About Alice
Alice McCarter is a licensed social worker with more than 22 years of clinical experience and practice in North Carolina. She holds an MA LICSW (111163) and a North Carolina LCSW (C012823). Alice focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns in everyday terms.
She listens for what feels most urgent and practical. Sessions often focus on building coping skills for life changes, improving communication, and addressing habits that affect sleep, eating, or substance use.
Background and approach
Alice also helps people facing grief, trauma, caregiving strain, and burnout. Her style is straightforward and collaborative. She uses techniques from mindfulness to help people notice thoughts and feelings without getting overwhelmed.
Motivational interviewing supports shifts in habits and readiness for change, while solution-focused work concentrates on concrete steps and goals. Alice has worked in different settings over two decades, including long-term clinical roles in Massachusetts and five years practicing in North Carolina. That breadth gives her familiarity with health, work, and family-related stresses across life stages.
She often supports people dealing with chronic illness, cancer caregiving, and age-related concerns. People come to Alice when they want clear tools and steady support. She helps set achievable goals, track progress, and adjust the plan as needs change.
The overall aim is to restore daily functioning and a greater sense of control.
Therapeutic approaches and what online work looks like
Alice uses mindfulness practices to help people notice thoughts and bodily sensations without getting swept away; this can be helpful for anxiety, stress, and regulating emotions. She also uses motivational interviewing to support changes in behavior, such as shifting habits around substance use, sleep, or self-care by exploring readiness and personal values. Solution-focused work zeroes in on small, practical steps and measurable goals that can make daily life feel easier.Picking the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals, try out methods, and adjust the plan together as progress and needs become clearer. Clients help shape which tools are emphasized so the work fits their life and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper discussion and skill practice. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when being on camera is not needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, step-by-step coaching, or support between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or medical appointments while keeping focus on practical change and coping skills.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- 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
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts, North Carolina
- Languages
- English