Alice McCarter, LICSW, LCSW

Licensed in Massachusetts · 22 years in practice

Alice McCarter brings more than two decades of clinical experience to her work.

License and registration

LICSW, Massachusetts: 111163 · expires May 2027
LCSW, North Carolina: C012823 · expires January 2027
NPI: 1588149660 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 22
Languages: English

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About Alice

Alice McCarter brings more than two decades of clinical experience to her work. She is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) who has practiced in Massachusetts and now sees people in North Carolina. Her style is direct and compassionate, aimed at helping people get through stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes.

Alice helps people facing relationship strain, issues with self-esteem, grief, and trauma. She also supports clients dealing with addictions, sleep and eating concerns, and ongoing health or caregiving stress.

Background and approach

Sessions focus on practical steps people can use right away. Her approach blends mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused ideas. She teaches simple attention and breathing practices, helps people clarify what matters most, and breaks problems into small, manageable goals.

The work is collaborative and paced to match each person’s readiness. Alice has spent many years helping people handle career strain, compassion fatigue, and the emotional impact of chronic illness. She also addresses intimacy-related worries, communication problems, and the challenges that come with divorce or blended families.

She uses everyday language and concrete tools rather than clinical jargon. People who choose her often want practical support and steady guidance. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.

To begin, a short questionnaire is used to match priorities and schedule an initial session.

Focus areas and approaches

Everything Alice lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

Stress, Anxiety
Relationship issues
Self esteem
Depression
Coping with life changes
Addictions
Family conflicts
Trauma and abuse
Grief
Intimacy-related issues
Eating disorders
Sleeping disorders
Parenting issues
Anger management
Career difficulties
Bipolar disorder
Coaching
Compassion fatigue
ADHD
Aging and geriatric issues
Autism and Asperger Syndrome
Blended family issues
Body image
Cancer
Caregiver issues and stress
Chronic pain, illness, and disability
Codependency
Commitment issues
Communication problems
Control issues
Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
Divorce and separation
Drug and alcohol addiction
Eating and food-related issues
Emptiness
Family of origin issues
Family problems
Fertility issues
First responder issues
Forgiveness
Guilt and shame
Hoarding
Hospice and end-of-life counseling
Infidelity
Intellectual disability
Isolation / loneliness
Life purpose
Midlife crisis
Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Money and financial issues
Mood disorders
Multicultural concerns
Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
Panic disorder and panic attacks
Post-traumatic stress
Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
Self-love
Sexuality
Smoking / vaping cessation
Trichotillomania
Women's issues
Workplace issues

Approaches Alice names

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Online support

Approaches that suit online therapy

Alice uses mindfulness therapy to help people notice their thoughts and bodily responses, and to practice simple attention and breathing exercises that reduce stress and increase calm. Motivational interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change and build motivation in a respectful, nonjudgmental way. Solution-focused therapy emphasizes small, concrete steps and practical goals so people can see progress between sessions.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then shape sessions to fit. This collaborative process makes it easier to try different techniques and pick what helps most.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling simpler. Video is helpful for full conversations and visual cues, phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and messaging fits people who prefer writing or need flexibility. These options make consistent work possible around busy lives and varied routines.

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Questions people ask

What concerns does she commonly address?

Alice works with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, trauma and abuse, and a wide range of life challenges including caregiving stress, addiction, sleep and eating problems, and career strain.

How would you describe her therapeutic style?

Her style is practical and collaborative. She mixes mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused work to set small goals and build coping skills.

What is her professional background?

She has 22 years of clinical experience, including work in Massachusetts and five years practicing in North Carolina.

What credentials and location are listed?

She holds MA LICSW and NC LCSW credentials and practices in North Carolina.

Which languages are supported for sessions?

Sessions are offered in English.

What session formats are available?

Therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.

How are costs and billing handled?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with her?

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