About Noel
Noel Nightingale Follis helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship trouble, and life transitions. She also supports those dealing with grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, and intimacy-related concerns. Noel works with people who want help with sleep and eating issues, parenting strain, career stress, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
She practices in Illinois and brings five years of clinical experience to her practice. Noel creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through what’s on their mind.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals and practical steps that fit a person’s life. She uses straightforward techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and build new habits. Her approach blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and client-centered listening.
Mindfulness practices are used to help people stay present and reduce worry. For couples work she draws on the Gottman Method to improve communication and connection. Noel began serving clients after training and has accumulated five years of clinical experience.
She holds the LCPC credential, which indicates licensure in Illinois. That background informs a steady, collaborative style in session. People come to Noel when they need clear tools and a listening ear.
She helps set small, doable goals and checks progress regularly. Her work aims to make therapy useful and practical for daily life.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Noel commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online work. ACT helps people notice painful thoughts and commit to actions that match their values. It often helps with major life changes, grief, and chronic worry. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns.She also uses client-centered techniques and mindfulness to support people as they talk through challenges. The therapist will work together with each person to decide which approach fits best based on goals and preferences. Finding the right method is a collaborative process and may include trying different tools until something clicks.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is helpful for interactive exercises and seeing nonverbal cues. Phone sessions are a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging suit short check-ins, brief coaching, or times when typing fits better into a schedule. These options let people fit therapy into workdays, caregiving routines, or busy lives.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English