About Louise
Louise Bonanno is a licensed clinical social worker with over three decades of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, or the aftereffects of trauma. Her style is practical and direct, aimed at finding clearer paths forward when everyday coping strategies aren’t enough.
In sessions she listens for the problems that matter most to each person. She helps people reduce panic symptoms, manage anger, and navigate the strain that comes from caregiver or first responder roles.
Background and approach
She also supports work on relationship stresses, communication patterns, and feelings of isolation or shame. Her approach blends acceptance strategies, mindfulness skills, and emotionally focused work on attachment and relationship patterns. She uses client-centered conversation to help people name what they want to change.
When needed she brings in techniques from dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills. Louise has practiced in New York across community mental health and personal settings. She has worked with crisis debriefing for first responders and has a long history helping people through divorce, control issues, and grief tied to guilt or forgiveness.
Her LCSW credential stands for Licensed Clinical Social Worker. People who come to her can expect focused, step-by-step guidance and concrete tools to try between sessions. She aims to help people find relief from panic and anxiety and to rebuild steadier routines and relationships.
Approaches that translate well to online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small actions that line up with what matters. It helps with anxiety, avoidance, and getting stuck in unhelpful thinking patterns. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationship patterns shape reactions to stress and closeness, and it can help people change how they connect and communicate.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and day-to-day life. Together they’ll try techniques, review what helps, and adjust the plan based on what feels useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, skill practice, or when someone prefers written communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue support between in-person commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 32 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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