Christy Bell, LPC

Christy Bell is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Georgia with 12 years of experience. She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem, parenting strain, addiction, anger, and related concerns. She also supports work and career stress, intimacy and relationship worries, ADHD, and issues linked to attachment and abandonment.

Christy uses practical, evidence-informed methods in sessions. She leans on Client-Centered approaches to listen and reflect what matters most to each person. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and develop new habits. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are part of her toolbox for emotion regulation and reducing reactivity.

Sessions are conversational and down-to-earth. She brings everyday examples and sometimes playful cultural tools, like tabletop role-playing or story characters, to help people understand patterns and practice new responses. People can expect clear feedback, skill practice, and check-ins on what helps between sessions.

Christy affirms LGBT identities and attends to concerns that arise from discrimination or social stress. She addresses complex histories including trauma, dissociation, and co-occurring substance issues with practical coping strategies and paced exploration. Her work includes coaching elements when clients want focused, goal-oriented support.

Her approach mixes short-term skills work with deeper reflective work depending on the person's goals. To begin, people complete a brief matching questionnaire and schedule an initial meeting to set priorities and plan next steps.

Therapeutic approaches and working online