About Noel
Noel Nightingale Follis helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and life transitions. She is an Illinois-licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) with five years of clinical experience. Noel works with concerns like grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, intimacy issues, sleep and eating disruptions, and challenges tied to ADHD and bipolar disorder.
Noel focuses on building a warm, respectful space where clients can speak openly. She uses clear, compassionate language and listens for what matters most to each person.
How Noel works
Sessions are collaborative and paced to fit a client's needs. Her approach blends practical skill-building with attention to values and presence. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thinking.
Mindfulness and acceptance-based tools help with emotion regulation and grounding. Noel also incorporates client-centered aims and relationship skills work when helpful. That can include communication strategies from the Gottman Method for people wanting to improve connection.
Motivational interviewing supports change efforts such as addressing addictive patterns or finding new routines. She tailors work to everyday life - managing career stress, navigating caregiving strain, or coping after loss. Noel emphasizes small, doable steps and clearer choices.
The aim is steady progress toward goals that feel meaningful to each client.
Noel lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Noel works with
The areas below are the ones Noel selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while choosing actions that reflect their values. It can support coping with anxiety, grief, and life changes by focusing on what matters rather than on avoiding discomfort. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches concrete skills to shift unhelpful patterns. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating concerns, and stress management.Noel treats finding the right approach as a joint process. She will talk with clients about goals, try methods that match their priorities, and adjust plans based on what helps. That collaborative stance means approaches are blended to fit each person instead of sticking rigidly to one model.
Online work can make therapy easier to fit into busy lives. Video calls let people have a face-to-face conversation from their chosen location. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a camera is not wanted. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, skill practice between sessions, or when someone prefers written reflection. These formats offer flexibility while keeping the focus on steady progress toward client goals.
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