About Bonnie
Bonnie Define is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 24 years in the field. She helps people who are dealing with anxiety, depression, relationship strain, grief, and major life changes. Her approach tends to be calm and straightforward, aimed at making therapy useful in everyday life.
She has worked in inpatient and outpatient hospital settings, nonprofit agencies, and independent practice. That range gives her experience with both immediate crises and longer-term healing.
Background and approach
Bonnie has supported people through divorce, trauma, caregiving stress, and chronic emotional strain. In sessions she focuses on clear goals and practical steps. She uses techniques that help clients notice patterns, reframe unhelpful thoughts, and build coping skills.
She also draws on mindfulness strategies to help with stress and emotional regulation. Bonnie emphasizes collaboration and respect. She listens first, then helps people set attainable goals they can use outside sessions.
The work is paced to match each person’s needs and energy. She holds an LPC credential and practices in Missouri. Bonnie offers phone and video sessions as well as live chat and text-based messaging, which can make ongoing support easier to fit into a busy life.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Support
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on creating a respectful, nonjudgmental space where the therapist follows the client’s lead and helps them clarify their own goals and values. This approach is useful for relationship concerns, self-esteem issues, and decision-making work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts influence feelings and behavior and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress management.Bonnie uses these approaches to help people find what works for them. Figuring out the right mix of methods is collaborative. She will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then adapt techniques so they fit the client’s daily life and pace.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers flexibility. Video calls are close to in-person sessions and work well for in-depth conversations. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into a lunch break. Live chat or text-based messaging can be used for quick check-ins, short coaching moments, or when typing feels easier than talking. These formats make it simpler to keep momentum between sessions and to make therapy part of a busy schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Florida, Arizona
- Languages
- English
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