Top Therapists in Alaska

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.

Esther Hopkin

LCSW • Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Esther Hopkin, LCSW, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who provides outpatient therapy to clients ages 12 and up, emphasizing strengths-based care and strong therapeutic relationships. She draws on training in CBT, DBT, EMDR, and Solution-Focused Therapy and has experience in crisis, residential adolescent, and emergency settings.

Jennifer Dotur

MS • Pre-licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor

Jennifer Dotur, MS is a pre-licensed clinical mental health counselor who works with teens, adults, couples, and neurodivergent individuals, specializing in anxiety, trauma, grief, depression, PTSD, and relationship challenges. She integrates evidence-based approaches like EMDR, IFS, CBT, ACT, somatic, and experiential therapies, and offers Christian counseling when aligned with client values.

Lucas Rowley

LPC, MA • Licensed Professional Counselor

Lucas Rowley is a Licensed Professional Counselor who specializes in art therapy, integrating expressive modalities with CBT and Motivational Interviewing within a humanistic framework. He helps clients access nonverbal expression, build resilience, and pursue personal growth.

Mary Kuepper

LPC, LPC-S • Licensed Professional Counselor-Supervisor

Mary Kuepper is a Licensed Professional Counselor-Supervisor in Alaska who provides community-based mental health care for children, teens, families, and maternal mental health. She uses attachment‑based, brain‑informed, and trauma‑informed approaches, with training in EMDR and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, to support emotional regulation and healthy connection.

Misti Musgrave

LCSW, EMDR-C • Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Misti Musgrave is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and EMDR-certified therapist who specializes in grief and loss, PTSD, trauma, and depression. She helps clients identify root causes of distress and supports them toward healing and wholeness.

Amber Warden

Amber Warden earned master's training in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and a master's in yoga therapy, integrating mind–body practices to help clients build healthier relationships with food, body acceptance, and supportive therapeutic connections.

Autumn Cagle

LPC, NCC, EMDR • Licensed Professional Counselor

Autumn Cagle is a Licensed Professional Counselor who provides trauma-informed therapy to adolescents, adults, and couples. She specializes in EMDR, Internal Family Systems, Emotionally Focused Therapy, and somatic approaches for trauma, addiction, mood concerns, anxiety, and relational challenges.

David Barringer

LMFT • Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

David Barringer is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who works with individuals, couples, and families ages five and up. He specializes in anxiety, depression, ADHD, trauma responses, grief, and substance‑use recovery using systemic, evidence‑based approaches including CBT, EFT, the Gottman Method, and Relational Life Therapy.

Brittany Oaks

LPC-S, PMHC, MS • Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor

Brittany Oaks is a Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor who specializes in crisis, trauma, and perinatal mental health. She uses IFS, CBT, DBT, and motivational interviewing to provide compassionate, nonjudgmental support through conception, pregnancy, and postpartum.

Brittany Bertrand

LPC, CAGCS, CDC II • Licensed Professional Counselor

Brittany Bertrand, LPC, is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Anchorage with over a decade of experience. She specializes in grief and loss, chemical dependency, life transitions, and supporting parents of children with special needs, using a humanistic, person-centered approach integrated with DBT and CBT.

Olya Clem

LPC • Licensed Professional Counselor

Olya Clem is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Alaska with 17 years of mental health experience, specializing in trauma recovery, anxiety, and emotional overwhelm. She integrates Walk and Talk Therapy, Brainspotting, EMDR, Internal Family Systems, CBT, and motivational interviewing, providing culturally responsive, trauma-informed care for Alaska Native and American Indian communities.

Dara Harrel

LPC-S • Licensed Professional Counselor (Supervisor)

Dara Harrel is an LPC-S who provides couples counseling and individual therapy, using Gottman Method, IFS, Brainspotting, CBT, and DBT to help clients strengthen relationships, navigate life transitions, and improve communication.

Michael DeMolina

Psychotherapist

Dr. Michael DeMolina is a psychotherapist with more than 30 years of experience. He integrates CBT, mindfulness, Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), and neuroscience to provide accessible, trauma-informed therapy and trainings in addiction, communication, and Neuro-Linguistics.

Abegail Millard

PsyD • Licensed Clinical Psychologist

Dr. Abegail Millard, PsyD, is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist providing individual therapy for adults and adolescents. She specializes in trauma (including PTSD and military sexual trauma), complex grief, and life transitions, and works with Veterans, first responders, and Active Duty personnel using EMDR and evidence-based methods like CBT, DBT, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing.

Maria Belozertseva

LPC • Licensed Professional Counselor

Maria Belozertseva is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Alaska who provides individual therapy to adults and teens 16+, specializing in trauma, grief and loss, perinatal mental health, disordered eating, and major life transitions. She uses a body-centered, integrative approach drawing from somatic therapy, Internal Family Systems, mindfulness, yoga, CBT, DBT, and solution-focused methods to support emotional regulation and resilience.

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.

Judith Lindenfelser

Adult Psychiatric-Mental Health Clinical Nurse Specialist

Judith Lindenfelser is a board-certified Adult Psychiatric-Mental Health Clinical Nurse Specialist who integrates talk therapy and medication management to address anxiety, mood, and cognitive concerns. She employs psychoanalytic, family systems, and cognitive behavioral approaches and has experience in inpatient, outpatient, private practice, and academic settings.

Seith Bricklin

MBA • Licensed Clinical Psychologist

Dr. Seth Bricklin is a licensed clinical psychologist at Psychology Services of Alaska who provides evidence-based care for anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship challenges, chronic pain, and substance abuse using psychodynamic, CBT, client-centered, and mindfulness approaches.

Whitney Whitman

LPC, Professional Family Mediator • Licensed Professional Counselor

Whitney M. Whitman is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Professional Family Mediator who directs Court Involved Therapies at Coastal Wellness and Counseling. She provides counseling and mediation to adults, couples, and families, specializing in divorce, coparenting, parenting coordination, and major life transitions using a family systems approach.