Brett Wilcox
Thoughtful, experienced counselor for families
- Credentials
- LPC, LCMHC
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- Alaska, Utah
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Brett
Brett Wilcox is a Licensed Professional Counselor who uses practical, evidence-based methods to help families and parents facing hard moments. He combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing with a direct, down-to-earth style. Brett draws on 25 years of experience to guide people through stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and substance-related problems.
He works from Alaska and holds the credentials LPC and LCMHC. Brett focuses on breaking problems into manageable steps.
Background and approach
He helps clients spot unhelpful thoughts, try small changes, and notice the results. He also teaches simple mindfulness practices to reduce overwhelm and uses motivational interviewing to build readiness for change. He has extensive experience with family and relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, anger, and addiction.
He has led group work for substance use, domestic violence, and related issues, and he also enjoys working with couples. His background includes work with PTSD, depression, and interpersonal violence. Brett aims to reduce power imbalance in the room and treats people as the experts on their own lives.
He offers straightforward assignments between sessions when helpful, such as watching how certain memories or beliefs show up in daily life. These small tasks often speed progress. Sessions are provided in English and delivered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
He practices from Alaska and holds the license details AK LPC PCOP332 and UT LCMHC 335174-6004.
How therapeutic approaches shape online work
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce stress and anxiety. It gives practical tools families can use between sessions to see what helps and what does not.Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple paying-attention skills to calm strong feelings and decrease reactivity. These practices help people notice triggers and respond more clearly in family interactions and during life transitions.
Finding the right approach happens together. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods, and adjust based on what fits the family or parent. This collaborative process helps choose strategies that match needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Those options make it easier to fit sessions into busy family schedules, continue work while traveling in Alaska, or check in between meetings. Many people find that mixing live sessions with brief chat or text between appointments keeps momentum and helps turn small steps into lasting changes.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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
Next step
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