Brett Wilcox , LPC, LCMHC

Brett Wilcox is a licensed counselor in Alaska with 25 years of experience helping people address trauma, addictions, mood disorders, and relationship challenges. He holds the credentials LPC and LCMHC - Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor - and has spent decades working with individuals, couples, teens, and adults in both individual and group settings. His clinical work has included PTSD, sexual abuse, depression, anxiety, family and relationship difficulties, interpersonal violence, and substance abuse, and he has extensive experience facilitating groups focused on substance misuse, domestic violence, and sex offending.

Brett’s preferred model is Coherence Therapy, an experiential and empathic approach designed to surface and transform the unconscious emotional constructs that sustain unwanted symptoms. He frames Coherence Therapy as a process that leverages memory reconsolidation so that new therapeutic experiences can replace entrenched beliefs, behaviors, and emotional patterns. Rather than trying to correct or argue with distressing thoughts and feelings, this approach helps clients access the underlying meanings that give those reactions their power, enabling substantial change often within a relatively small number of sessions.

His counseling style centers on client autonomy and agency. He treats clients as the experts on their own lives and works to reduce the usual power differential in therapy by offering empathy and respectful collaboration instead of imposed interpretations. When homework is used, it typically asks clients to hold in awareness the constructs that emerged during sessions, a simple practice that often contributes to natural resolution of longstanding problems.

People who have had lengthy, unsatisfactory experiences with other therapists have found meaningful shifts with Brett. Those who resonate with an experiential, root-focused way of working may find his methods especially well suited to addressing self-esteem, relationship difficulties, addictions, and core emotional patterns.

Therapeutic approaches and online care

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a goal-oriented method that helps clients identify unhelpful thinking patterns and learn practical skills to change behaviors and emotional responses. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress-related concerns. Mindfulness Therapy teaches moment-to-moment awareness and nonjudgmental observation of thoughts and feelings, which can reduce reactivity and improve emotional regulation for issues like anxiety, trauma aftereffects, and life stress. Motivational Interviewing focuses on building motivation and resolving ambivalence about change by exploring personal values and goals - a useful fit for substance use, behavioral change, and ambivalence around relationships or recovery.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the collaborative process. A licensed professional will work with each person to assess needs, goals, and preferences, tailoring methods or combining approaches so the work fits the client rather than forcing a single model. The therapist and client decide together what feels most helpful as progress unfolds.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging allow care to fit into busy schedules and reach people across distances. These options make it easier to maintain consistency, access support during life transitions, and continue work between in-person visits, while allowing therapists and clients to focus on effective treatment and meaningful change.