About Alissa
Alissa Bell, LPC, helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. She uses clear, practical steps to ease daily strain and build steadier coping skills. Her voice is warm and straightforward, and she focuses on what a person needs right now.
Alissa brings 13 years of clinical experience and a background as a former high school English teacher. That classroom experience shaped her patient, direct style. She listens closely, asks plain questions, and helps clients notice small changes that make a difference.
Background and approach
Her sessions often include short, doable strategies to manage worry and mood. Alissa draws on client-centered work to keep the conversation rooted in each person’s goals. She also uses cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thinking and DBT skills for emotion regulation when stress feels intense.
People reach out to her for a range of concerns including anxiety, depression, parenting strain, relationship problems, addiction issues, ADHD, and burnout. She also helps with attachment and blended family challenges, body image concerns, grief after separation, and struggles common to first responders. Alissa offers video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging sessions to fit different schedules.
She will work with you to set achievable goals and practical steps. To begin, select Start Therapy, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a session based on therapist availability.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Alissa commonly uses client-centered methods that keep the work focused on each person’s goals and priorities. This approach means sessions move at your pace and center what matters most to you.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps people notice and change unhelpful thought patterns that fuel anxiety and low mood. DBT - dialectical behavior therapy - provides concrete skills for managing strong emotions and improving stress tolerance.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. She will talk with you about your goals, try methods that fit your needs, and adjust plans together if something isn’t working. The therapist-client relationship guides which techniques are used and when to shift focus.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visible cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is handy for quick check-ins, and text messaging supports brief updates or moment-to-moment coaching. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy days while keeping the work collaborative and goal-focused.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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