Alice Congdon , LPCC

Alice Congdon is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) practicing in Minnesota with 13 years of experience in the helping professions. She has worked across diverse settings including clients' homes, schools, workplaces, and traditional office environments, and has held roles such as Personal Care Assistant, Job Coach, Direct Service Professional, Mental Health Practitioner, in-patient therapist, and outpatient therapist. Her training includes internships in a chemical dependency rehabilitation facility serving minority women and placements in multiple K-12 schools, experiences that have shaped her approach to care.

Alice has developed particular expertise in treating depression, anxiety, addictions, relationship conflicts, and life transitions, and she also works with bipolar disorder, PTSD, ADHD, OCD, hoarding, grief and loss, and spiritual concerns. Her broader practice includes support for issues related to family dynamics, trauma and abuse, intimacy, parenting, career challenges, self-esteem, and compassion fatigue, among other areas. She also attends to specialized topics such as adoption and foster care, attachment concerns, autism spectrum considerations, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, codependency, and substance use issues.

Clinically, Alice draws from a range of evidence-informed approaches. She frequently uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Solution-Focused techniques, and incorporates Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Existential, Mindfulness, Motivational Interviewing, Narrative, Trauma-Focused, and Systemic therapies as appropriate to each person’s needs. Her work emphasizes understanding how the many parts of a person’s life interact to influence functioning, building insight, and translating that insight into short- and long-term goals.

Alice centers collaboration and hope in the therapeutic process, viewing each person as the primary expert on their own life while offering empathy, a non-judgmental stance, and a safe therapeutic atmosphere. Practical coordination of care includes evening availability for video and phone sessions, with messaging and live chat offered during morning and afternoon sessions and other available times.