About Willow
Willow Whitehouse-Briggs is a licensed clinical professional counselor with 35 years of experience in Maine. She combines decades of clinical work with life experience to help people facing stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma, anger, and self-esteem concerns. She writes plainly and meets people where they are in life.
Willow has worked as a school psychologist and has explored movement-based practices such as Dance Movement Therapy and Authentic Movement. That background informs her sense that many experiences are held in the body as well as the mind.
Background and approach
She often invites attention to how physical sensations relate to feelings and memories. Her approach centers on listening without judgment and treating each person as the expert on their own life. She draws on client-centered ways of working to create a respectful, supportive space.
She also uses cognitive behavioral methods to help people notice unhelpful thought patterns and practice new responses. Willow attends to how attachment and connections shape relationships. She brings tools from attachment-based and Imago-informed ideas when relationship patterns are part of the concern.
Conversations about values and meaning can arise from an existential perspective when that fits a person's goals. She has worked with adults and teens and brings experience with a wide range of focus areas, including phobias, OCD, postpartum depression, first responder and veteran issues, end-of-life concerns, and prejudice-related stress.
Willow emphasizes self-compassion and steady steps toward change while tailoring the pace to each person.
Therapeutic approaches and online options that meet you where you are
Willow often blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral tools. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, respect, and helping people name their goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify thought and behavior patterns and practice small changes that reduce distress.She also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early connections shape current relationship patterns. That approach can be useful when fear of closeness, jealousy, or recurring relationship conflicts are part of the problem. Willow treats the selection of methods as a collaboration and will help clients figure out which approaches match their needs and preferences.
Online work is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversations, phone can be used when bandwidth is limited, live chat is helpful for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to try different formats until the best fit is found by the client and therapist.
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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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