About Alice
Alice Rock is a licensed mental health counselor who centers sessions on practical, down-to-earth care. She draws on ten years of clinical experience to help people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, depression, and major life changes. Her style is straightforward and focused on everyday steps that make life more manageable.
Before working in independent practice she spent years doing substance use counseling in a hospital setting in Iowa. She also served as a school counselor for kindergarten through eighth grade and taught college-level psychology courses.
Background and approach
That mix of settings means she is familiar with how counseling fits into real life routines and systems. Alice uses several therapeutic approaches to meet different needs, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and client-centered methods. Sessions often involve identifying useful patterns, testing small behavior changes, and talking about values and goals.
She pays attention to how relationships, past hurts, and attachment patterns affect daily functioning. People reach out for many reasons: grief, family of origin issues, trauma and abuse, intimacy concerns, parenting stress, sleep and eating problems, career strain, and substance use. She also helps those working through abandonment, codependency, infidelity, or end-of-life concerns.
The focus is on steady progress rather than quick fixes. Alice blends practical skills with conversations about meaning and wellness. She encourages coping strategies people can use between sessions and supports clients as they adapt to new challenges.
Her aim is to make therapy feel useful and relevant to each person's life.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and still act toward what matters to them. It focuses on values, present-moment awareness, and small steps toward meaningful goals, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and trying new behaviors to change how someone feels. It often includes simple exercises to test thoughts and build coping skills for issues like stress, sleep problems, and addictions.
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a supportive, nonjudgmental relationship where the therapist listens and follows the person's lead. That approach helps people feel heard and clarify what they want to change in their life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Treatment can combine elements from different approaches and is adjusted over time based on progress.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to try approaches in the environments where life actually happens.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Iowa, Arizona
- Languages
- English
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