Cecilia Phillips-Binder, PhD
770-953-4744 ext. 21
Dr. Cecilia
Phillips-Binder works with adults in individual and couples therapy.
She addresses problems commonly faced in today’s hectic and
stress-ridden modern world, including relationship issues,
self-image and body image concerns, women’s issues, life
transitions, and personal growth. She also works with the common
conditions of depression, anxiety,
grief and loss, trauma, and
stress management. Dr. Phillips-Binder has a special interest in
helping women as they develop a career and manage romantic, marital,
and parenting aspirations.
Dr. Phillips-Binder has extensive experience working with people who
have chronic and serious physical illnesses, such as cancer,
cardiovascular disease, and pulmonary disease. She has a special
interest in helping people manage the psychological difficulties of
terminal illness.
Dr. Phillips-Binder believes that mood, thinking, and behavior are
all affected by a sense of belonging and closeness in important
relationships. “Very early in our lives we develop patterns in the
ways we relate to people close to us. These patterns persist into
adulthood and affect the quality of our relationships. We also
construct a self-image based on interactions in our important early
relationships, which affects how we feel, think, and behave in
relationship to our self…how we take care of ourselves.” Coming from
this perspective, Dr. Phillips Binder emphasizes that the primary
goals of psychotherapy include identifying and changing problematic
relationship patterns and improving self-image. “My experience
suggests that as clients develop greater awareness of themselves and
how they relate to others and greater acceptance of themselves,
their symptoms tends to diminish and they tend to experience
decreased stress and increased capacity for creativity, joy, and
fulfillment in their lives.”
Dr. Phillips-Binder’s believes that psychotherapy is a collaborative
process. Further, providing safety, acceptance, and honesty is an
important part of the therapy since, “Clients can only explore the
difficult and very personal issues that are important to their lives
within a safe, collaborative environment.”
Dr. Phillips-Binder was inspired to become a psychotherapist while
working as a research assistant on one of the major psychotherapy
research projects conducted during the 1980’s. As a single mother of
two teenagers, she received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from
Vanderbilt University in 1995. Dr. Phillips-Binder recently moved to
Atlanta from Nashville, Tennessee, where she was in clinical
practice for twelve years. For the past ten years, in her private
practice she specialized in working with professionals in business,
health care, entertainment, and academics, as well as their family
members. She joined PFPA in the Spring, 2007 and has immediate
openings for people seeking individual or couples therapy in the
Buckhead and Marietta offices. |
List of PFPA Therapists:
Ana Adelstein, PhD
Susan Berel, PhD
Jeffrey Binder, PhD, ABPP
Cecilia Phillips-Binder, PhD
Gerald S. Drose, Ph.D.
Elaine Eassa, PhD
Martin Fleet, PhD
Michael Frazier, MS Ed, LPC
Abby Friedman, PhD
Jennifer Gale, PsyD
Amanda Lorenz, PhD
Steven Perlow, PhD
Carla Santiago-Barbosa, PsyDAllyn St. Lifer, LCSW
Kimberly Smiley, PsyD
Jennifer Spring, PhD
Jennifer Swales, PhD
Dina Zeckhausen, PhD
Buckhead Location
Marietta Location
Canton Location
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