About Alice
Alice Bigelow welcomes people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, or questions about sexuality and gender. She works with individuals who are feeling overwhelmed by trauma, emptiness, OCD symptoms, or social anxiety. Alice writes plainly and offers steady support for the first steps toward change.
Alice holds the LCPC credential, which indicates she practices as a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in Illinois. She has five years of professional experience helping people talk through painful thoughts and painful memories.
Background and approach
Her style is down-to-earth and focused on practical ways to cope day to day. In sessions she treats each person as the expert on their own life. She helps clients name strengths and build skills to manage anxiety, intrusive thoughts, or low mood.
Work can include learning strategies to reduce compulsions, building self-compassion, and making sense of past hurts. Alice pays attention to concerns that commonly affect LGBTQ+ people, including questions around gender and sexuality. She also supports people who carry guilt, shame, or strong feelings of emptiness and who want clearer emotional balance.
Therapy with Alice combines straightforward conversation and skill practice. She helps clients set small goals, try new ways of coping, and notice progress. The focus is on steady, realistic steps that fit each person's life.
Practical approaches and online access
Alice uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on real-life change. One common approach is cognitive strategies that help identify unhelpful thoughts and test them against daily experiences to reduce anxiety and depressive thinking. Another focus is behavioral work for OCD and compulsions, which involves learning stepped exercises to reduce ritual behaviors and regain control over intrusive thoughts.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Alice will work with each person to figure out which techniques fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. Sessions are collaborative and can shift over time as progress and priorities change.
Online therapy with Alice is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging suit short check-ins, quick skill practice, or scheduling flexibility. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and maintain continuity of care.
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- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English