About Noel
Noel Nightingale Follis is a licensed clinician practicing in Illinois who supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family challenges, trauma and abuse, grief, and a wide range of other concerns.
Background and approach
With five years of clinical experience and an Illinois LCPC credential, she draws on evidence-informed methods to help clients navigate life changes, intimacy and sexual concerns, addictive behaviors, attention challenges, and issues of self-esteem and career direction. Noel emphasizes a warm, nonjudgmental atmosphere where thoughts and feelings can be expressed openly.
She incorporates approaches such as acceptance and commitment work, cognitive tools to reshape unhelpful patterns, mindfulness skills, and relationship-focused techniques to address communication and intimacy. Whether addressing eating or sleeping difficulties, caregiving stress, or identity-related matters, Noel aims to collaborate with each person to build practical strategies and personal insight.
Her practice also extends to concerns like compassion fatigue, bipolar management support, and complex presentations involving co-morbidity. Noel encourages taking the first step toward help and supports clients through the initial scheduling and matching process with empathy and clear expectations.
Evidence-Informed Approaches for Online Care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people name what matters to them and build habits that align with those values, even when difficult thoughts or emotions are present; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and learning skills to challenge and change them, often helping with anxiety, mood concerns, and coping strategies. Mindfulness Therapy teaches present-moment awareness and practical exercises to reduce reactivity and improve emotional regulation, which can support stress, grief, and chronic worry.Noel approaches treatment as a collaborative process and will work with clients to determine which methods fit their goals, preferences, and specific concerns. Together they assess progress and adapt techniques so the work remains practical and relevant to each person's life.
Online sessions are available via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, offering flexibility for scheduling and ongoing access to support. These formats can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue care when in-person meetings are not feasible, while allowing therapists to deliver structured, skill-based work through remote communication.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English