Top Therapists in Alaska

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.

Ramzi Nassar

MD • Psychiatrist

Ramzi Nassar, MD, is a board-certified general adult psychiatrist who provides psychiatric care for adults. He founded a private practice in 2009 and is a founding member of Alliance Behavioral Medicine in Anchorage.

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.

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.

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.

Jade Hartley

RDN • Registered Dietitian Nutritionist

Jade Hartley is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist who uses an all-foods-fit approach and principles of intuitive eating to help clients heal their relationships with food and body. She creates an inclusive, collaborative space to uncover root issues and support sustainable behavior change.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Josie Heyano

LMSW, MSW • Licensed Master Social Worker

Josie Heyano is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) providing clinical mental health services, systems navigation, and advocacy for youth experiencing homelessness, exploitation, and human trafficking in Alaska. Her humanistic, person-centered practice integrates culture, ceremony, community, and Somatic Experiencing training to support clients' healing.

Sonya Smith

LPC, CCDC • Licensed Professional Counselor

Sonya Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor who supports individuals with severe mental illness, intellectual and developmental disabilities, PTSD, and substance use. She uses evidence-based approaches (CBT, DBT, Motivational Interviewing, CPT) and a strength-based, individualized style.

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.

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.

Uliana Fleener

LPC • Licensed Professional Counselor

Uliana Fleener is a Licensed Professional Counselor who provides trauma-informed, humanistic therapy for adults coping with anxiety, depression, trauma, codependency, attachment issues, life transitions, and relationship challenges. She specializes in supporting survivors of narcissistic abuse and integrates Brainspotting, IFS, CBT, DBT, solution-focused techniques, and mindfulness-based practices.

Maureen Young

LCSW, MSW • Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Maureen R Young is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who provides outpatient individual, family, and group therapy to adolescents, families, and adults, specializing in complex, high-acuity needs such as trauma, mood disorders, self-harm, substance use, and gender dysphoria. She has extensive experience in crisis management, interdisciplinary collaboration, and long-term adolescent residential treatment.