About Misty
Misty Faella is a licensed mental health counselor with 17 years of experience. She keeps sessions warm and interactive and focuses on practical help for everyday struggles. She uses a mix of approaches to meet each person's needs.
Misty listens first and adapts tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and client-centered work to address anxiety, stress, and depression. She also draws on motivational interviewing and psychodynamic ideas when it helps the conversation.
Background and approach
Misty has substantial experience supporting people affected by trauma, grief, and substance use histories. She has worked with children, adolescents, and adults, and has particular familiarity with concerns related to adoption and foster care. That background informs how she talks about loss, attachment, and behavioral changes.
Parents often seek her help for anger, impulsivity, and attention concerns like ADHD, and she approaches these issues with clear strategies and doable steps. Sessions include practical skills, behavioral plans, and conversations about the patterns that keep problems going. Her style aims to be respectful and nonjudgmental.
Misty treats each person as the expert on their life and works collaboratively to set goals. She invites people who are ready to make changes to begin with small steps and steady support.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
She commonly uses client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship so people can decide the pace and focus of work. This approach helps when someone needs a respectful space to talk through parenting, grief, or day-to-day stress.She also applies cognitive behavioral therapy, which breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches clear skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related planning and impulsivity, and mood changes.
Misty treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with each person about goals and preferences, try techniques that fit, and adjust the plan based on what works. That collaborative process helps match style and tools to a person’s situation.
Online sessions are offered by video call, by phone, via live chat, or with text-based messaging to give flexible options. Video is good when visual cues and conversation matter, phone works well when bandwidth is low or a quick check-in is needed, and chat or messaging can fit into busy days for shorter check-ins or step-by-step coaching. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or family routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Rhode Island
- Languages
- English
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