Alice Congdon , LPCC

Alice Congdon is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) practicing in Minnesota who brings 13 years of experience working across diverse settings. She has provided support in clients' homes, schools, places of employment, and traditional office environments, and her background includes roles such as Personal Care Assistant, Job Coach, Direct Service Professional, Mental Health Practitioner, in-patient therapist, and outpatient therapist. Internships in a chemical dependency rehabilitation program focused on minority women and in multiple K-12 schools have informed her broad perspective on care.

Alice specializes in areas including stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship concerns, depression, life transitions, grief, trauma and abuse, parenting and family challenges, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and intimacy-related issues. She also works with adoption and foster care matters, attachment and communication difficulties, chronic illness and pain, codependency, and other complex life stressors. Her approach centers on understanding the many parts of a person’s life and how those parts interact to affect daily functioning.

Clinically, Alice draws heavily on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and integrates Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Existential therapy, Mindfulness techniques, and Motivational Interviewing when appropriate. She emphasizes collaborative goal-setting, helping clients translate insight into concrete short- and long-term steps that build hope and momentum. Alice believes the person in therapy is the expert on their own life, and she partners with clients to choose goals and interventions that fit their values and priorities.

In practice she offers multiple ways to connect - video and phone sessions in evening hours and messaging or live chat during morning and afternoon times - to accommodate different needs and schedules. Alice focuses on creating a respectful, empathetic, and non-judgmental space to support clients as they work toward meaningful change.

Online Therapeutic Approaches and Flexible Care

Alice commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and she also draws on Motivational Interviewing when appropriate. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce symptoms and improve day-to-day functioning, making it useful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related concerns. DBT emphasizes building skills in emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness, which can help with intense emotions, relationship conflicts, and coping with crises. Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative, person-centered method that helps people explore ambivalence and find internal motivation for change, often used in addiction work and behavior change efforts.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Alice works collaboratively with each person to assess needs, goals, and preferences and to adapt techniques that best fit the individual’s circumstances. Clients and therapist decide together how to combine methods and which strategies to practice between sessions.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility: sessions can occur by video call or phone, and many clients find value in messaging options like live chat or text-based exchanges for check-ins and ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to maintain continuity of care when in-person meetings are difficult, while still working with licensed professionals and trained therapists toward meaningful goals.