Suite 101 Birmingham, AL 35226

  
     
 

EXPERIENCE:

Private Practice since October 2010.
Ongoing peer consultation group member since 2010.
Ongoing training as a Collaborative Practice mental health professional since 2011.

Adult, outpatient, Therapist for Alabama Psychiatric Services, 10+ years. Individual, Couples, Family & Group Therapy. Experience with multiple problems and client populations from Adjustment Disorders to Schizophrenia, PTSD to Substance Abuse. Five years as an EAP counselor for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama employees.
Supervision provided for licensure as a professional counselor.

Supervision Group member, 2+ years, w/ Charles Alexander, ThM, LMFT, LPC 

Child, Biological and Foster Family Therapist for Gateway’s In-home Wrap Around Program and Therapeutic Foster Care Programs uder contracts with Shelby and Jefferson County DHR, 6+ years. Experience with abused and at-risk children and their families following the R.C. Decree lawsuit settlement, to preserve safe families.

9+ years in North Carolina providing clinical case management and advocacy with Conduct Disordered and SMI teens and children with developmental disabilities. Executive Director for the Association for Retarded Citizens, High Point; Manager of 24-hour high management MR/BD group home for "Willie M." adolescents, Forsyth-Stokes Mental Health; "Willie M." Case Manager for Randolph County Mental Health; "Willie M." residential Child Care Worker for Lutheran Family Services, Burlington, North Carolina.

  
  EDUCATION:

The University of Alabama at Birmingham- M.A. in Agency Counseling from the
School of Education 1994. 

Guilford College-Greensboro, NC- B.A. double major in 
Psychology and Sociology 1983.

  
  Training for technology use in Counseling:

6/25-26/2015 (15 hours) Distance Counseling Training by The Telehealth Certification Institute, Ray Barrett, LPC, LMHC. NBCC ACEP# 6693.

2/22/2020 (3 hours) Technology in Marriage and Family Therapy by AL Association Marriage and Family Therapy Network, Scott Ketring, PhD, LMFT, Sponsored by AAMFT NBCC ACEP# 5209.

4/10-4/11/2020 (15 hours) Certificate in Technology Assisted Services in Supervision, by AL Association Marriage and Family Therapy Network, Tony Watkins, LMFT and Dale Bertram, LMFT, Sponsored by AAMFT; NBCC ACEP#5209.

7/14/2023 (4 Hours) Telemental Health: Ethics & Issues by Paul Hard, PhD, LPC-S; Keith Cates, PhD, LPC-S; and Hiram Faircloth, ALC NBCC ACEP#6779.