Alice McCarter
Calm, practical support for everyday challenges
- Credentials
- LICSW, LCSW
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed in
- Massachusetts, North Carolina
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Alice
Alice McCarter is a licensed social worker with more than 22 years of clinical experience. She holds a Master of Arts and practices as an MA LICSW and NC LCSW. She works in North Carolina and draws on a long career helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes.
Alice focuses on real problems people bring day to day. She listens, helps clarify priorities, and offers concrete steps to try between sessions.
Background and approach
Her style is practical and down-to-earth rather than theoretical. People can expect clear guidance and steady support in each meeting. Her background includes work across varied settings, addressing issues such as addiction, grief, trauma, and caregiving stress.
She also has experience with concerns like sleep and eating problems, body image, and career-related strain. That breadth gives her flexibility in matching approaches to what a person needs right now. Alice uses techniques drawn from mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused work to keep sessions goal-oriented and manageable.
She teaches simple skills for managing overwhelming moments and helps people set small, achievable goals. Progress is tracked in ways that make sense for each individual. Sessions are offered in English and delivered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Costs vary by location and availability and use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a person selects the Start Therapy button, completes a short matching questionnaire, and schedules according to therapist availability.
How therapeutic methods translate to online sessions
Alice uses mindfulness to help people notice stress and return attention to the present moment. That practice can reduce rumination and make intense feelings easier to manage, especially during stressful days.She also uses motivational interviewing to help people clarify what matters to them and find the motivation to change habits. This approach is gentle and collaborative, useful for challenges like addiction, health behavior, or making life changes.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Alice will discuss options and tailor methods to a person’s goals, needs, and comfort level. She treats the choice of techniques as a shared decision and adjusts as progress unfolds.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone meetings, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit varied routines. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives, respond quickly between sessions, and practice skills in real time. The variety also lets people choose how they communicate most comfortably while working toward their goals.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
Solution-Focused Therapy
Rather than examining the problem at length, this looks at what is already working and builds on it. Sessions tend to be practical and forward-looking, with small achievable steps, which translates readily to shorter online conversations.
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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
Next step
Talk to Alice
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