LORI BELL
Owner Renaissance Mental Health, MBA, LCSW, CCTP, CAIMHP
LORI BELL is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, and Certified Addiction-Informed Mental Health Professional with an MBA in finance and a twenty-year career in banking before she became a therapist. She founded Renaissance Mental Health in Houston, where she works with adolescents and adults healing from trauma, abuse, addiction, grief, and relational damage — including survivors of abusive relationships, veterans, and first responders.
She uses an eclectic, evidence-based approach including EMDR, the Flash Technique, CBT, DBT, mindfulness, and parts and memory work, and serves clients in Texas and Kansas.
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May 9, 2026
Life After Dating Alley Cats, Marrying & Divorcing a Cheater, and 14 Years Married to an Autistic Cop
Lori Bell was conceived when her father got drunk at a traveling circus, wrestled an anteater, got fired, and was dropped off in the next city — Kansas City, where he wandered into the unemployment office where her mother worked. Her dad was a third-generation Italian Vietnam veteran with PTSD and an eighth-grade education, and her mother was a Midwest farm girl with abandonment issues. Lori grew up in the chaos that followed — kicked-in walls, constant fighting, and a father who eventually disa...
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