About Patricia
Dr. Patricia Bell is a licensed mental health counselor with 15 years of clinical experience. She blends practical talk therapy with clear tools to help people manage anxiety, stress, relationship concerns, mood struggles, and other life challenges.
Her style is direct and supportive, and she aims to make each session feel focused and useful. Patricia uses cognitive approaches at her core, helping people notice and change unhelpful thinking patterns. She also draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to help people clarify their values and take steps toward them.
Background and approach
Attachment-based work informs how she looks at relationship patterns and intimacy concerns. Clients can expect straightforward skill-building alongside space to talk through difficult feelings. Sessions often include exercises to reduce worry, improve communication, or manage strong emotions.
She also addresses issues such as grief, addiction, caregiving stress, body image, and challenges related to ADHD and chronic illness. Her background includes a Doctor of Psychology in counseling and many years treating a wide range of concerns across the lifespan. Patricia has worked with people facing trauma, mood disorders, and life transitions and brings that experience into each appointment.
She provides care in Florida and works with English-speaking clients, including people outside the United States. People seeking help begin by answering a short matching questionnaire and then scheduling sessions that fit their calendar.
Therapeutic approaches that travel with you
Dr. Bell often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that keep problems going. CBT is hands-on and focuses on practical exercises that reduce worry, lift mood, and change routines that cause trouble.She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people notice thoughts without being driven by them and to take action toward what matters most. ACT can be useful for anxiety, stress, and adjusting to life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy informs how she looks at relationship patterns, helping people understand and change how they connect with others.
Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk about different methods, try techniques, and adjust based on what feels helpful. The goal is to match methods to the client's needs, goals, and preferences rather than use one fixed plan.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for in-depth sessions and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and texting lets people send short updates between meetings. These options make it easier to fit care into busy schedules, handle caregiving demands, or keep consistent contact when travel or distance would otherwise get in the way.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
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
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