About Bella
Bella Lurie offers support for grief, intimacy-related concerns, self-esteem struggles, career transitions, and ADHD. She helps people name what’s happening, notice patterns, and try new ways of relating to themselves and others.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear, simple steps people can use between meetings. Bella is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California, listed as LMFT.
Her approach invites curiosity about personal language and the stories people tell. She draws on ideas from positive psychology to widen how clients see their daily choices.
That can mean experimenting with how words shape feelings or practicing small shifts in how someone talks to themselves. Bella pays attention to how life history and symbols show up in everyday moments.
She talks with clients about the narratives that formed during hard times and how those stories still influence reactions now. This can help people handle grief, manage caregiving stress, or face anxiety around intimacy.
Sessions are practical and explorative. Clients might try new phrases, rehearsal exercises, or brief behavioral experiments between appointments.
The aim is to build comfort with uncertainty and more ease in speaking about difficult emotions. With six years of clinical experience, Bella works in California and meets with people in English, Hebrew, and Russian.
She offers multiple online formats so clients can pick what fits their schedules and needs.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Bella often draws on positive psychology techniques that focus on strengths and small, practical shifts in day-to-day behavior; these methods help people notice and use what already goes well to reduce distress. She also works with language-focused practices that examine how words shape feelings and relationships, helping clients try new ways of talking to themselves and others to change emotional responses.Finding the right approach is a team effort. Bella will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level, and she adjusts strategies as progress is made. That collaborative process helps clients feel involved in shaping their own treatment plan.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins and ongoing reflection easier to fit into a busy day. These options make it simpler to keep continuity between sessions and practice new skills in real time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Hebrew, Russian