About Willow
Willow Whitehouse-Briggs brings over 35 years of professional experience to her work in Maine. She holds an ME LCPC and has guided many people through stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, anger, and self-esteem struggles. She writes simply and directly about life’s challenges and meets people where they are.
Her background includes years as a school psychologist and hands-on training in movement-based approaches such as Dance Movement Therapy and Authentic Movement.
Background and approach
That experience shaped her belief that the body and emotions are linked, and it influences how she listens and responds in sessions. She pays attention to how tension and memory show up in the body as well as in words. Willow works with adults and teens, helping them name what’s hard and build on strengths they already have.
She uses practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy alongside client-centered listening to help people make changes that matter. Attachment-based ideas also inform how she thinks about relationships and trust. Her style is warm and respectful.
She treats each person as the expert on their own story and offers feedback, reflection, and tools when helpful. She emphasizes self-compassion and gradual, doable steps rather than quick fixes. Clients often come for help coping with grief, first responder stress, obsessive thoughts, postpartum mood changes, or difficulties tied to aging and loss.
Willow aims to support steady progress in everyday life and to strengthen people's ability to cope with future challenges.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early connections shape today's relationships and trust. It helps people who struggle with closeness, repeated patterns, or feelings of insecurity in relationships by identifying those patterns and building new ways of relating.Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding without judgment. The therapist follows the person's lead, reflecting back what they say so people feel heard and can explore their own solutions; this helps with self-esteem, stress, and making personal decisions.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) gives concrete tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, mood concerns, obsessive thinking, and for learning new coping skills that work in everyday life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, and together they will choose or blend methods to match the client's needs.
Online therapy here uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care flexible and accessible. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction when seeing nonverbal cues matters. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break or a tighter schedule. Live chat and messaging provide brief check-ins or ongoing written reflection when typing feels easier than talking. These options help people keep therapy consistent around family, work, and life demands.
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What this counselor 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