About Guilaine
Guilaine Bell is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida who focuses on helping people steady their emotions and handle life’s hard moments. She brings 16 years of experience to sessions and speaks English and Haitian Creole. People come to her for help with stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, grief, parenting issues, and coping with big life changes.
Guilaine uses straightforward, practical methods to help clients feel more capable.
Background and approach
She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to look at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems stuck. Mindfulness practices are used to build calm and present-moment awareness in everyday life. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters most and take steps toward those values, even when emotions are strong.
For relationship concerns she incorporates ideas from the Gottman Method to strengthen communication and reduce conflict. Sessions are client-centered, meaning the person’s priorities guide the work. Guilaine focuses on teaching coping skills, improving communication, and creating small habits that add up over time.
She aims for clear, doable steps rather than vague goals. Therapy may include short-term strategies for immediate relief and longer-term work for deeper change. Her practical, steady approach is aimed at helping people manage panic attacks, heal from trauma, rebuild self-esteem, and find a clearer sense of purpose.
If someone wants to begin, they complete a brief matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to availability.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Guilaine often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people identify what matters to them and take manageable steps toward those values even when emotions are intense. ACT supports work on life changes, grief, and ongoing anxiety by linking actions to personal goals.She also relies on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thought patterns and test new behaviors. CBT is useful for panic attacks, social anxiety, and day-to-day stress because it gives clear tools to practice between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and will be decided together. The therapist works collaboratively to match methods to a person’s needs, goals, and preferences and adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. Video is good for full conversations and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and text messaging helps keep momentum between meetings. These options make therapy more flexible for work, family, and everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Maine
- Languages
- English, Haitian Creole