About Patricia
Dr. Patricia Bell brings a practical, cognitive-based approach to counseling. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with 15 years of experience.
She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy concerns, depression, and addiction. Her style is straightforward and goal-focused so clients can see clear steps forward. Dr.
Bell often uses Cognitive Behavioral strategies to identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
Background and approach
She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based ideas when those fit a person’s situation. Sessions emphasize skills that can be used between meetings, like coping tools for anxiety and techniques for improving communication. She has worked with a wide range of life issues including grief, trauma and abuse, eating concerns, parenting stress, and career challenges.
Dr. Bell also addresses topics such as codependency, body image, chronic illness, and caregiving strain. Her background supports work on mood conditions including bipolar disorder and on impulse-related concerns such as anger and substance use.
Dr. Bell aims to create a space where people can talk through hard topics and practice practical changes. She helps clients set realistic goals, try new behaviors, and track what works.
The emphasis is on useful tools and steady progress rather than quick fixes. She offers sessions in English and works with international clients as well. Prospective clients choose a start option, complete a brief matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions based on availability.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Dr. Bell blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in ways that adapt well to online formats. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors; online sessions can teach thought records, activity plans, and behavior experiments that clients practice between meetings. ACT encourages noticing thoughts and choosing actions that reflect personal values; in remote work this can mean guided exercises and value-based assignments to do between sessions.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked in the past to decide which methods to emphasize. Clients and the therapist check progress together and adjust strategies over time so the work fits the person’s life.
Online therapy offers flexible access to care through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging. Video allows face-to-face interaction for skills practice and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick check-ins, shorter updates, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and different time zones.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- 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