Dr. Patrick Bell is a licensed psychologist (Louisiana, Saipan/CNMI, Oregon) 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. Immediately prior to his arrival at The Ballmer Institute, he had been one of three psychologist-owners of a group practice that conducted diagnostic psychological and psychoeducational evaluations, provided psychotherapy to children/families, and created and delivered professional training and/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. He is honored to now serve with the team at The Ballmer Institute as an assistant clinical professor as he transitions from an era of learning and practicing to one of supervising and teaching the new generation of behavioral health specialists.  

In his personal life, Dr. Bell enjoys Bikram and Vinyasa yoga, contemplative pursuits (reading Stoic or Buddhist texts, meditation, personal goal setting), weight training, and other health-span promoting activities. He strives to live an examined life with intentionality in balancing social, spiritual, physical, recreational, altruistic, and relaxational activities as well as trying to spend as much time in nature as possible. He is also always down for an early morning cup of coffee with or without deep philosophical conversation.