Bernell Hornsby, LPC

Bernell Hornsby is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Michigan with 22 years of professional experience. She helps people with LGBT-related concerns, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, motivation, self-esteem, and confidence. Bernell frames therapy as a practical collaboration to address everyday struggles and clearer goals.

She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) alongside Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and attachment-based ideas to identify unhelpful thoughts and habits. Sessions focus on learning specific, repeatable skills that can be tried between meetings. That can include noticing patterns, testing new behaviors, and practicing ways to respond differently to stress or relationship strain.

Her approach treats the client as the expert on their own life. Discussion steers toward strengths people already have and small, concrete steps to build on them. Practical exercises and short take-home tasks are common parts of the work.

Over two decades of work in counseling means experience with a wide range of situations. That includes self-esteem struggles, recovery from past harm, and difficulty with closeness or trust. Bernell also addresses related concerns such as abandonment, attachment problems, body image, and life transitions.

Sessions aim to help people manage current problems and change unhelpful patterns. People who choose this approach should expect clear, action-focused conversations and homework they can use outside of sessions.

How Bernell’s approaches translate to online work