About Misty
Misty Faella is a licensed mental health counselor who uses a client-centered approach to help people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, and parenting challenges. She brings 17 years of experience and aims to create a respectful, compassionate space where clients guide the work and goals are practical and achievable. Her style is warm and interactive.
She listens first and then helps people decide what changes they want to make. Sessions focus on everyday coping skills, clearer communication, and steps to reduce overwhelming feelings.
Background and approach
Misty avoids stigmatizing labels and centers each person’s lived experience. She blends cognitive behavioral ideas with narrative and psychodynamic perspectives to address patterns that keep people stuck. This mix helps when someone has anxiety, low self-esteem, grief, or trouble managing emotions like anger or impulsivity.
Motivational interviewing is used to support readiness for change, including issues related to addictions. Misty has notable experience with adoption and foster care histories, and with people who have navigated caregiver stress or past trauma. She also works with concerns such as ADHD, social anxiety, and communicating in strained relationships.
Her practice includes attention to post-traumatic stress and the long-term effects of neglect or abuse. In sessions she helps people set small, realistic goals and follows their lead on pace and focus. Misty supports parents dealing with the strain of raising children and helps clients grieve losses while building self-love and healthier routines.
Approaches for online work and what they do
Misty commonly uses client-centered therapy to make sessions focused on each person’s needs. That approach emphasizes listening, respect, and following the client’s lead to decide goals and pacing. It is useful for building trust and clarifying what change would look like for someone.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. CBT helps people learn concrete strategies to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful behavior patterns. Motivational interviewing is used to support people who are weighing change, for example with addictions or health behaviors, by exploring readiness and building motivation from their own values.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose approaches that fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That collaboration continues as progress is reviewed and plans are adjusted.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video works well for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or messaging suits shorter check-ins or busy schedules. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Rhode Island
- Languages
- English