Director of Court Involved Therapies
Licensed Professional Counselor

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’s 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 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 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.

Whitney’s career transitioned from providing psychotherapeutic services to working with court-involved families as a Divorce/Dissolution Mediator, Coparenting Facilitator, Parenting Coordinator, Divorce/Coparenting Consultant and Expert Witness. She specializes in child development in the context of two-home families, parenting planning, high conflict divorce and coparenting. Whitney also specializes in Family Therapy for Parent-Child Contact Problems and is honored to have developed a program at Coastal Wellness & Counseling (CWC) that supports children who are struggling due to the impact of high-conflict divorce on their relational growth and development. 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 and ethical psychotherapeutic interventions. 

As the Director of Court-Involved Therapies, Whitney offers non-clinical services that support families with challenging coparenting relationships and high-conflict divorce dynamics. At CWC we maintain professional ethics in line with the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts’ Guidelines for Court-Involved Therapies. 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 managing the family’s appointment schedule, 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. If the therapy you, your child, and/or your family is receiving was court-ordered, Whitney will assure that the psychotherapeutic services meet the court’s orders while maintaining the ethics of the mental health profession.