Willow Whitehouse-Briggs, LCPC

Willow Whitehouse-Briggs is a Maine-based licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) with more than 35 years of experience. She has worked in schools and clinical settings and brings long-term clinical experience to common life concerns like stress, anxiety, relationship problems, trauma, and anger. She emphasizes practical support and clear listening to help people take the next steps in their lives.

Willow draws on a mix of talk-based and body-aware approaches. Her background includes school psychology and work with dance movement and authentic movement, so she pays attention to how the body holds experience as well as what words reveal. She views clients as experts on their own stories and aims to amplify strengths already present.

Sessions focus on building self-compassion and practical strategies to cope with upsetting feelings. Willow uses approaches that help people notice patterns in relationships, change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and reconnect with meaning and values. She also supports clients facing aging and geriatric issues and end-of-life concerns.

Over decades of practice she has worked with teens and adults and with a wide range of concerns from obsessive or phobic symptoms to grief and first responder issues. Her style is steady and respectful, helping people name what matters and practice small changes that add up.

People who meet with Willow will find straightforward guidance, an emphasis on the whole person, and encouragement to try new ways of coping. To begin, clients use the site Start Therapy flow to match and schedule according to availability.

How her approaches translate to online care

Willow commonly draws on Client-Centered Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening, acceptance, and supporting a person to find their own path. It helps people who need a steady, nonjudgmental space to talk through hurts and decisions.

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and helps people understand how early bonds shape current reactions. It can be useful for relationship concerns, anxiety tied to closeness, and trust issues. CBT looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety, change unhelpful habits, and manage anger.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Willow works with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, values, and comfort. She adjusts techniques over time so sessions match what is actually helping.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm current session options before booking. This profile does not list specific formats, so ask about what is available when you schedule. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into busy days, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. Therapists can also adapt body-aware and talk-based work to an online setting so you can practice skills and reflect on patterns from wherever you are.