About Noel
Noel Nightingale Follis is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. She works with individuals and couples on intimacy, family worries, and life transitions. Noel aims to make starting therapy feel manageable and respectful of how hard that first step can be.
Noel keeps sessions direct and down-to-earth. She creates a calm space where thoughts and feelings can be shared without judgment.
Background and approach
Conversations focus on practical steps and small changes that fit day-to-day life. Her work draws on cognitive behavioral ideas that look at how thoughts affect feelings and actions. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clients notice what matters most and act on those values.
Mindfulness techniques are woven in to help people manage stress and stay present. Noel has five years of clinical experience and holds an Illinois LCPC, which is Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor. She has worked with people dealing with grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, ADHD, and a wide range of life stressors.
Sessions may include skill practice between meetings and goal-setting that adapts over time. Noel combines listening with concrete tools so clients can try new ways of coping. She encourages honest, practical conversations and gradual progress.
People looking for help with career questions, self-esteem, caregiving stress, or blended family concerns can expect focused, steady support. Noel aims to help each person find realistic strategies that fit their routine and values.
Approaches that translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters most and take actions toward those values even when anxiety or doubt shows up. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and life changes because it focuses on meaningful goals rather than fighting every uncomfortable feeling. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches concrete skills to notice and change thought patterns that increase anxiety or low mood. It often includes practice between sessions to build new habits and reduce worry. Client-Centered Therapy centers the client's experience and pace, offering a nonjudgmental space where people can talk through their concerns and feel heard.Noel treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with each person about goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adapt the plan based on what helps. This collaborative process helps pick the mix of ACT, CBT, mindfulness, or supportive conversation that works best for each person.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls make it easy to hold a longer therapy session without travel. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging can work well for brief check-ins, homework, and ongoing support between sessions. These options add flexibility for people balancing work, caregiving, or other commitments while getting consistent therapeutic support.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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