About Brett
Brett Wilcox is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Alaska with 25 years of experience. He focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship problems, trauma and addictions. His approach is straightforward and practical, with an emphasis on empowering people to make changes that fit their lives.
Brett draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing to help clients notice unhelpful patterns and try different ways of thinking and acting.
Background and approach
Sessions involve clear steps, practice between meetings, and collaborative goal setting. He aims to keep work grounded and usable for day-to-day life. He has long experience addressing family problems, anger, self-esteem, and issues tied to substance use.
He also works with concerns such as abandonment, attachment issues, caregiving stress, codependency, and questions about life purpose and fatherhood. Brett has facilitated group work in the past and brings that practical background into individual sessions. Brett sees therapy as a cooperative process.
He treats people as the experts in their own lives and focuses on building skills they can use outside sessions. Between-session tasks are often simple reminders or small practices that help new ways of thinking settle in. People who want clear tools, honest feedback, and steady support may find his style helpful.
He works in English and holds licenses as LPC and LCMHC in the states listed for his practice.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Many of his sessions use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which helps people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through practical exercises and small experiments. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems.He also uses Mindfulness Therapy to teach straightforward attention and breathing practices that reduce reactivity and improve emotional balance. These skills can help with anger, stress, and coping during life changes.
Motivational Interviewing is part of his toolkit for people facing ambivalence about change. It focuses on the person's own goals and reasons to change, which can be especially helpful for addictions and behavior change.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust as needed so work stays relevant and doable.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text let people fit short sessions into busy days and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Guilt and shame
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Alaska, Utah
- Languages
- English