Dr. Patricia Bell, LMHC
Florida · 15 years in practice
Dr. Patricia Bell is a licensed mental health counselor with a focus on helping people make meaning when life feels confusing or stuck.
License and registration
- LMHC, Florida
- MH17390 · expires March 2027
- NPI
- 1295195840 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 15
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Patricia
Dr. Patricia Bell is a licensed mental health counselor with a focus on helping people make meaning when life feels confusing or stuck. She draws on existential ideas alongside practical therapies to address anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and other concerns.
Clients can expect straightforward conversations and tools they can try between sessions. Dr. Bell practices from Florida and brings 15 years of experience to her work.
Her approach blends existential questions about purpose and choice with cognitive strategies that address unhelpful thinking.
Background and approach
She also uses acceptance and commitment techniques and attachment-informed ideas to help people change patterns that get in the way of closer relationships. Sessions aim to clarify values, reduce symptoms, and improve day-to-day coping. Dr.
Bell has worked with people facing a wide range of struggles. These include stress, trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, eating and body image concerns, and challenges related to parenting and caregiving. She also supports those navigating identity and LGBT issues, career shifts, chronic illness, and life transitions.
Her work is grounded in clear, practical steps. She helps people identify thought patterns, explore relationship dynamics, and try small behavioral shifts. Her counseling style is collaborative and goal-focused, while still attending to deeper questions about meaning and belonging.
People interested in remote care can connect through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Dr. Bell speaks English and is available to work with international clients through these online formats.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Patricia lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Patricia names
- Existential Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Existential therapy helps people face life questions about meaning, choice, and responsibility. It’s useful when someone feels stuck, uncertain, or disconnected from what matters to them. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on accepting difficult feelings while committing to actions that match personal values, which can reduce avoidance and increase meaningful action.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connections and reactions. Working from attachment ideas can help people improve communication, rebuild trust, and change recurring patterns in relationships. Dr. Bell uses these approaches together with cognitive techniques to tailor work to each person’s situation.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and will be collaborative. The therapist and client will discuss goals, preferences, and which methods feel most helpful. Sessions often mix question-based reflections about values with concrete exercises and practice tasks to use between meetings.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit daily life. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well for shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging can support quick reflections, reminders, or ongoing coaching-style contact between appointments.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does this therapist help with?
She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, eating and body image issues, parenting and caregiver stress, career changes, ADHD, and related issues.
What is her general therapy style?
Her style combines existential questioning about purpose with practical techniques from cognitive and acceptance-based approaches. Sessions balance exploring meaning with hands-on skills for coping and behavior change.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 15 years of experience in counseling and psychotherapy, working with a broad range of concerns across the lifespan.
What credentials does she hold and where is she based?
She is a Florida licensed mental health counselor, listed as LMHC, and practices from Florida.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the United States work with her?
International clients are accepted and may connect for sessions from other countries.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How are costs and scheduling handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist arrangements, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time; to begin, select the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire.
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