Psychology for Real-World Outcomes
Dr. Patrick Bell is a licensed psychologist with over 20 years’ experience working with youth and the adults in their lives within inpatient hospital settings, outpatient clinics, summer camps, and schools. His roles over those years have included classroom teacher, assistant principal, inpatient milieu therapist, school-based psychologist, and private practice owner and clinician. Dr. Bell conducts diagnostic psychological and psychoeducational evaluations, provides psychotherapy to adolescents and young adults (16-25 via telehealth/virtual sessions), and creates and delivers professional training or ongoing consultative services with community practitioners (e.g., schools/districts, camps, state leadership) on a variety of topics (e.g., from creating tiered social-emotional/behavioral programming in settings with limited resources and concentrated risks to conducting functional behavioral assessment to responding to signs of suicidal thinking). He earned his PhD in psychology from Tulane University (2015) and completed his predoctoral internship with a consortium involving clinical rotations at the Louisiana State University—Health Science Center and school-focused services with a New Orleans public school.
In his personal life, Dr. Bell enjoys the 26x2 yoga, contemplative pursuits, weight training, and other health-span promoting activities (being in nature, mindfulness). He strives to live an examined life with intentionality in balancing social, spiritual, physical, recreational, altruistic, and relaxational activities.
Patrick Bell, PhD
Licensed Psychologist