About Alice
Alice McCarter is a licensed clinical social worker with more than 22 years of practice. She holds an MA and is credentialed as an LICSW and an LCSW. Alice has worked across settings and now sees people in North Carolina, bringing long experience to everyday problems.
Alice focuses on common worries like stress, anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem. She also helps people facing life transitions, relationship and communication struggles, grief, and addiction concerns.
Background and approach
ADHD is listed among her areas of focus and she includes it when relevant to a person's goals. Her style is practical and straightforward. She uses short-term strategies alongside reflective conversation so people can notice change quickly.
Sessions often center on skills for coping, clearer communication, and small steps that build momentum. Alice draws on mindfulness techniques to help calm attention and reduce reactivity. Motivational Interviewing supports people who want to make behavior changes but feel stuck.
Solution-Focused Therapy narrows in on what’s working and builds on strengths to reach specific goals. She aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through what’s hard and try new ways of managing life. The work is collaborative - Alice and the person set goals together and check progress as they go.
Practical tools and simpler routines are common outcomes of the work.
How her approaches work online
Alice uses mindfulness to help people notice and steady their attention, reduce reactivity, and practice brief calming exercises that can be used between sessions. Mindfulness is helpful for anxiety, stress, and focus-related struggles.She also uses Motivational Interviewing, a conversational method that helps people clarify their reasons for change and build commitment at their own pace. This approach supports work on habits, addictions, and goals that feel hard to start.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. She will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past, then try methods that fit the person’s needs. The process is collaborative and adjusted as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video is useful for deeper conversational work, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options aim to make scheduling and follow-up more flexible for different routines and needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts, North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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