About Bonnie
Bonnie Christensen is a licensed mental health counselor with 20 years of experience helping adults who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, and life changes. She focuses on practical ways to ease emotional strain and rebuild steadiness. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at people who have been the dependable one for too long and now feel burned out or disconnected.
Bonnie sees common concerns like persistent worry, low mood, grief, relationship patterns, and struggles with self-worth.
Background and approach
She also helps people facing caregiving strain, chronic illness or pain, body image worries, and issues tied to attachment and abandonment. Sessions center on understanding what’s happening and finding doable steps forward. Her work draws on several approaches including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and client-centered methods.
Bonnie mixes skills work with reflective conversation so clients learn new ways to respond to thoughts and feelings. She aims for therapy that feels respectful and tailored to each person. Bonnie practices in Florida as a Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor - LMHC.
She offers sessions in English and works through the common stresses of adult life, such as grief, relationship conflicts, and managing long-term responsibilities. Over two decades she has helped people regain clarity and a sense of control. Therapy begins by looking at current patterns and small, practical changes that can relieve pressure.
The pace is collaborative and depends on each person’s needs. Bonnie encourages honest talk, gradual progress, and rebuilding a life that feels more connected and manageable.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Bonnie uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that keep problems going. CBT is practical and often focuses on skills and short-term changes that reduce anxiety and low mood.She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), which helps people accept difficult feelings while clarifying personal values and taking meaningful action. ACT can be useful for stress, grief, and getting unstuck from avoidance patterns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Bonnie will talk with clients about their needs, goals, and preferences and then shape sessions around what seems most helpful. That collaborative process lets therapy shift if something isn’t working.
Online sessions are available by video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper exchanges, phone sessions can fit into a work break or require less bandwidth, live chat can support brief check-ins, and text messaging helps people who prefer shorter written contact. These options offer flexibility to match therapy to a person's schedule and way of communicating.
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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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