About Marissa
Marissa Bell is a licensed professional counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and problems with sleep or eating. She supports those coping with trauma, anger, low self-esteem, addictions, and life transitions. Marissa also works with concerns around intimacy, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and LGBT-related issues.
She uses a conversational, respectful style and adapts sessions to each person's needs. Sessions are collaborative - clients set goals and Marissa helps craft practical steps toward them.
Background and approach
Her approach focuses on clear strategies you can try between meetings. Marissa draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and build new habits. She uses Solution-Focused Therapy to set short-term goals and find what already works in a person's life.
Client-Centered Therapy guides the pace of work, keeping the client's priorities front and center. Her experience includes work with first responder concerns, gender dysphoria, hospice and end-of-life counseling, and non-monogamous relationship dynamics. Marissa brings three years of clinical practice as a Texas LPC.
People can expect straightforward sessions that balance practical tools with time to talk. She tailors plans for coping skills, relapse prevention for addictions, and managing intense emotions. The tone is warm but task-focused, aimed at helping people make measurable change.
How these approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the client's lead. The therapist creates space for people to tell their story and sets the pace based on the person's needs, which can help when someone is processing trauma, grief, or identity questions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. In online sessions this often means identifying unhelpful thinking, testing new behaviors, and assigning short practical exercises to try between meetings to reduce anxiety or depression. Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options, try methods that match the client's goals, and adjust plans over time. Clients help shape which techniques feel useful and which to change. Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules or limited mobility. Video calls let people work face to face when that helps, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quicker check-in, and text messaging supports ongoing brief coordination or journaling between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or unpredictable routines.Questions people ask
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English