About Guilford
Guilford Prickette is a licensed professional counselor with 20 years of experience based in Alaska. He helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, grief, and major life changes. People come for short-term coaching or longer-term support to regain steadiness and practical coping skills.
Guilford keeps sessions straightforward and focused on the client’s goals. He listens first to understand each person’s situation and then works together on steps that fit day-to-day life.
Background and approach
Those steps can include managing panic attacks, reducing obsessive thoughts, or building routines that ease somatic symptoms. He offers an affirming approach for people navigating gender questions, neurodiversity such as autism and Asperger syndrome, and experiences of prejudice or discrimination.
Guilford pays attention to cultural background and how it shapes stress and relationships, and he aims to make therapy a place where identity matters. His style draws on client-centered work that centers the person’s own strengths. He also uses motivational interviewing to help people find reasons to change, and solution-focused techniques to set clear, achievable goals.
These methods combine to create practical plans rather than long lists of theory. Sessions may include talk, problem-solving, and short homework tasks to try between meetings. Guilford aims to help people notice small shifts that add up to real improvement in daily life.
How these approaches work in online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's own goals and experiences, giving them time to be heard and to lead the pace of change; it helps when someone needs understanding and a steady, respectful listener. Motivational interviewing is a conversational method that helps a person clarify what they want to change and find their own reasons to move forward; it is useful for creating momentum around behavior change and decision points.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Guilford will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they review what helps most and adjust the approach as progress is made, keeping the plan practical and goal oriented.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video lets people read facial cues and hold deeper conversations, phone can work better when bandwidth is low, live chat is useful for short check-ins and quick coping strategies, and text messaging supports ongoing encouragement and brief coaching between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Gender dysphoria
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Somatization
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Alaska
- Languages
- English
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