About Bonnie
Bonnie Christensen is a licensed mental health counselor with 20 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who feel worn out from carrying too much responsibility. Her work centers on stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship patterns, and low self-worth.
Bonnie listens without judgment and helps people name what’s most stressful in their lives. She uses straightforward strategies to reduce worry, manage strong emotions, and rebuild confidence. Sessions aim to be practical and respectful of each person’s pace.
Background and approach
Her background includes two decades of supporting adults through life transitions and caregiving strain. That experience has shaped a calm, down-to-earth approach that values small steady changes. She draws on evidence-based methods to guide conversations and skill-building.
Therapy often begins with making sense of what has become overwhelming and identifying realistic steps forward. Bonnie helps clients untangle difficult relationship patterns and cope with loss or major change. The goal is to help people feel steadier and more connected to their lives again.
She combines techniques from cognitive behavioral work, acceptance-oriented practices, and client-centered listening. Mindfulness and emotion regulation skills are used when they fit someone’s goals. Bonnie emphasizes collaboration, so treatment plans reflect each person’s needs and values.
Online approaches that help when life feels overwhelming
Bonnie often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online sessions. ACT focuses on noticing painful thoughts and choosing actions that match what matters to you, which helps with persistent worry and life transitions. CBT looks at unhelpful thinking and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety and lift mood, useful for depression and busy minds.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Bonnie will talk with each person about goals and preferences, and together they decide which methods to try. Therapy is a collaborative process that adapts as needs change over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care flexible. Video lets people work face-to-face for full conversations. Phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text messaging suit quick check-ins, shorter exchanges, or times when typing feels easier. These options help people fit therapy into workdays, caregiving schedules, or times when leaving home is difficult.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- 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