Priscilla Whitlock-Coates
Compassionate family-focused counseling
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed in
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Priscilla
Priscilla Whitlock-Coates is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on family concerns and parenting challenges. She works with people facing trauma, relationship strain, and life transitions. Her tone is direct and respectful, and she aims to make the first steps easier for worried parents and family members.
Priscilla brings three decades of counseling experience to her work. She uses practical conversation and tailored plans rather than one-size-fits-all approaches. Sessions are built around what a family or parent needs right now, with attention to safety, daily routines, and communication patterns.
Background and approach
Her background includes extensive work with trauma and abuse, and she draws on techniques designed for processing difficult memories and rebuilding trust. She also addresses issues like postpartum depression, adoption and foster care concerns, and blended family challenges. Veterans and armed forces issues are also listed among her experience.
Priscilla uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how relationships and early bonds affect current family patterns. She also incorporates Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, when trauma processing is helpful. Both methods are integrated into clear, step-by-step plans rather than abstract theory.
She is licensed in Arizona as an LPC, license number AZ LPC LPC-17755. Sessions are offered in English and are available through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Therapy uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How attachment work and EMDR translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current family patterns and communication. In practice this means talking through family roles, noticing recurring conflicts, and trying small behavior changes to build safer connections.Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is a structured way to work through distressing memories. The process helps reduce the intensity of traumatic memories so they interfere less with daily family life and parenting tasks.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your concerns, explain options, and try methods that fit your goals and comfort level. Plans are adjusted as progress unfolds so families feel involved in each step.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility for busy households. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when needed, while phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging let families connect around childcare or work schedules. These options can make it easier to keep momentum between sessions and to follow through on strategies discussed during meetings.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
EMDR
A structured protocol used with distressing memories, pairing recall with guided attention tasks. Some therapists adapt it for video sessions; whether that fits is worth asking about directly.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
Next step
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