About Noel
Noel Nightingale Follis is a licensed clinical professional counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, and attention-related challenges like ADHD. She emphasizes a calm, open approach so people feel heard from the first session. Noel offers direct, practical support aimed at day-to-day improvements.
She has five years of clinical experience and holds an IL LCPC license, which she uses to guide tailored care. Noel meets people where they are and focuses on concrete steps that fit each person's life.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on improving coping skills, reducing overwhelm, and working through grief, trauma, or addictive behaviors when those issues are present. Noel blends several approaches in her work. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
She incorporates acceptance and commitment ideas to help people notice difficult thoughts and act according to values. Mindfulness methods are used to build present-moment awareness and reduce reactivity. She also draws from client-centered principles, offering nonjudgmental listening and reflective feedback.
For relationship concerns she uses aspects of the Gottman Method to identify communication patterns and practical ways to improve connection. Noel supports people exploring sexual identity and LGBT-related stress with sensitivity. People who choose Noel can expect straightforward guidance and collaborative goal-setting.
She works with individual adults and couples, helping them set realistic goals and track progress. Her style is conversational, respectful, and geared toward tools people can use between sessions.
Online approaches that fit real life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) emphasizes noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck on them and then choosing actions that match a person's values; it can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's experience through empathic listening and reflection to build trust and clarify goals.Noel views selecting an approach as a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to allow flexibility. Video calls are good for full conversations and reading nonverbal cues. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits the day. Live chat and text-based messaging can support quick check-ins, homework exchanges, and ongoing coaching between sessions.
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What this therapist 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
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