Willow Whitehouse-Briggs, LCPC

Willow Whitehouse-Briggs is a Maine licensed clinical professional counselor with more than 35 years of experience. She speaks plainly about life's hard moments and helps people take practical steps toward change. Willow has worked with stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, anger, and self-esteem struggles.

Her background includes long work as a school psychologist and years helping adults and teens. She has also studied movement approaches such as Dance Movement Therapy and Authentic Movement. That experience shapes how she notices the ways emotions can show up in the body.

Willow sees clients as the experts on their own lives. She aims to offer steady support while people figure out what matters most to them. Sessions focus on building self-compassion, identifying strengths, and creating small, doable changes.

Therapy draws on a mix of approaches to match what each person needs. Willow uses attachment ideas to look at how relationships shaped patterns, client-centered skills to keep the work grounded in the client's goals, and cognitive behavioral techniques to address thoughts and behaviors that get in the way.

Her practice also attends to later-life concerns and loss, first responder and veteran issues, obsessive or compulsive patterns, postpartum depression, prejudice and discrimination, and jealousy. Willow aims to help people move from feeling stuck toward clearer choices and steadier days.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online work

Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. In practice this means noticing how trust, closeness, and fear of loss show up in thoughts and behavior and gently experimenting with new ways of relating. Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's goals and pace, so sessions follow what the client wants to talk about and build on their strengths. Cognitive behavioral techniques help identify unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes that can reduce anxiety or mood symptoms.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Willow will collaborate with each person to pick methods that fit their goals and preferences. She often blends approaches so the work matches what comes up from week to week.

Session formats are not specified in the biographical summary, so please confirm current session options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, such as allowing a check-in during a lunch break or avoiding travel time. They also let people use different ways of working - voice only for a shorter check-in, or video when a deeper conversation is helpful. Licensed professionals can adapt interactive exercises and CBT-style homework to an online setting so the work continues between sessions.