Noel Nightingale Follis, LCPC
Compassionate counselor for everyday parenting challenges
Book with Noel- Years in practice
- 5
- Credentials
- LCPC
- Licensed in
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Family conflicts
About Noel
Noel Nightingale Follis is a licensed clinical professional counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and parenting concerns. She works with issues such as grief, trauma and abuse, addiction, intimacy-related problems, and sleep or eating struggles. Noel aims to make the first step into therapy feel attainable and respectful of each person’s pace.
Noel creates an open space where clients can talk about thoughts and feelings without judgment.
Background and approach
She emphasizes practical conversation and straightforward tools people can use between sessions. Sessions are collaborative and focus on what matters most to the client in daily life. Her background includes five years of clinical experience and a license to practice in Illinois as an LCPC, which stands for Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor.
That experience has included work with people managing bipolar disorder, ADHD, and a range of chronic health and caregiving stresses. Noel draws from approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and client-centered methods. She also uses mindfulness and the Gottman Method where a client’s goals point to those techniques.
The aim is to match treatment to the person, not the other way around. People often come for help with career stress, compassion fatigue, adoption and foster care concerns, or complicated grief. Noel supports LGBT concerns and can address issues tied to attachment, codependency, and blended family dynamics.
Her style is steady, practical, and focused on helpful next steps.
What Noel works with
Everything Noel lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Noel helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Noel lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How approaches like ACT and CBT translate to online care
Noel uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice hard thoughts and choose actions that match their values. ACT is often helpful for stress, anxiety, and life changes because it emphasizes small, value-driven steps rather than trying to eliminate difficult feelings.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. CBT involves learning skills to shift patterns that make problems worse, and it can be useful for anxiety, sleep or eating issues, and low mood.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Noel will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That means trying techniques, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together over time.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls work well for in-depth conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework, or when typing feels more comfortable than speaking. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives while using clinically informed approaches.
Questions people ask about Noel
What kinds of concerns does Noel commonly address?
Noel works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and parenting concerns. She also supports those dealing with grief, trauma, addictions, self-esteem, and career strain.
What is Noel's therapy style like?
Her approach is conversational and practical. Sessions focus on clear goals, everyday strategies, and making space to talk about difficult feelings without judgment.
What experience does Noel bring to sessions?
Noel has five years of clinical experience and has worked with a broad range of presenting issues, including bipolar disorder, ADHD, and caregiver stress.
What are Noel's credentials and where is she located?
Noel holds an Illinois LCPC, which stands for Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, and she practices in Illinois.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available with Noel?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How does billing and cost 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 with Noel?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, fill out a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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