Willow Whitehouse-Briggs, LCPC

Willow Whitehouse-Briggs is a licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) in Maine with 35 years of experience. She draws on a long career that includes school psychology and work with movement-based therapies. Her approach recognizes how life events affect thoughts, feelings, and the body. Willow sees stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, anger, and self-esteem concerns as common reasons people seek help. She combines talk and awareness of bodily experience to help people make changes. Sessions tend to focus on practical steps and clearer thinking, along with noticing how the body responds to feeling states. Her background includes time as a school psychologist and experience with Dance Movement Therapy and Authentic Movement. That history informs how she listens for patterns held in posture, breath, and movement as well as in words. She believes those connections can point to useful ways to relieve distress. Willow centers the person in the room. She treats clients as the expert on their own story and looks for existing strengths to build on. She encourages self-compassion and practical strategies that can be used between sessions. People who choose her often want a mix of thinking-focused work and attention to body awareness. She offers steady, respectful support while helping clients try new ways of coping. Her goal is to help people move toward a more satisfying, manageable life.

How Willow’s approaches translate to online work

Willow often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and build new coping skills. CBT focuses on clear steps you can practice between sessions and helps with anxiety, stress, obsessive thoughts, and low mood.

She also uses Attachment-Based and Client-Centered ideas to shape the relationship in sessions. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns affect current trust and connection, which can help with relationship worries and insecurity. Client-centered work means the therapist follows the client's lead and emphasizes listening, respect, and the client's own goals.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Willow will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then shape sessions to match. She aims to combine thinking-focused tools with attention to how the body shows stress, so the plan may include both skill practice and awareness exercises.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which let people fit therapy into busy lives. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and demonstrations, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is low, live chat offers a shorter check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it simpler to keep continuity and try different communication styles as therapy progresses.