About Patricia
Dr. Patricia Bell is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with 15 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who are facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, addictions, grief, trauma, and a wide range of life changes.
Her work combines practical talk therapy with skills people can use between sessions. Dr. Bell draws on cognitive approaches as a core framework while also integrating Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based ideas, and techniques from Dialectical Behavior Therapy when they fit a person's needs.
How Patricia works
She aims to make therapy straightforward and goal-directed, so people leave sessions with clear next steps. Sessions focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts, practicing new behaviors, and building emotional skills. Her background includes a Doctor of Psychology in counseling and many years of direct practice in Florida.
That experience informs how she helps people manage mood disorders, ADHD, eating and body-image concerns, and complications related to chronic illness or caregiving stress. She also works with issues such as abandonment, attachment difficulties, codependency, and commitment struggles. Dr.
Bell uses a client-centered stance that emphasizes collaboration and respect for each person's pace. She supports people through career transitions, compassion fatigue, bipolar challenges, and the practical work of rebuilding after loss or trauma. The aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes.
People who choose her often want clear tools and steady guidance. The therapy process includes skill practice, problem-solving, and attention to emotional patterns that keep problems going. Dr.
Bell helps people turn insight into everyday change.
Patricia lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- 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
What Patricia works with
The areas below are the ones Patricia selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How these therapeutic approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and shift toward actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting negative thought patterns and testing them with small behavior changes to reduce symptoms like depression and anxiety. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and helps reshape how someone relates to others and to themselves.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Dr. Bell will discuss goals and preferences and then choose or blend approaches with the person she is working with. That collaborative process means adjustments can be made as therapy progresses so methods stay useful and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and more interactive skill practice. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is an issue or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are options for quick check-ins, shorter sessions, or ongoing support between calls. These formats give flexibility to fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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