About Alice
Alice Congdon is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) based in Minnesota. She brings 13 years of experience in the helping professions and focuses on anxiety, depression, addictions, and life transitions. She practices with a direct, practical style that aims to build hope and forward momentum for clients.
Alice has worked in multiple settings including clients' homes, schools, workplaces, inpatient care, and outpatient clinics. Those roles included personal care assistant, job coach, direct service professional, and mental health practitioner.
Background and approach
This range of experience shaped a flexible approach to everyday problems. In session she uses cognitive behavioral ideas to identify thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills and motivational interviewing to help people change patterns and stay motivated.
Sessions focus on small, practical steps that connect to daily and weekly goals. Alice emphasizes the client's perspective and treats each person as the expert on their own life. She helps people clarify what they want, set realistic goals, and practice new ways of coping.
The work aims to create tools that can be used between sessions. Common concerns she addresses include stress, relationship struggles, grief, trauma, parenting strain, ADHD, and issues tied to adoption or attachment. Alice also supports people dealing with career questions, body image concerns, and substance-related problems.
Her style is straightforward, supportive, and goal oriented.
Approach and online options that fit your life
Alice often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. This approach is useful for anxiety, depression, and everyday stress because it breaks problems down into clear steps. She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness for intense moods and relationship strain.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust plans as needed. That means testing what helps and keeping the strategies that fit the person's life and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video is good for longer, face-to-face work; phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited; messaging and chat work well for quick check-ins, homework support, or shorter progress updates. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules while using approaches like CBT and DBT in everyday situations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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