Alice Thompson, LMSW
Supportive guide for grief and parenting concerns
Explore online therapy options- Years in practice
- 25
- Credentials
- LMSW
- Licensed in
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Grief
- Focus
- Depression
About Alice
Alice Thompson is a Michigan-licensed social worker with 25 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage grief, depression, anxiety, and stress. Parents looking for practical support with parenting concerns will find straightforward guidance and steady encouragement.
She aims to make the first step feel possible and less overwhelming. Thompson creates a calm space where clients can speak honestly about difficult feelings. Sessions center on clear questions, practical strategies, and steady listening rather than jargon.
Background and approach
She helps people sort priorities, identify small changes, and build coping steps that fit daily life. Her background includes substantial work addressing trauma, relationship strain, and intimacy-related concerns. She also supports people facing career stress, bipolar mood challenges, and compassion fatigue.
Additional experience covers end-of-life matters, hoarding, postpartum depression, and multicultural issues. Therapy with Thompson often focuses on problem solving and emotion management. She works collaboratively to set goals and track small progress.
People leave sessions with concrete tools to use between meetings and a clearer plan for the next steps. Thompson offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. Sessions are available in English and she accepts clients from outside the U.S. when scheduling allows.
Her credential is LMSW, which stands for Licensed Master Social Worker.
What Alice works with
Everything Alice lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Alice helps people with.
- Grief
- Depression
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Alice Thompson uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide sessions toward practical change. One common method she draws on helps people identify patterns in thoughts and behavior, then test small changes to see what works in daily life; this approach is useful for depression, anxiety, and stress. Another frequently used approach focuses on processing grief and loss through paced conversations and meaning-making tasks, which can help people find ways to carry on after a major loss.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Thompson collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. She checks in regularly and adapts plans when something isn’t helping, aiming for approaches that feel useful and doable.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation when bandwidth is available. Phone sessions can be a good option when movement or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging let clients check in between sessions or use shorter exchanges when that fits a schedule. These formats help people access care around work, childcare, or travel commitments and keep continuity when in-person meetings are difficult.
Questions people ask about Alice
What concerns does she help with?
She helps people coping with grief, depression, stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting concerns, trauma and abuse, anger, self-esteem, and career stress among other topics.
What is her therapy style like?
Her approach is practical and collaborative, with calm listening and clear questions. Sessions focus on small, achievable steps and tools clients can try between meetings.
How much experience does she have?
She has 25 years of professional work experience in clinical settings and community-based practice in Michigan.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds an LMSW, which is a Licensed Master Social Worker, and practices in Michigan.
Which languages and international options are supported?
Sessions are offered in English, and she accepts international clients when scheduling permits.
What session formats are available?
Available formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How does pricing work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working together?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling sessions according to therapist availability.
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