Dr. Alice Noell, LCSW

Licensed in North Carolina · 35 years in practice

Dr. Alice Noell is a licensed clinical social worker with 35 years of practice in North Carolina.

License and registration

LCSW, North Carolina: C002815 · expires November 2026
NPI: 1679245088 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 35
Languages: English

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About Alice

Dr. Alice Noell is a licensed clinical social worker with 35 years of practice in North Carolina. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, relationship strain, grief, and trauma.

Her style is straightforward and warm, aimed at people who want practical tools and clearer thinking. She emphasizes personal strengths and steady progress rather than quick fixes. Sessions are centered on what matters to each person - their goals, their daily challenges, and what gets in the way of feeling better.

Background and approach

Dr. Noell uses a mix of approaches to match a client's needs, and she works at a calm pace so people can try new ways of coping. Her work often addresses intimacy issues, self-esteem struggles, anger, and life changes such as loss or major transitions.

She also gives focused support around attachment concerns, adoption and foster care experiences, caregiver stress, and complications that come with co-occurring conditions. Those dealing with longstanding patterns like avoidance, dependency, or control issues will find concrete strategies to test between sessions. Therapy sessions include talk, skill-building, and experiments people can use in real life.

Dr. Noell helps people practice new communication habits and manage strong emotions step by step. Over time she aims to help people build more stable routines, clearer boundaries, and greater confidence in handling hard moments.

Throughout her practice she keeps the work collaborative. People set the pace, and she offers options from different therapeutic approaches to fit each situation. Many people who come for help leave with clearer priorities and tools they can use long after sessions end.

Focus areas and approaches

Everything Alice lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

Stress, Anxiety
Addictions
Relationship issues
Trauma and abuse
Depression
Family conflicts
Grief
Intimacy-related issues
Anger management
Self esteem
Bipolar disorder
Coping with life changes
Abandonment
Adoption and foster care
Aging and geriatric issues
Antisocial personality
Attachment issues
Avoidant personality
Caregiver issues and stress
Co-morbidity
Codependency
Commitment issues
Communication problems
Control issues
Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
Dependent personality
Dissociation
Divorce and separation
Domestic violence
Drug and alcohol addiction
Emptiness
Family of origin issues
Family problems
Fatherhood issues
Forgiveness
Guilt and shame
HIV / AIDS
Hospice and end-of-life counseling
Immigration issues
Infidelity
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-love
Sexual assault and abuse
Social anxiety and phobia
Women's issues
Workplace issues
Young adult issues

Approaches Alice names

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Online support

Therapeutic approaches suited to online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes by focusing on what matters most rather than trying to avoid difficult feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches skills to shift patterns that maintain anxiety or depression. It often includes short experiments and homework to practice new responses between sessions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods to emphasize based on their goals, history, and preferences. That may mean blending ACT and CBT techniques or trying different strategies until something feels helpful.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls let people work face to face from wherever they are; phone sessions can fit a break at work or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for short check-ins, daily coaching, or when someone prefers typing to speaking. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting into real life.

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Questions people ask

What concerns does she help people address?

She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma and relationship problems, as well as grief, intimacy issues, anger, self-esteem, bipolar challenges, and coping with life changes.

What is her therapeutic style like?

Her approach is collaborative and practical. She blends talk therapy with skill-building so people leave with things they can try between sessions.

How much clinical experience does she have?

She brings 35 years of experience working with a wide range of emotional and behavioral concerns in North Carolina.

What are her credentials and location?

She holds an LCSW credential and practices in North Carolina.

Are sessions offered in other languages or internationally?

Sessions are offered in English, and international clients are accepted.

What session formats are available?

She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their schedule and needs.

How does payment and cost work?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

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