About Bernell
Bernell Hornsby is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Michigan with 22 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people navigate LGBT-related concerns, trauma and abuse, intimacy issues, self-esteem, and major life changes. Bernell approaches work with respect for each person's story and strengths.
She centers sessions on what the client brings, using practical tools to address daily struggles. Treatment often includes talking through patterns that harm relationships, building confidence, and learning ways to cope after trauma.
Background and approach
Bernell uses straightforward strategies so people can try changes between sessions. Her approach draws from cognitive behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thoughts and from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and take meaningful action. Attachment-based ideas help when connection and trust are at the core of the problem.
Emotionally-focused and client-centered methods guide how feelings get named and held in the room. Across 22 years, she has worked with a range of concerns such as abandonment, body image struggles, codependency, communication problems, and caregiving stress. She also addresses topics like kink and alternative sexual culture as they relate to intimacy and boundaries.
Sessions aim to make progress in real life, not just in conversation. Bernell speaks English and provides remote session formats that fit different schedules. She invites people to take a first step, name a goal, and try practical changes that fit their daily life.
Using evidence-based approaches in online care
Bernell frequently draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people name their values and take small steps toward them. ACT focuses on noticing thoughts without getting stuck and choosing actions that match what matters most, which can help with motivation and life transitions.She also uses Attachment-Based Therapy to address patterns that show up in relationships. This approach looks at how early connection styles affect trust and closeness now, and it helps people practice different ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is another common tool she uses to identify unhelpful thoughts and try concrete behavior changes that reduce distress.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals, try methods that fit the problem, and adjust as needed. Clients and therapist work together to test strategies and pick what actually improves daily life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for emotional work, phone sessions can fit shorter check-ins or lower bandwidth, and messaging or chat supports quick reflections or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other routines while keeping the focus on progress.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English