Dr. Alice Noell
Calm, practical therapy for life’s hard moments
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed in
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Alice
Dr. Alice Noell is a licensed clinical social worker with 35 years of experience based in North Carolina. She uses straightforward, supportive care to help people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship issues, addictions, and other life changes.
Her manner is direct and steady, aimed at helping clients feel heard and make practical changes. Dr. Noell combines several practical therapy styles to match each person's needs.
She often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to tackle unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
She also draws on attachment-based ideas to address how early relationships affect current patterns. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps clients notice painful feelings while focusing on meaningful action. Her sessions tend to be collaborative and down-to-earth.
Conversations center on clear goals and small, manageable steps. She pays attention to patterns like codependency, caregiver stress, or difficulty with communication and commitment. Many people come to her with complex or overlapping issues.
She has experience working with mood disorders such as bipolar, trauma and abuse, anger, intimacy-related problems, and coping after loss. Her long practice gives her a wide range of interventions to try when one approach alone is not enough. Dr.
Noell works in English and accepts international clients. She offers several online formats so people can choose what fits their life. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that suits them.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Dr. Noell commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy in her work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) teaches noticing difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, while encouraging actions that match personal values. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early relationship patterns and how they show up now, which can help with communication, trust, and intimacy-related struggles.She aims to determine the right approach together with each person. Early sessions focus on understanding goals, daily challenges, and what methods feel most useful. That collaborative process guides whether to emphasize ACT, attachment work, or practical cognitive-behavioral strategies in ongoing sessions.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people juggling busy lives or distance constraints. Video calls let conversations feel more like in-person visits, while phone sessions can be simpler to fit into a day. Live chat and text-based messaging provide shorter, on-the-go check-ins or ways to review skills between sessions. These options make it easier to try different formats and keep therapy part of a real-world routine.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
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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
Next step
Talk to Alice
- Takes a few minutes
- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point