About Bella
Bella Lurie is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) who focuses on grief, intimacy-related issues, self-esteem, career concerns, and ADHD. She speaks English, Hebrew, and Russian. Clients can expect clear, down-to-earth conversation and practical steps rather than jargon.
Lurie uses language-focused methods that help people notice patterns in how they talk about themselves. She invites clients to try new ways of speaking and acting to shift old habits. Sessions aim to make room for uncertainty and to build more flexible responses to stress and relationships.
Background and approach
Her approach draws on positive psychology ideas together with psychotherapeutic work about stories and meaning. That means she pays attention to the stories people tell about loss, identity, and purpose. She helps people untangle those stories so they can make different choices in work, relationships, and daily life.
Bella has six years of clinical experience as an LMFT in California. She meets people where they are and focuses on practical tools they can use between sessions. Therapy can include brief exercises, new communication strategies, and small experiments to test what feels different.
People seeking support for grief, struggles with intimacy, low self-worth, career transitions, or managing ADHD may find her conversational, language-centered style useful. Bella frames the work as a partnership, and she tailors interventions to each person’s needs and goals.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Language-centered psychotherapy emphasizes how people speak about their experiences. In plain terms, this approach helps clients notice repeating phrases, metaphors, or ways of naming problems and then try new ways of describing situations to shift feeling and behavior. It can be useful for grief, identity questions, and intimacy work.Positive psychology techniques focus on strengths, small changes, and building what works. That can mean brief exercises to increase positive moments, identify values, or practice new habits that support mood and motivation. These methods pair well with work on career goals and managing ADHD symptoms.
Choosing an approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. She adapts interventions over time and tests what helps in real life, so clients can shape the path rather than follow a fixed plan.
Online formats make this kind of work more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and demonstrations, phone sessions can be a shorter check-in when schedules are tight, and live chat or text messaging can support quick reflections or between-session coaching. These options help people fit therapy into busy days and try new communication habits in everyday settings.
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Also listed
- 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
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