About Christy
Christy Bell is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) practicing in Georgia who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and low self-esteem. She focuses on practical skills that make day-to-day life easier. Her style is straightforward and affirming, aimed at people who want to feel more stable and stay moving forward.
Christy uses several therapy methods to meet different needs. She draws on client-centered work to build a trusting relationship and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
Background and approach
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are needed. She often blends approaches to create short-term tools and longer-term insight. Sessions may include skills practice, thought records, and discussion of patterns that repeat in relationships or work.
She also incorporates creative exercises from popular culture and role-play when that helps a person learn new skills faster. Christy emphasizes collaboration and clear goals. She supports people who are dealing with addiction, career strain, parenting concerns, compassion fatigue, ADHD, intimacy-related issues, and identity questions.
She also works with issues such as attachment wounds, abandonment, codependency, and forgiveness. Her background includes 12 years in the field as an LPC. People who choose her often want a therapist who mixes practical coping strategies with deeper psychological insight and a relaxed, nonjudgmental manner.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online work
Christy blends client-centered work and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people make changes that matter. Client-centered Therapy focuses on a nonjudgmental, empathetic relationship so people can talk through their concerns and feel heard. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical tools to break unhelpful patterns and ease symptoms like anxiety or low mood.She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills when strong emotions or self-destructive patterns are present. DBT offers concrete strategies for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal effectiveness, which can be practiced between sessions and brought back for review.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Christy will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences. She checks in about what helps and adjusts the plan over time so the therapy stays useful and relevant.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video lets you use visual cues for deeper conversation, phone can be helpful when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging allow quick check-ins and ongoing skill practice. These options make it easier to keep consistent work on skills and progress without reorganizing a whole day.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English