Alice Congdon , LPCC
Narrative-minded counselor with practical tools
Details
| Name | Alice Congdon |
|---|---|
| Credentials | LPCC |
| Based in | Minnesota |
| Licensed in | Minnesota |
| Session format | Online |
| Languages | English |
| Years in practice | 13 |
About Alice
Alice Congdon is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor who uses Narrative and cognitive approaches to help people make sense of hard life moments. She brings 13 years of experience and a straightforward, practical style to conversations about anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, and relationship strain. Alice frames problems as parts of a larger story people live in.
In sessions she helps people look at those stories, notice patterns, and try new ways of responding.
Background and approach
She pairs this with skills-based work from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy when people want tools to manage mood, worry, or cravings. Her background includes work in homes, schools, workplaces, inpatient and outpatient settings. That variety shaped a flexible approach that fits everyday life.
Alice has also worked as a personal care assistant, job coach, and mental health practitioner, which informs realistic goals and practical strategies. In a typical meeting she and the person set short-term and longer-term goals. They practice new skills between sessions and check progress together.
Alice emphasizes hope and a down-to-earth plan so people can see small changes add up over time. She conducts sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging and helps people arrange formats that match their routines. Alice works with adults facing stress, parenting challenges, trauma, identity concerns, chronic illness, and career pressures.
What this therapist works with
Her listing names Stress, Anxiety, Addictions, Relationship issues among the things Alice works with, alongside the areas below.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches listed
- Narrative Therapy: Named in her listing among her approaches.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Listed by Alice among the ways she works.
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT): Listed by Alice among the ways she works.
- Existential Therapy: Listed by Alice among the ways she works.
- Mindfulness Therapy: Listed by Alice among the ways she works.
- Motivational Interviewing: Listed by Alice among the ways she works.
- Solution-Focused Therapy: Listed by Alice among the ways she works.
- Trauma-Focused Therapy: Listed by Alice among the ways she works.
- Systemic Therapy: Listed by Alice among the ways she works.
- Training stated: This directory copies the approaches a therapist names and does not check training records. Ask Alice directly how much of the work is narrative and what a session usually looks like.
Narrative Therapy in this listing
Narrative Therapy appears in this therapist's own list of approaches. That tells you it is part of how she works. It does not tell you how much of a session it shapes, and this directory does not check or rate training.
If a narrative approach is what you are looking for, it is worth asking Alice directly how she uses it and what a session usually looks like.
Online session options
How Narrative and Skills Work Translate Online
Online sessions may draw on Narrative Therapy to look at the stories shaping a person's day-to-day life. This approach helps people name patterns and try new ways of telling their story so they feel less stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy offers straightforward tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can reduce anxiety, lift mood, or support recovery from addictive patterns.Choosing an approach is a shared process. The therapist will listen to your goals and suggest methods that fit your situation. Together you'll try approaches and adjust based on what helps most, moving between story work and skills practice as needed.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can pick what works with their routine. Video lets for face-to-face conversation and skills practice, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives.
Common questions about this listing
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma and relationship issues as well as parenting, grief, and identity concerns.
What is her style in therapy?
Her style blends Narrative work with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and DBT elements, focusing on stories people tell and concrete skills for daily life.
How much experience does she have?
Alice has 13 years of experience working in homes, schools, inpatient and outpatient settings and in roles like job coach and mental health practitioner.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, MN LPCC, practicing from Minnesota.
Which languages are supported and can international clients work with her?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not accepting international clients.
What session formats are available?
Sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How is cost handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What do I do to begin working with her?
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