About Alice
Dr. Alice Noell is a licensed clinical social worker with 35 years of practice in North Carolina. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, relationship strain, trauma, stress, and addiction.
Her style is steady and direct, with a focus on practical steps people can try between sessions. She uses a mix of methods that match each person's needs. That might mean learning new thinking skills, practicing emotional regulation, or working on attachment and relationship patterns.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be collaborative and easy to follow, not full of jargon. Dr. Noell has worked with adults facing life transitions, grief, and chronic stress.
She helps people rebuild confidence and find routines that support daily functioning. She also supports people dealing with intimacy concerns, anger, and self-esteem struggles. When trauma or abuse is part of the story, she moves at a pace the client can tolerate and focuses on safety and coping skills.
For mood disorders such as bipolar disorder, she helps clients develop strategies for stability and symptom management alongside other supports they may use. Her background emphasizes respectful listening and clear tools. People leave sessions with concrete practices to try, such as behavioral experiments, emotion regulation exercises, or values-driven goals.
The aim is steady progress toward things that matter in each person's life.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, avoidance, and motivation struggles. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety. It often uses short exercises and behavioral experiments between sessions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how past relationships shape current patterns and focuses on building healthier ways of relating and feeling supported in connections.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, past experiences, and what has helped before. Together they choose which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people work face-to-face if they prefer visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good fit when lower bandwidth or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to fit support into a busy day or to check in between longer sessions. These options let clients tailor care to their schedule and comfort while using the same therapeutic methods as in-person work.
Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
What is her clinical background?
Where is she based and what are her credentials?
In which languages can sessions be held?
What session formats does she offer?
How are costs handled for sessions?
How do I begin working with her?
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- 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
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.