About Alice
Alice Congdon uses clear, practical approaches to help people make changes in their lives. She is an LPCC - Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor - practicing in Minnesota. Alice focuses on reducing stress and anxiety, addressing addictions, and guiding people through relationship and life transitions.
Sessions are straightforward and goal-oriented so clients know what to expect. Alice draws from cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change patterns of thinking that cause distress.
Background and approach
She also uses dialectical behavior therapy skills and mindfulness to teach emotion regulation and grounding tools. Motivational interviewing shows up in conversations about change and substance use. Her background includes work in schools, inpatient and outpatient settings, and roles such as job coach and mental health practitioner.
Those experiences shaped a hands-on style that blends practical skills with personal reflection. Alice has 13 years in the helping profession overall and over a decade in therapy roles. In sessions she helps clients set short- and long-term goals, then practices small, concrete steps to reach them.
She pays attention to life context - work, family, identity, and health - rather than treating symptoms in isolation. She aims to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where people can test new ways of coping. Alice works with common concerns like depression, grief, trauma, ADHD, body image, caregiving stress, and a wide range of relationship and life problems.
Her style is collaborative: she partners with each person to decide what approaches will fit their goals and daily life.
Practical therapy approaches adapted for online care
Alice uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and habit change because it breaks big problems into small, testable steps. She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness for strong reactions and relationship strain.Finding the right approach is collaborative. Alice will talk with each person about their goals, daily life, and what methods feel most useful. Together they shape a plan that can change over time as needs and goals evolve.
Online therapy offers several practical options. Video calls work well for deeper conversation and practicing skills together. Phone sessions can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited or someone prefers not to be on camera. Messaging and live chat let people check in between sessions, share quick updates, or do shorter coaching-style work during busy days. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and caregiving schedules while keeping a steady path toward goals.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English