About Alice
Dr. Alice Noell is a licensed clinical social worker with 35 years of experience in North Carolina. She helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship trouble.
Her work focuses on practical steps people can use day to day to feel steadier and more able to cope. She blends several approaches to fit each person’s needs. That can mean learning skills to manage strong emotions, talking through attachment and relationship patterns, or practicing values-based changes that matter most to the client.
Background and approach
Sessions are paced to match how someone prefers to work, whether they want direct skill-building or more reflective conversation. Noell pays attention to real-life problems like caregiving strain, grief, addiction concerns, and major life changes. She also supports people dealing with identity questions, abandonment issues, and difficulties that come with complex or co-occurring concerns.
Her goal is to help people find clearer choices when life feels confusing. Her style is straightforward and respectful. She aims to make the therapy space calm and practical so clients can try new strategies between sessions.
Over time, many people notice better communication, less reactivity, and a stronger sense of internal direction. Therapy can look different for each person, and she works collaboratively to set goals. People who reach out typically complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first appointment to see how the fit feels.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and moving through life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors through concrete exercises, which can reduce worry and improve daily functioning. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at relationship patterns and how early connections shape current responses, helping with intimacy-related issues and recurring relationship stress.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist talks with each person about their goals and preferences and then tailors techniques from these approaches. Sessions are adjusted over time so the work stays relevant and practical for what the client needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different schedules and situations. Video allows face-to-face conversation and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging can be used for shorter check-ins, symptom tracking, or brief coaching between longer sessions. These options help fit therapy into busy lives and make ongoing support more accessible.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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