About Bella
Bella Lurie is a California-based licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) who helps people facing grief, intimacy concerns, low self-esteem, career crossroads, and ADHD-related challenges. She speaks English, Hebrew, and Russian. Her style is conversational and curious, inviting clients to notice language, meaning, and patterns that shape daily life.
Bella uses a strengths-oriented lens drawn from positive psychology to widen what feels possible after hard events. Sessions often focus on small, practical changes in how a person talks to themselves and others.
How Bella works
Over six years she has guided people through losses, commitment worries, and relationship friction by breaking problems into manageable steps. Her work also addresses attachment and abandonment themes, adoption and foster care questions, and the stress that comes with caregiving or chronic illness.
She pays attention to how past stories influence present choices and helps people experiment with new ways of relating and communicating. Clients may find attention to everyday language and spontaneous expression helpful when working through issues like codependency, control struggles, and intimacy barriers. Bella frames progress as a series of tests and adjustments rather than perfect solutions.
That approach can make change feel less overwhelming. Practical options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Bella asks new clients to complete a short matching questionnaire to begin and schedules sessions based on availability.
What Bella works with
The areas below are the ones Bella selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English, Hebrew, Russian |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How Bella’s approaches translate online
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques here focus on practical language work and strengths-based positive psychology. Language-focused work looks at how everyday words and stories shape feelings and behavior; it helps people notice patterns and try new ways of speaking to themselves and others. Positive psychology techniques emphasize identifying existing strengths and building small, repeatable habits to improve mood and confidence.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Bella will collaborate with each person to test methods and adjust based on goals, preferences, and what proves most helpful. She treats therapy as an ongoing experiment, where the client’s feedback guides which techniques are kept or changed.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into a busy life. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone calls can work well for catch-ups or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging let clients check in between sessions or use shorter, more frequent touchpoints. These options add flexibility for scheduling and for matching how a person prefers to communicate.
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