About Willow
Willow Whitehouse-Briggs is a Maine-licensed clinical professional counselor with 35 years of experience. She draws on a long career to help people facing stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, anger, and self-esteem concerns. Her style balances practical guidance with a respectful, listening stance.
She has spent many years working in schools and in clinical settings. Those roles shaped how she notices patterns in behavior and coping. Willow also studied movement approaches such as Dance Movement Therapy and Authentic Movement and often pays attention to how the body holds experience.
How Willow works
Willow believes people know their own stories and brings a collaborative attitude to sessions. She helps clients identify strengths, set realistic goals, and try actions that can ease daily stress. Progress is usually gradual and practical changes are encouraged.
Her work incorporates attachment-based ideas and client-centered listening to build safety and trust. She also uses cognitive behavioral tools to address unhelpful thoughts and habits. Sessions emphasize self-compassion and practical skills alongside exploration of deeper meaning.
Willow supports people coping with a wide range of additional concerns, including grief around hospice and end-of-life, first responder and veteran issues, OCD and phobias, postpartum depression, prejudice and discrimination, and the effects of disasters. She aims to meet each person where they are and help them move toward steadier days.
Willow lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Willow works with
The areas below are the ones Willow selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- First responder issues
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Jealousy
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 35 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Maine |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How therapeutic approaches work online
Willow uses attachment-based work to help people understand how early connections shape current relationships. That approach focuses on patterns of closeness, trust, and communication and can help with relationship stress and self-worth issues.She also uses client-centered methods which center the person's own experience. In those sessions the therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and follows the client's pace so people feel understood and able to explore what matters to them.
Cognitive behavioral techniques are part of her toolkit too and help people notice and change thoughts and behaviors that maintain anxiety or low mood. Those are practical exercises you can try between sessions to see small improvements.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Willow will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. She adapts methods over time so the work stays relevant and realistic.
Online therapy gives flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text messaging is useful for brief reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while still using evidence-informed approaches.
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