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Willow Whitehouse-Briggs, LCPC
Maine
Maine LCPC - Stress and Relationship Concerns
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- Attachment approaches
- Body-aware methods
About Willow
Willow Whitehouse-Briggs is a Maine Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) with 35 years of professional experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, anger, and self-esteem issues. She has worked with teens and adults and brings long-term clinical experience to each session.
She spent many years as a school psychologist and has additional experience with Dance Movement Therapy and Authentic Movement. That background informs her awareness that difficult experiences can show up in the body as well as in thoughts and feelings. She incorporates that understanding into conversations about symptoms and coping strategies.
Willow uses practical approaches to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and patterns. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy alongside attachment-focused and client-centered ideas to structure sessions and set concrete steps people can try between meetings. Sessions are grounded in everyday language and actions that can be practiced outside the session.
She treats relationship concerns with focused, interactive methods that address communication, patterns of interaction, and emotional responses. For trauma, anxiety, anger, and grief-related work she balances present-day coping skills with attention to how past experiences continue to affect reactions.
Willow encourages clients to identify strengths they already have and to try small changes that build on those strengths. She describes the role of the counselor as an extra pair of eyes and ears to notice patterns and offer different ways of responding. The aim is clearer thinking, fewer distressing reactions, and more predictable ways to handle daily stressors.
How Willow’s approaches translate to online work
Willow commonly draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test small behavioral changes. CBT focuses on concrete steps you can try between sessions to reduce anxiety, manage anger, or change repetitive patterns.She also uses Attachment-Based ideas to look at how early and ongoing relationship patterns affect current responses. That approach helps with relationship concerns by clarifying how people relate and respond to one another. Client-Centered Therapy is another strand she uses, which emphasizes clear listening and reflecting so clients can sort through their own goals and choices.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Willow will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences rather than starting with a single fixed method. She will suggest concrete exercises and small experiments that suit the chosen approach.
The practical benefits of online sessions include fitting therapy into a weekly routine and making attendance easier around work or caregiving. Confirm the current session formats before booking, since the biography did not list specific options. Online work can make it simpler to have short check-ins, practice grounded breathing, or talk through a recent interaction without needing to travel.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
35+ years
Listed in
Maine
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she address most often?
She focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, anger, and self-esteem. Additional areas include obsessive-compulsive difficulties, phobias, postpartum depression, and issues common to veterans and first responders.
How would she describe her therapeutic approach?
She uses a blend of practical methods including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, attachment-based ideas, and client-centered techniques. Sessions emphasize noticing thoughts and habits and trying concrete alternative responses.
How many years has she worked in the field?
She has 35 years of professional experience, including time as a school psychologist and work with movement-based therapies.
What credential does she hold and where does she practice?
She is an LCPC licensed in Maine and practices there.
Are sessions offered in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
Which session formats does she offer?
Confirm current session options before booking, as formats were not specified in the biography.
How are session costs handled?
Cost varies with location, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What do I do to begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule your first session.
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