About Alice
Alice Thompson is a Michigan licensed social worker with 25 years of professional experience. She helps people who are struggling with grief, depression, anxiety, stress, and life changes. Alice creates a welcoming space where people can say what they feel without fear of judgment.
She meets each person where they are and moves at a pace that feels manageable. Sessions focus on practical steps to reduce distress and on building skills people can use between appointments.
How Alice works
Alice also supports concerns around relationships, intimacy, parenting, eating issues, and self-esteem. Her background includes long-term work with people facing trauma, abuse, and complicated medical or aging issues. She has helped people cope with hospice and end-of-life matters, disaster-related stress, and challenges such as hoarding, obsessive-compulsive patterns, and traumatic brain injury.
Additional areas of focus include postpartum depression, bipolar mood concerns, and multicultural issues. Alice values clear, direct conversation. She helps clients name the problem, try small changes, and track what works.
Treatment plans are practical and tailored to each person’s goals and daily life. People who choose Alice can expect steady support and straightforward guidance. She aims to help clients regain functioning, reduce overwhelming feelings, and move toward a more manageable, meaningful life.
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.
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
Training and background
| Register | LMSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches that guide online work
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques often focus on clear, practical steps to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. One common approach helps people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try small behavioral changes to test new outcomes. This kind of work is useful for depression, anxiety, and stress-related problems.Another approach emphasizes coping skills and stabilization after trauma or intense loss. It teaches grounding, pacing, and routines that can make overwhelming days more manageable, which helps with grief, posttraumatic reactions, and compassion fatigue.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or has not helped before. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging adds flexibility. Video lets people use facial cues and longer conversations, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can fit quick check-ins, and text messaging supports brief reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep consistent momentum toward goals.
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