About Alice
Alice McCarter is a licensed social worker with more than 22 years of clinical experience. She holds an MA LICSW and an NC LCSW and has provided care in Massachusetts as well as North Carolina. Her focus is on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns.
McCarter uses straightforward methods to help clients tackle everyday struggles. She works with issues like self-esteem, life transitions, grief, trauma and abuse, and coping with chronic health problems.
How Alice works
She also addresses challenges related to addiction, sleep and eating difficulties, and career strain. Her style is practical and collaborative. Sessions often include short-term goal setting, skills practice, and moments of reflection.
She draws on mindfulness to help people calm their minds, motivational interviewing to build internal drive for change, and solution-focused techniques to identify steps that make a real difference. Clients can expect direct guidance alongside empathy. McCarter aims to help people build resilience, strengthen communication, and find clearer direction during hard phases of life.
She gives tools that can be used between sessions to support day-to-day coping. Located in North Carolina, she offers a range of session formats for added flexibility. The approach is intended to be approachable and usable for people juggling work, caregiving, and medical challenges.
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What Alice works with
The areas below are the ones Alice selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Registers | LICSW, LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 22 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
Approaches adapted for online care
Mindfulness Therapy involves simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus. It can help with anxiety, stress, sleep problems, and chronic pain by teaching ways to notice and shift unhelpful mental habits.Motivational Interviewing focuses on strengthening a person’s own reasons to change. It uses supportive questions and reflections to clarify goals and build momentum, which is useful for addiction, behavior change, and commitment to new routines.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That discussion can happen in a first session and be adjusted over time as progress or obstacles become clear.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals and come in several formats: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth or camera use is limited, live chat for short check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These options make scheduling easier, allow quick follow-ups, and let people pick the format that fits their day-to-day life.
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