Alice Congdon , LPCC

Alice Congdon is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) practicing in Minnesota with 13 years of experience. She brings a broad background from roles including personal care assistant, job coach, direct service professional, mental health practitioner, inpatient therapist, and outpatient therapist, as well as internships in a chemical dependency rehabilitation program focused on minority women and in multiple K-12 schools. Those varied settings inform her practical, person-centered approach to care.

Alice has particular experience supporting people facing depression, anxiety, addictions, relationship conflict, and life transitions, and she also works with bipolar disorder, PTSD, ADHD, OCD, hoarding, grief and loss, and spiritual concerns. Her specialty areas extend to family and parenting challenges, LGBT issues, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related problems, career and self-esteem concerns, and caregiver stress, among others. She considers the multiple pieces of a person - relationships, work, history, and daily habits - when assessing how best to improve functioning and well-being.

Clinically she identifies primarily with cognitive behavioral therapy and solution-focused brief therapy, while also drawing on existential, multicultural, motivational interviewing, family, and other approaches as needed. Her practice emphasizes collaboration - she treats the client as the expert on their life and partners to set goals and choose interventions. In-session work focuses on building insight and translating it into short- and long-term actions that foster hope and forward movement. She offers video and phone sessions in the evenings and provides messaging and live chat during morning and afternoon hours as well as other available times.

Evidence-Informed Approaches for Online Care

Alice uses cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and motivational interviewing as core tools in online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to relieve symptoms like anxiety and depression and to improve daily functioning. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) offers skills for managing intense emotions, improving interpersonal effectiveness, and tolerating distress in healthier ways. Motivational interviewing is a collaborative, nonjudgmental method that strengthens a person’s own motivation to make changes, often useful for substance use, addictions, and other ambivalent concerns.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. She collaborates with each person to determine which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences, adapting techniques over time as progress and priorities evolve. This collaborative stance helps clients feel involved in choices about their care.

Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which can make therapy more flexible around work, family, and daily life. These options allow licensed professionals and therapists to provide consistent support without requiring travel, and they can make it easier to engage with care at times that work best for the individual.