Willow Whitehouse-Briggs, LCPC

Willow Whitehouse-Briggs is an LCPC (Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor) based in Maine with 35 years of clinical experience. She blends long experience with a lived perspective, drawing on decades of work alongside people facing common life difficulties. Her practice pays close attention to thoughts and everyday habits that shape how people cope with stress, anxiety, anger, relationships, and self-esteem.

She has worked with teens and adults and spent many years as a school psychologist. That background shapes how she listens and responds to practical problems in daily life. She also studied Dance Movement Therapy and Authentic Movement, and often notices how experiences are held in the body as well as the mind.

In sessions she treats clients as experts in their own lives and focuses on strengths people already have. She aims to help clients build self-compassion and clearer habits of thinking and acting. Conversations are direct and grounded, with attention to small, usable changes that can reduce distress.

Her approach draws on Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy among other methods. She uses these frameworks to help people recognize unhelpful patterns, shift thinking and behavior, and improve relationships and emotional regulation.

Willow welcomes questions about whether her style fits a person’s needs. Prospective clients can expect a calm, steady presence and a practical focus on steps they can try between sessions.

How her approaches translate to online work

Willow commonly draws on Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and can help with relationship struggles and trust issues. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding a person’s experience and offering a nonjudgmental space to talk through problems. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and build new habits of thinking and behaving to reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Willow listens to a person’s goals and preferences and then suggests which methods might fit best. She treats therapy as a collaborative process where the client’s experience guides decisions about what to try next.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into everyday life by removing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins when needed, or making it simpler to schedule sessions around work or caregiving. Many people find that talking through thoughts and practicing new habits remotely still leads to useful changes when paired with clear homework and follow-up between meetings.