About Patricia
Dr. Patricia Bell is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida. She brings 15 years of clinical experience and a practical, down-to-earth approach to sessions.
She focuses on helping people who are stressed, anxious, grieving, dealing with addiction, or struggling with relationships and intimacy. Her work draws on cognitive-based ideas while also using acceptance and commitment and attachment-informed perspectives. In sessions she helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, try new behaviors, and practice skills that reduce overwhelm.
Background and approach
She offers concrete tools for managing anxiety, anger, mood swings, and relationship conflict. Patricia has worked across a broad range of concerns from trauma and abuse to caregiving stress and chronic illness. She also supports people facing life transitions, career strain, body image or eating problems, and issues around commitment and communication.
Her background includes work with diverse adult clients over many settings during her 15-year career. Sessions are collaborative and practical. Patricia aims to make therapy easy to understand and use day to day.
She listens for what matters most to each person and tailors strategies to match their life and goals. Dr. Bell holds a PsyD in Counseling and practices as an FL LMHC.
She offers sessions in English and accepts international clients. People can meet by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging through the platform.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting ruled by them. It focuses on identifying personal values and taking small steps toward a meaningful life, which can help with anxiety and life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Sessions typically include practical exercises to challenge negative thinking and build new coping skills for depression, anxiety, and anger.
Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early and current relationship patterns affect reactions and trust. It can be useful for intimacy concerns, communication problems, and attachment issues.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences, then tailor methods - often combining techniques - to fit their situation. This is a collaborative process focused on what helps most in daily life.
Online sessions can make therapy easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers quick check-ins, and text messaging supports short ongoing reflection. These options offer flexibility so people can choose the format that best matches their schedule and needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- 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
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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