About Christy
Christy Bell is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) practicing in Georgia. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, low self-esteem, and problems with addictions and ADHD. She also supports those dealing with relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, career stress, and major life changes.
Christy uses a direct but compassionate style. She listens closely and helps clients notice patterns that get in the way. Sessions combine practical tools with time to understand feelings and personal history.
How Christy works
She often adapts exercises to a client's interests to keep work relevant and engaging. Her work draws from several well-known approaches. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people test unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers skills for emotional regulation and coping under pressure. Client-centered methods focus on the client's goals and strengths. Christy also brings perspective from existential and Jungian ideas when they fit the client's needs.
That can mean talking about meaning, values, and personal stories. She sometimes uses creative activities, including role-play or storytelling, to make progress feel concrete. With 12 years of experience, Christy balances challenge and support.
She encourages small, sustainable steps toward goals. The aim is to build skills that carry into daily life and reduce suffering.
Christy lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Christy works with
The areas below are the ones Christy selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Georgia |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Therapeutic approaches in online care
Christy often combines client-centered work with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Client-centered work means the conversation follows the client's pace, focuses on strengths, and builds goals that matter to the person. CBT helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors to reduce anxiety or depression.She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills when emotion regulation or self-destructive patterns are present. DBT teaches concrete skills for managing intense feelings, improving relationships, and tolerating distress without acting impulsively. These approaches fit many concerns like trauma responses, mood struggles, and relationship stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to select or combine methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That means checking in and adjusting course as work unfolds rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan.
Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face dialogue and exercises, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, live chat and text messaging are handy for brief check-ins or when typing helps people organize thoughts. These options make scheduling more flexible and let people fit therapy into busy days.
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