Simone Phillips was born and raised in the state of Michigan. She moved to the state of Nevada in 2007 where she completed her Associates degree of General Studies at the College of Southern Nevada in 2012 and her Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education at the University of Las Vegas, Nevada in 2014.

While serving as a pre-school teacher’s assistant for four years and a lead teacher for one and a half years at Acelero Learning’s Head Start program, Simone developed a love and passion for children and their academic development. It was in this role that Simone realized that she was also interested in children’s overall development and that a lot of that development took place outside of the classroom. As a result of this realization, Simone decided to pursue her Master’s degree in social work to focus on helping mitigate the effects of childhood trauma and educate parents on how to create environments for children to thrive emotionally in. Throughout Simone’s studies she learned that if a child’s environment is stable, they have the opportunity to focus in school and achieve their highest potential.

Simone received her Master’s degree of Social Wok from Simmons College (now Simmons University) in 2018. Simmons College was the first school in the United States to provide training to clinical social workers (therapists) and collaborated with Harvard University to create the program in 1904. When Simone found this information out and saw how close Simmons’ campus is to Harvard, she began to tell people she graduated from Harvard’s little brother’s school, Simmons.

Simone specializes in the utilization of multiple therapeutic treatment modalities including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Psychodynamic Treatment Modality, Trauma Informed Play therapy , Solution-Focused Therapy, and next to Solution-Focused Therapy. Please click the therapeutic interventions tab for a more thorough description of each modality.