Brett Wilcox, LPC, LCMHC

Brett Wilcox is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) practicing in Alaska with 25 years of experience. He works with adults on stress, anxiety, relationship problems, trauma and abuse, anger, low self-esteem, addictions, family concerns, depression, and coping with life changes.

He uses approaches including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing to address behaviors and thinking patterns. He also has long experience in substance abuse and interpersonal violence work, and has facilitated group counseling for teens and adults focused on substance abuse, domestic violence, and sex offending.

Brett describes a counseling stance that centers a client's autonomy and agency. He treats people as the experts in their own lives and aims to reduce the usual power gap that can happen in therapy. Sessions often focus on helping clients identify the underlying thoughts and feelings that keep them stuck rather than simply correcting surface behaviors.

When homework is used, it is usually a short, practical task to hold emerging ideas or feelings in mind between sessions. That kind of follow-through can help shifts continue after a meeting ends. He has had clients who found meaningful change after relatively brief work together.

He is comfortable addressing issues around addiction, relationship patterns, attachment and codependency-related concerns, and questions of purpose and fatherhood. Sessions are conducted in English, and he practices in Alaska as noted by his credentials.

How Brett uses therapeutic approaches in online sessions