Patricia Bell , LISW, MD, LCSW-C

Patricia Bell is a licensed social worker practicing in Ohio. She holds LISW, MD, and LCSW-C credentials and has seven years of clinical experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, grief, and depression. She speaks English and offers care through a range of online formats.

Patricia aims to make sessions straightforward and down to earth. She creates a calm space where people can say what they’re feeling without judgment. Her style is practical and supportive, focusing on what matters most to each person in the room.

She uses methods that match the client’s goals, drawing from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral ideas, dialectical behavior tools, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused techniques. That lets her adapt to needs like coping with loss, addressing substance use, or managing persistent worry.

Patricia also helps with issues related to attachment, abandonment, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and life transitions such as divorce or aging. She pays attention to everyday challenges like communication problems, control struggles, and feelings of emptiness as part of the bigger picture.

In sessions she partners with clients to set clear, achievable goals and to practice skills between meetings. The plan evolves as people make progress and their priorities shift. Beginning therapy is framed as a step-by-step process rather than a single fix.

How Patricia's Approaches Work Online

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person's experience. The therapist follows the client’s lead, helping them name feelings and set goals that feel meaningful for their life. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts affect feelings and behavior and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, adds skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships by teaching tension-reduction and coping strategies.

Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to try first and adjust the plan as progress happens.

Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow full conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth or camera use is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging work well for quick check-ins or people who prefer writing. These formats help people access care with more flexibility and fewer scheduling barriers.