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Noel O'Neil, LMFT

  • Experience25 years
  • LocationCalifornia
  • Focus areasADHD, Self esteem, and Career
  • Therapy approachesClient-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
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About Noel

Noel O'Neil is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 25 years of clinical experience working in California. He trained in approaches that emphasize the client's experience and strengths, including client-centered and cognitive behavioral methods, and often uses solution-focused strategies to help people move toward practical change.

Background and approach

Over decades in community behavioral health settings he has worked with a broad range of concerns and is particularly interested in helping adults who feel a loss of meaning and who want to reconnect with purpose in life.

Noel's style blends practical problem-solving with opportunities for deeper exploration, drawing on Jungian ideas and dream work when clients are curious about symbolic or spiritual dimensions. He offers support around relationships, career shifts, addiction and compassion fatigue, grief, sleep issues, ADHD, mood-related concerns such as bipolar, and many other life stressors.

He also brings coaching-oriented skills to work on communication, commitment, and caregiving stress. Outside of therapy he maintains a daily yoga and meditation practice and enjoys time in his small apple orchard, experiences that inform his grounded, reflective approach.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Practice

Many of Noel's sessions draw on Client-Centered Therapy, which emphasizes understanding the person's perspective and creating a supportive, nonjudgmental space to explore feelings and choices. This approach helps with issues like self-esteem, life purpose, and relationship concerns by centering the client's own goals and values.

He also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify patterns of thinking and behavior that contribute to distress and to develop practical skills for change. CBT is useful for challenges such as anxiety, sleep problems, mood regulation, and managing ADHD-related difficulties with organization and focus.

Finding the right combination of approaches is treated as a collaborative process. The therapist works with each person to assess goals, preferences, and responses to different methods, and adjusts strategies over time to better match what the client needs and wants to accomplish.

Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility for those balancing work, family, or mobility constraints. These options make it possible to maintain continuity of care and access therapeutic support from varied locations, while allowing clients to choose the format that fits their schedule and communication style.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does Noel address?
He works with a wide range of issues including self-esteem, career challenges, coping with life changes, relationship and family matters, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, bipolar concerns, and ADHD among other focus areas.
What is his therapeutic approach and style?
He favors client-centered and solution-focused work, using practical strategies alongside deeper exploration when useful. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Jungian perspectives are part of his toolkit to tailor sessions to individual needs.
How much experience does he have?
Noel brings 25 years of clinical experience, much of it in community behavioral health clinics where he treated diverse challenges and developed a flexible, practice-informed approach.
What are his credentials and where is he located?
He is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with the designation CA LMFT 20615 and practices in California.
Does he see speakers of other languages or international clients?
Sessions are offered in English only, and he is not currently accepting international clients.
In what formats are sessions available?
He offers multiple remote formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different preferences.
How much does therapy cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What steps are involved in getting started?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule a session according to the therapist's availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Self esteemCareer difficultiesCoping with life changesCoachingCompassion fatigue

Also works with

AddictionsRelationship issuesFamily conflictsTrauma and abuseGriefIntimacy-related issuesSleeping disordersParenting issuesAnger managementBipolar disorderADHD

Additional focus areas

Caregiver issues and stressCommitment issuesCommunication problemsCoping with natural or human-caused disasterForgivenessGuilt and shameIsolation / lonelinessLife purposeSelf-love

Therapeutic approaches

Client-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Existential TherapyJungian TherapySolution-Focused Therapy

Experience

25+ years

Licensed

California

Languages

English

What Noel can help with

Noel O'Neil works with clients on self esteem, career difficulties, coping with life changes, coaching, and compassion fatigue.

Noel works with adults who may be experiencing a sense of loss of meaning in life and are looking for a renewed sense of purpose.

Noel works with persons seeking a spiritual path.

How Noel approaches therapy

Noel's clinical approaches include Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Existential Therapy, Jungian Therapy, and Solution-Focused Therapy.

Experience and training

Noel is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist practicing in California, with 25 years of clinical experience.