About Alice
Alice Bigelow is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor working in Illinois. She brings five years of clinical experience and a calm, straightforward approach. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or low self-esteem.
Alice also supports people facing LGBTQ concerns and those coping with trauma and OCD. Alice believes the client is the expert on their own life. She helps people notice their strengths and use those strengths to face hard moments.
Background and approach
Sessions are practical and down-to-earth, with clear steps people can try between meetings. She aims to make the first steps feel achievable and steady rather than overwhelming. In sessions she listens for patterns that keep problems stuck and offers ways to shift them.
That can mean practicing new coping skills, breaking tasks into smaller steps, or learning to handle intrusive thoughts. She works at a pace the client can manage and checks in about what is working. Alice has particular experience with obsessive thoughts and compulsions, and with gender and sexuality concerns that intersect with mental health.
She also addresses feelings of emptiness, guilt or shame, and problems with self-harm and self-love. Her goal is to help people build more manageable days and clearer choices. Therapy can feel hard at first, and Alice recognizes that courage is required to begin.
She offers steady support while people try out changes and build on small successes.
Evidence-based approaches and how they work online
Alice uses well established, evidence-based techniques to address anxiety, OCD, and mood concerns. One common approach focuses on skill building for managing intense feelings and worry - clients learn clear steps to reduce distress and practice them between sessions. Another approach addresses intrusive thoughts and compulsive behaviors by breaking the cycle that keeps those patterns active and teaching safer alternative responses.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Alice will talk with the client about their goals, try out techniques, and adjust methods based on what helps most. She treats therapy as a team effort where the client’s feedback guides the plan.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill demonstration. Phone sessions can be easier when video is difficult or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging support brief check-ins, quick skill practice, or more frequent contact between longer meetings. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, school, or family life.
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- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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