Naomia Bell, LCMHC

Naomia Bell is a trauma-focused clinician who brings a direct, compassionate approach to behavioral health. She emphasizes building trust and creating a space where people can share difficult material without concern about judgment. Her background includes roles as a special education teacher, guidance counselor, and utilization reviewer, and she has worked across both inpatient and outpatient settings. She has provided services to military populations since 2008 and has experience with a wide range of behavioral health diagnoses.

Naomia holds the LCMHC credential - Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor - and has advanced trauma training, including certification in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and accelerated resolution therapy (ART). Her training also includes work with moral injury, Motivational Interviewing, employee assistance program services, and short-term problem solving. She has applied ART and EMDR approaches to chronic pain and medical trauma, including intrauterine trauma, and developed additional expertise during Ph.D. studies focused on attunement and motivation therapies.

Her earlier career in special education and school counseling informs her work with children and adolescents, and she brings practical clinical skills to help with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, bipolar disorder, addictions, relationship and family concerns, eating and anger issues, self-esteem and career concerns, and other life adjustments. Naomia describes her work as grounded, experienced, and ready to address complex presentations with evidence-informed trauma-focused methods.