About Bonnie
Bonnie Christensen is a licensed mental health counselor with 20 years of experience helping people who feel worn down by long stretches of responsibility and worry. She focuses on practical steps to relieve anxiety, stress, low mood, and the exhaustion that comes from caring for others.
Her style is steady and down-to-earth, aimed at making therapy feel like a safe place to sort things out. Bonnie often meets people who have been the dependable one for years and now feel disconnected from themselves.
Background and approach
She helps them notice what they carry, understand how it built up, and find ways to lighten the load. Conversations in her sessions are plainspoken and goal-focused so progress is visible over time. Her work draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy.
These methods are used to identify unhelpful thinking patterns, build coping skills, and clarify what each person values. Bonnie also brings attachment-based ideas into sessions to address difficult relationship patterns and how they affect self-worth. Bonnie has supported people through grief, major life changes, caregiver strain, body image concerns, and chronic health issues.
She offers practical tools for managing panic, persistent worry, and low motivation while also working on long-standing patterns like codependency or control issues. Sessions move at a pace chosen by the client. Bonnie aims to help people feel steadier and more connected to their lives so they can make clearer choices about what comes next.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choosing actions that match what matters to you. It can help with persistent worry and low motivation by shifting attention toward valued goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, behaviors, and emotions interact and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is useful for anxiety, panic, and mood problems because it gives step-by-step tools for managing symptoms.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Bonnie will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they decide whether to emphasize ACT, CBT, attachment-focused work, or a mix so therapy fits the person rather than the other way around.
Online therapy offers several practical advantages. Video calls let the therapist and client see each other for deeper conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers voice only. Live chat and text-based messaging are good for brief check-ins, tools practice, or getting support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping a steady course of work on anxiety and stress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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