Glen Briggs, LCSW

Glen Briggs is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with a Master of Social Work (MSW) from Syracuse University and 37 years of experience in community behavioral health. He has spent much of his career working in Buffalo, offering care to people facing a wide array of mental health concerns and often concurrent challenges such as addictions or physical health issues, and he has worked with individuals from diverse ethnic, geographic, and economic backgrounds.

His clinical experience spans mental health and addiction clinics as well as a co-occurring continuing day treatment program, where he has delivered individual therapy, couples and family therapy, group counseling, psycho-educational groups, and crisis phone support. Over decades of practice he has developed an eclectic, pragmatic approach that privileges solution-focused strategies to build problem-solving and coping skills, while drawing substantially from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). He actively seeks client feedback and collaborates with people to tailor methods to what will be most helpful for them.

Glen values a non-judgmental manner and often uses gentle humor to help people engage in the work. He emphasizes the importance of the therapeutic alliance - the cooperative relationship between therapist and client - and recommends focusing on how sessions are conducted and whether a therapist s communication style and values feel like a good fit. He is interested in online counseling as an additional way to reach people who might otherwise not pursue therapy.