Whitney M. Whitman, LPC-S

Director of Court Involved Therapies
Licensed Professional Counselor-Supervisor

Pronouns She/Her

Whitney M. Whitman is a Licensed Professional Counselor – Supervisor and Professional Family Mediator. She has been providing mental health services in Alaska since 2002. Whitney received a Bachelor of Arts in Writing, Literature and Art Education from The New School for Social Research in New York City (now New School University), a Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Art from Goddard College in Vermont, and a Master of Science in Counseling Psychology from Alaska Pacific University.

In addition to the private practice she began in 2008, Whitney has also worked in adolescent residential treatment environments and in crisis intervention at Providence Alaska Medical Center. From 2013-2016, Whitney was an Adjunct Professor in Group Therapy for the Master of Science in Counseling Psychology program at Alaska Pacific University. 

Whitney developed CWC’s Family Therapy for Parent-Child Contact Problems program, a specialized therapeutic approach for families experiencing disrupted parent-child relationships in the context of separation, divorce, and high-conflict family dynamics. She brings advanced training and expertise to her work with court-involved families, as she is trained in divorce mediation, coparenting facilitation, and Parenting Coordination. 

As the Director of Court-Involved Therapies, Whitney offers non-clinical services that support families with challenging coparenting relationships and family law court involvement. If you, your child/ren and/or family is receiving counseling services at CWC, Whitney may be your point of contact. She provides care coordination by consulting with the administrative staff, applying the family’s court orders to CWC policies and procedures, developing systems for communication with other professionals and the court system, and supervising the treatment team of Clinicians at CWC who work with court-involved clients. 

Whitney provides supervision and consultation on applying the best practice guidelines that the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts has identified for Court-Involved Therapies. Whitney is dedicated to providing continuing education in the community for family law and mental health professionals on the impacts of high-conflict divorce on family systems and the importance of empirically-based, ethical psychotherapeutic interventions.