Top Therapists in Alaska
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Lauryn Pealatere
MS, LPC • Licensed Professional Counselor
Lauryn Pealatere, MS, LPC is a Licensed Professional Counselor who provides therapy for children and teens ages 4–16. She specializes in play therapy and EMDR to help kids build resilience and strengthen family connections.
Holly Hoff
Licensed Professional Counselor
Holly Hoff is a Licensed Professional Counselor and owner of Olive Tree Counseling. She offers individual counseling for adolescents and adults, focusing on personal growth, healing, and integrating faith with compassionate, respectful care.
John Harpole
MA, LPC • Licensed Professional Counselor
John Harpole is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Alaska and Missouri. He provides psychodynamic, CBT, narrative, and solution-focused therapies to individuals, couples, and families, with experience in multicultural issues, crisis response, and psychoeducational assessment.
Megan Coniam
M.Ed. • Pre-licensed Clinician
Megan Coniam, M.Ed., is a pre-licensed clinician who provides trauma-informed counseling for clients of all ages, specializing in trauma, depression, and anxiety. With 12 years of teaching experience, she has a particular passion for supporting children and uses collaborative, goal-focused strategies tailored to each client's needs.
Claire Swanson
MS
Claire Swanson holds a Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and uses a humanistic, psychodynamic approach to help clients increase self-awareness and understand internal patterns. She specializes in supporting individuals with eating disorders, emphasizing self-compassion and attention to the body, mind, and spirit.
Paris Taylor
LCSW • Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Paris Taylor is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who offers warm, empathetic therapy for adults (18+) and couples, specializing in anxiety, trauma, life transitions, and identity work. She emphasizes nature-based healing, serves BIPOC communities, and brings lived understanding of military family life.
Ashley Barrera
LMFT-S • Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Ashley M. Barrera is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT-S) and clinical supervisor who founded Coastal Wellness and Counseling. She provides therapy for individuals, couples, and families, specializing in couples and family therapy using Relational Life Therapy, the Gottman Method, and Internal Family Systems.
Desiree Niederer
LPC • Licensed Professional Counselor
Desiree Niederer is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 20 years of mental health experience, specializing in higher-risk teens and young adults. She focuses on trauma recovery, dual diagnosis and substance use, crisis intervention, and family/marital adjustments.
Barb Kolb
MS, LPC • Licensed Professional Counselor
Barb Kolb is a Licensed Professional Counselor who supports children, adolescents, and adults coping with depression, anxiety, trauma, and life stressors. She specializes in play therapy for children and integrates CBT and a family systems perspective, using modalities like EMDR and IFS to tailor care to each client.
Kathie Gillet
Dr. • Executive Director
Dr. Kathie Gillet is Executive Director at Wisdom Traditions, focusing on integrated care models, organizational development, and professional team training. She emphasizes culturally relevant, trauma-informed mental health, addiction recovery, and trauma healing for Alaska communities.
Lisa Mrzena
APRN • Advanced Practice Registered Nurse
Lisa Mrzena is an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) providing medication management and therapy in private practice. She treats trauma, addiction, and a broad range of mental health concerns, drawing on experience in hospitals, community clinics, and rural settings.
Mary Cavalier
LPC, Dr. • Licensed Professional Counselor
Mary Cavalier is a Licensed Professional Counselor who applies a holistic health-psychology approach to help adults with grief, sexual concerns, LGBTQIA2S+ issues, caregiver stress, post-ICU syndrome, chronic illness (including cancer and Long Covid), and healthcare-provider trauma and burnout.
Erika McGough
LPC • Licensed Professional Counselor
Erika McGough is a Licensed Professional Counselor serving Alaska and Colorado who specializes in maternal mental health, postpartum support, early parenting, anxiety, depression, and relational stressors. She also works with children and teens using a holistic, person-centered approach drawing on CBT, DBT, Brainspotting, motivational interviewing, and attachment-informed practices.
Kathleen Lochmann
MA • Professional Counselor
Kathleen Lochmann is a professional counselor (MA) who provides holistic therapy to adolescents, adults, and couples, addressing depression, anxiety, trauma, relationship concerns, and life transitions. She integrates modalities such as Existential Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, DBT, Emotion-Focused and Narrative therapies, and offers faith-based interventions when desired.
Muranda Griggs
LPC, MAC, MS • Licensed Professional Counselor
Muranda Griggs is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Master Addictions Counselor who specializes in trauma-informed work with children and adolescents. She helps clients with anxiety, depression, adjustment and school-related challenges, supports parents, and uses client-centered, evidence-based approaches including CBT, EMDR, TI-EAT, and family and narrative therapies.
Sayaka Maas
MS, LPC, CMAC • Licensed Professional Counselor
Sayaka Maas is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Certified Master Addiction Counselor who supports adults with trauma, PTSD, anxiety, dissociation, mood and eating disorders, substance use, grief, chronic pain, and major life transitions. She integrates EMDR, Brainspotting, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Emotional Freedom Technique, and parts work to tailor individualized care.
Melissa O'Neil
LPC, CEDS-A, PhD • Licensed Professional Counselor
Melissa O'Neil is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Certified Eating Disorders Specialist–Approved Supervisor who provides remote counseling to Alaskans. She specializes in supporting individuals and families experiencing eating disorders and serves as Clinical Faculty and a supervisor for clinicians pursuing CEDS credentials.
Melissa Wentzel
MEd, LPC • Licensed Professional Counselor
Melissa Wentzel is a Licensed Professional Counselor who provides counseling for individuals across the lifespan, as well as couples and families. She specializes in trauma, eating disorder care, women’s healthcare, LGBTQ2+ support, and working with neurodiverse children and adolescents, emphasizing self-acceptance and empowerment.
Larry Williams
LPC, MS • Licensed Professional Counselor
Larry Williams is a Licensed Professional Counselor with over 20 years of experience treating trauma, substance use, co-occurring disorders, and justice-involved clients. He specializes in supporting children and teens with autism, depression, anxiety, and mood disorders and works with families to build healthier dynamics.
Krista Pemberton
LCSW, MSW • Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Krista Ann Pemberton is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who provides individual, family, and group therapy in medical and private-practice settings. She treats grief, depression, anxiety, PTSD, autism spectrum disorder, family violence, infertility, and chronic illness using evidence-based methods such as CBT, DBT, EMDR, and psychodynamic therapy.
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