About Alissa
Alissa Bell is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 13 years of clinical experience who supports people managing stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. She helps clients work through parenting strain, addiction concerns, trauma and abuse, and the ups and downs of mood disorders. Her approach aims to build practical skills and steadier day-to-day coping.
Alissa uses straightforward conversation to learn what matters most to each person. She draws on client-centered methods to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space.
Background and approach
From there she brings in tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy when they fit the situation. Sessions focus on clear goals and small, doable steps. Alissa helps clients recognize unhelpful thinking, practice new ways of reacting under stress, and strengthen communication patterns.
She also addresses attachment, body image, and issues that come up with blended families and caregiving demands. Her work includes motivational interviewing to support change and narrative therapy to reframe difficult experiences. That mix helps people who struggle with addiction, codependency, anger, or compassion fatigue.
She also supports people living with ADHD or bipolar symptoms as they learn practical strategies. Alissa began her career as a high school English teacher and kept the same skill for listening and explaining. She practices in Georgia as an LPC and offers sessions in English.
She describes therapy as a partnership and helps clients move toward clearer choices and steadier daily routines.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting back what matters to the client. It helps people feel heard and clarify their priorities so they can set realistic goals and choose next steps. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It offers practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking and build better coping skills for anxiety, depression, and stress. Dialectical behavior therapy, often called DBT, teaches skills for managing strong emotions, improving relationships, and handling crisis moments. It can be helpful for anger, mood instability, and stress that feels overwhelming. Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to match methods to their goals and preferences, adjusting techniques as progress is made. Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between meetings.Questions people ask
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English