Dr. Alice Hoag’s mission is to facilitate healing of painful emotions, releasing of past wounds, restoration of healthy relationships, and retraining of the mind. Her ultimate goal is to help people move to personal wholeness, interpersonal competence, mental stability, and spiritual maturity. She specializes in working with women who struggle with anxiety, depression, bipolar, trauma and abuse recovery, grief and loss, and intimate relationship issues including infidelity, infertility, divorce recovery, co-parenting, and blending of families. When working with couples, her goals include helping restore love and respect in intimate relationships. Her primary theoretical orientations integrate neurologically-informed and trauma-informed Cognitive Therapy, Mindful Self-Compassion Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Systems Theory, Existential Theory, and traditional Insight-Oriented Therapy. The person-centered approach and techniques she uses promote insight, understanding and self-awareness to re-wire the brain, and personal empowerment to make healthy and meaningful life choices.
Dr. Hoag has three adult sons, and she lives alone with her miniature schnauzer. During her spare time, Dr. Hoag enjoys connecting with her family and friends, traveling, doing international missions work, listening to science podcasts and music, reading fiction and non-fiction, swimming, yoga, kayaking, playing her flute and guitar, solving jigsaw puzzles, and playing mind games like Sudoku, Wordle, Strands, and Connections. She has an avid interest in various cultures and languages, having lived in three countries and having visited over twenty-five. Dr. Hoag has been involved in her community church in many capacities, including being on staff, leading small groups, discipleship groups, couples’ groups, and assisting in the music ministry and children’s ministry.