About Alice
Dr. Alice Noell is a licensed clinical social worker with 35 years of experience in North Carolina. She helps people who are overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, grief, depression, addiction, and traumatic events.
Her work is practical and direct, aimed at helping people feel steadier and more in control of daily life. She focuses on clear tools and real conversations rather than jargon. Sessions often include simple skills for managing strong emotions, patterns that get in the way, and steps to rebuild trust with yourself and others.
Background and approach
She uses approaches that help people make values-based choices and change habits that cause pain. Alice draws on a mix of talk-based methods and action-oriented strategies. She pays attention to how attachment and early relationships shape current problems.
She also uses techniques to reduce intense feelings and to shift unhelpful thinking and behavior. Her style is calm, attentive, and down-to-earth. People who prefer straightforward feedback and practical homework tend to do well with her.
She aims to create a space where people can notice patterns, try different responses, and slowly build more satisfying daily routines. Sessions can cover things like improving communication, coping with life transitions, managing mood swings, reducing substance use, and healing from past hurt. The focus is on small, steady steps that add up to clearer thinking and more reliable functioning.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and then taking small steps toward those values while learning to let unhelpful thoughts pass. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape how a person connects now and helps people notice and change patterns that harm intimate ties. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person in the room, using empathy and listening to help people find their own answers and build self-trust.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, trial approaches that seem to fit, and adjust the work as progress and preferences emerge. This shared decision-making helps tailor sessions to what actually helps in day-to-day life.
Online work using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging makes it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules. Video is useful when visual cues matter, phone calls can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, chat or text can suit quick check-ins or people who prefer writing, and messaging supports brief ongoing practice between meetings. These options give flexibility so people can keep therapy consistent even when life is unpredictable.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- 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