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Licensed Professional Counselor

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Whitney M. Whitman is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Professional Family Mediator. She has been providing mental health services in Alaska since 2002. Whitney received a Bachelor Degree 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 at 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 began her career as a performance artist and poet in New York City. Her artwork was consistently socially relevant, charged with the energy and belief that human beings harness the magical ability to create reality out of our imaginations. She felt her role as an artist was to assist others in engaging with their own creative process. She developed interactive performance pieces with her audience to address topics such as stress, fear, closure, balance, and freedom. It seemed a natural transition to bring her artistic ideas into the counseling arena.

After living all over the Eastern part of America, from Vermont to Tennessee, Whitney moved to Alaska in 2002. It is here that she has created a home with her family and built a thriving professional practice.

People choose to begin counseling for many reasons. Entering a relationship with a counselor is an important decision made with the hope and faith that we can feel better and learn to live happier, more balanced lives. Whitney believes that her role as a counselor is to assist you in reconnecting with strengths that you already possess, and to help you in developing new skills and techniques that empower you to live your dreams and meet your goals.

Whitney is an active and direct counselor. She will choose an intervention or therapeutic model as needed to address a particular client’s needs at a particular time. She will also create her own interventions for clients that are individually personalized. She works collaboratively with her clients to develop strategies for meeting their therapeutic goals and identifying barriers that may be preventing success.

Whitney specializes in working with adults on developing a better understanding and improved behavior for healthy relationships, self-worth, identity, parenting, and major life transitions. Whitney utilizes a family systems approach to helping her clients understand how their childhood experiences and narratives inform their present sense of self. Whitney also specializes in working with couples and families to facilitate stronger relationships, healthy rituals, and communication skills. Whitney is a divorce expert and provides counseling services for people who are grieving the end of a marriage and managing the stress of restructuring their family.

As a Professional Family Mediator, Whitney offers non-clinical services such as Divorce/Dissolution Mediation, Coparenting Facilitation, Parenting Coordination, Expert Testimony and Divorce/Coparenting Consultation. Whitney is an expert in child development in the context of high conflict divorce and coparenting. If you are interested in these services, please contact Whitney directly at wmwlpcllc@gmail.com and see her website www.whitneywhitman.com