Philip A. Bower, LICSW, is a licensed clinical social worker offering affirming, whole-person therapy for adults navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, burnout, identity development, shame, and major life transitions. He is licensed in Massachusetts, Maine, and Washington and provides telehealth therapy with a grounded, collaborative, and trauma-informed approach.

Philip’s clinical work is especially focused on supporting LGBTQIA+ adults, veterans, and people who have spent much of their lives adapting, performing, or editing themselves to fit the expectations of others. His practice is sex-positive, kink-affirming, poly/ENM-affirming, and rooted in respect for each client’s lived experience.

His therapeutic style draws from acceptance and commitment therapy, compassion-focused therapy, narrative therapy, strengths-based practice, and trauma-informed care. Philip works with clients to better understand the stories, roles, relationships, and environments that have shaped them while helping them build more room for honesty, self-trust, emotional flexibility, and meaningful change.

Philip brings experience across clinical, community, veteran, and LGBTQIA+-affirming care settings. He is also continuing advanced study in Behavioral Health Leadership with a focus on mental health leadership, organizational culture, and the ways therapeutic environments can support authenticity, belonging, and healing.