About Bonnie
Bonnie Fagan is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) in California who focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, and major life transitions. She offers a calm, person-centered approach that aims to make therapy feel practical and manageable for worried parents and busy adults. In sessions she listens closely and helps clients name what matters most to them.
Bonnie blends Client-Centered Therapy with practical techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and solution-focused work.
Background and approach
That mix is used to tackle things like anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, and relationship strain. She has 12 years of clinical experience supporting people through loss, trauma, and changes in family roles. She also works with maternal wellness concerns, postpartum depression, and people adjusting to new career or life directions.
Her background includes work with individuals from diverse backgrounds who need help coping and rebuilding routines. Bonnie uses simple, concrete tools so clients can see small changes between sessions. She draws on Motivational Interviewing to clarify goals, and existential ideas to help people reflect on purpose and values.
Sessions are conversational and focused on what will help most right now. Therapy is offered in English and delivered through a mix of video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging. Bonnie aims to help people find clearer next steps, steadier self-esteem, and more confidence handling family and work demands.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening without judgment and helping people clarify their values and goals. This approach helps those feeling stuck in parenting roles, relationships, or life transitions by making space to name what matters and decide next steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for managing anxiety, social phobia, and everyday stress by breaking problems into small, doable steps and trying new strategies between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of working together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that match their goals, whether that means short-term solution-focused work or deeper existential conversations about purpose and meaning.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quick check-ins, and texting allows brief ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy family and work routines while using the approaches described above.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Life purpose
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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