About

Hello! My name is Christi Bell. I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and I'm looking forward to working with you! I believe that the best therapy happens in partnership between the therapist and the client. My focus of clinical practice is working with teenagers and adults in the LGBTQIA2S+ community and survivors of trauma. I look forward to getting to know you better! My approach I believe in the power of stories to help us make sense of and make meaning in our lives. I use a combination of approaches that include narrative therapy, cognitive behavioral, and acceptance and commitment therapies. I also use the Trauma Resiliency Model (TRM) to help heal trauma and to find new meaning in client's lived experiences. My focus I enjoy working with adolescents and adults up to age 50 who have been diagnosed with depression, anxiety, panic disorder, bipolar disorder, body dysmorphia, and PTSD. I specialize in working with members of the LGBTQIA2S+ community and survivors of trauma. My communication style It is very important that my clients feel heard and seen. I work to co-create emotional safety in the therapeutic environment and no topic is off limits. I am gently direct, kind, and strengths-based. It takes courage to go to therapy and I work to honor that courage in all of my kindness through respect, care, compassion, and empathy. My journey to mental healthcare I have wanted to be a therapist since I was in elementary school. It's always been important to me to choose a career that is of service to people, to help support them through challenges, to celebrate victories, and to hold hope for them when they worry that hope may be lost. I am driven by the firm belief that we all have the capacity to heal and build the life of our dreams already inside of us. I believe now from my own mental health journey that we are not our diagnoses, we are not the worst thing we have ever done or the worst thing we have ever experienced.