Top Therapists in Alaska

Thomas Lytle

LPC-S, MAC, NCC, NCACII • Licensed Professional Counselor–Supervisor

Thomas Lytle is a Licensed Professional Counselor–Supervisor specializing in substance use disorders, trauma, and co-occurring mental health challenges. He uses evidence-based approaches to support resilience and recovery and has served the Alaska community since 2001.

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.

Katie Ogin

Katie Ogin works with teenagers and young adults using a client-centered approach grounded in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and mindfulness to challenge unhelpful thoughts and build resilience. She also supports those dealing with body image, eating concerns, and the effects of diet culture.

Alisha Sarginger

LMFT • Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

Alisha Sarginger, LMFT, is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist specializing in couples therapy—particularly healing from betrayals using the Gottman Method—and integrating DBT with couples. She also works with individuals, youth (8+), teens, and families on anxiety, depression, grief, and life transitions using CBT, narrative, and solution-focused approaches.

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.

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.

A'lise Bruns

LCSW • Licensed Clinical Social Worker

A’Lise Bruns is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who provides individual therapy for adults, specializing in maternal mental health. She supports women through preconception, pregnancy, and postpartum stages, combining clinical expertise with lived experience as a mother of five.

Katie Bell

LPC, BAS, ATR • Licensed Professional Counselor

Katie Kajdan Bell is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Registered Art Therapist with more than 20 years of experience. She works with clients ages 12 through adulthood, specializing in anxiety disorders, ADHD, and eating disorders, and offers individual therapy, workshops, groups, and supervision.

Krista Hobson

MSN, RN, FNP, PMHNP, ANCC • Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

Krista Hobson is a dual-certified Family Nurse Practitioner and Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner who provides mental health care for children, adolescents, and adults. She practices at Psychology Services of Alaska in Anchorage, AK.

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.

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.

Duncan Brooks

MS, LPC • Licensed Professional Counselor

Duncan Brooks, MS, LPC, is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps couples and families strengthen connections, resolve conflict, and build deeper emotional bonds. He specializes in Emotion-Focused Therapy, attachment-based approaches, and systems theory.

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.

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.

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.

Amanda Sousa

LICSW, MSW • Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker

Amanda Sousa is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker who provides trauma-informed therapy to adolescents and adults. She is trained in Internal Family Systems and draws on DBT, CBT, psychodynamic, and solution-focused approaches to address depression, anxiety, suicidality, personality disorders, and trauma.

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.

Keri Chandler

LPC, NCC • Licensed Professional Counselor

Keri Chandler is a Licensed Professional Counselor and National Certified Counselor who treats PTSD-related disorders, depression, anxiety, and adverse childhood experiences. She works with children, adolescents, adults, and couples using an eclectic, client-centered approach focused on trauma recovery, relationships, and parenting support.

Julie Tigner

Clinician

Julie Tigner is an LGBTQIA+‑affirming clinician who provides a safe, warm therapy space for children and teens. She specializes in Child‑Centered Play Therapy for ages 3–13 and uses an integrative, client‑centered and Jungian‑informed approach with teens, with additional training in EMDR, Brainspotting, and CPRT.

Damon Pemberton

LCSW, MSW • Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Damon Pemberton is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who provides therapy for adolescents and adults, specializing in anxiety, stress, depression, OCD, trauma, family discord, and relationship difficulties. He uses evidence-based, client-centered approaches to tailor care and equip clients with practical tools and education.