About Noel
Noel Nightingale Follis is a licensed clinical professional counselor in Illinois who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family concerns. She also supports people dealing with grief, trauma, addictions, ADHD, and life changes. Noel approaches sessions with a calm, direct manner and focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
Noel brings five years of clinical experience to her work. She creates a space where clients can talk about hard feelings without judgment.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and goal oriented, with attention to what the person needs now. Her style blends cognitive behavioral techniques with acceptance and mindfulness-based strategies. That means she helps people notice unhelpful thinking patterns, try small experiments, and build values-based habits that match their goals.
She also uses client-centered methods to keep the pace and focus under the client’s control. Noel has worked with individuals and couples on intimacy, communication, and rebuilding trust. She also supports parents with stress around caregiving and blended family challenges.
Her approach emphasizes clear steps and real-world practice between sessions. Clients working with Noel can expect collaborative planning, skill practice, and regular check-ins on progress. She aims to make therapy manageable and relevant to daily life.
Signing up begins with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling based on availability.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small actions that match those values. It can help with anxiety, depression, and getting unstuck when life changes feel overwhelming. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) centers on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce symptoms and improve daily routines. It is useful for anxiety, mood concerns, and sleep or eating issues.Noel treats approach selection as a team effort. She will talk with the client about goals and try methods that fit the person’s preferences. Together they review what helps and adjust the plan so techniques match real needs and daily life demands.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and situations. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when being on camera is not ideal. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or when someone prefers written communication during the day.
Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does Noel help with?
How would you describe her therapy style?
What experience does Noel bring to sessions?
What are Noel's credentials and where is she located?
Which languages are supported for sessions?
What session formats are available with Noel?
How is cost handled for sessions?
What do I need to do to begin working with Noel?
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
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.