About Willow
Willow Whitehouse-Briggs is a Maine licensed clinical professional counselor with 35 years of experience. She draws on a long career that includes work in schools and varied clinical settings. Willow approaches therapy with warmth and practical focus, helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma, relationship strain, anger, and low self-esteem.
She emphasizes that clients are the experts in their own lives. Sessions aim to build on strengths and to create small, doable steps toward feeling better.
Background and approach
Willow describes therapy as a partnership where she offers close listening, gentle reflection, and concrete tools to try between meetings. Her background includes time as a school psychologist and hands-on work with dance movement and authentic movement approaches. That experience shapes how she pays attention to the ways emotions show up in the body as well as in thoughts and behaviors.
Clients can expect an approach that notices both feelings and physical responses. Willow blends several counseling ideas to meet practical concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques help people change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
Client-centered and attachment-based ideas create a respectful, accepting atmosphere. She also draws on existential and relationship-focused methods when people want to look at meaning, values, and connection. Willow works with adults on issues like panic, phobias, obsessions, postpartum depression, grief related to hospice and end-of-life care, and the stress faced by first responders and veterans.
Her goal is to support people in finding more self-compassion, steadier moods, and clearer next steps.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Willow uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT offers clear exercises and small experiments that transfer well to video or phone sessions, and it can help with anxiety, phobias, and obsessive patterns.She also uses client-centered therapy which centers the person's experience and pace. That approach focuses on listening, empathy, and supporting a person to find their own answers, whether conversations happen by text, chat, phone, or video.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Willow will talk with clients about their goals, preferences, and daily demands, and then recommend ways of working that feel most useful. That collaborative decision can change over time as needs shift.
Online formats give practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and mirrors in real time. Phone sessions work when bandwidth or camera use is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for short check-ins, quick coping strategies, or when someone needs a check between longer sessions. These options help make therapy fit into busy lives and varied schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Maine
- Languages
- English
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