About Bonnie
Bonnie Giles is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience helping people cope with stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, mood concerns, and life changes. She offers straightforward, compassionate care aimed at practical change and clearer thinking. Bonnie writes plainly and listens closely to understand what matters most to each person.
Her work often focuses on mood and anxiety disorders, posttraumatic stress, bipolar disorder, ADHD, postpartum depression, and the complicated feelings that follow loss.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing caregiving strain, aging concerns, and transitions in purpose or career. Intimacy, relationship strain, parenting pressures, and self-esteem issues are part of her practice as well. Bonnie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people build coping skills, manage symptoms, and find clearer direction.
Sessions tend to be goal-focused and practical, with space for reflection and deeper processing when it helps. She draws on faith-informed values when a client wants that perspective included. She practices in California and brings three decades of clinical experience to each case.
Bonnie aims to create a calm, steady presence so people can try new ways of thinking and behaving. Her style is direct but warm, with an emphasis on tools that can be used between sessions. Clients who choose her can expect concrete strategies for managing panic, grief, anger, and dissociation, along with coaching around career, life purpose, and communication.
Communication is in English and she also accepts international clients for online work.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Bonnie draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on symptom management and skill building. One common approach she uses teaches practical coping skills for anxiety and panic, like breathing and grounding exercises plus step-by-step exposure to feared situations to reduce avoidance. Another technique emphasizes structured problem-solving and mood management strategies to stabilize mood, address depression, and support people with bipolar disorder.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Bonnie works with each person to identify goals, tries methods that fit the client’s needs, and adjusts the plan as progress and preferences become clear. She combines skill practice with space to process trauma or grief when that feels necessary.
Online therapy with her includes video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video lets people use face-to-face conversation for deeper work. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text allow for ongoing support between live sessions and can fit into busy days or work breaks. These options offer flexibility so therapy can fit real life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English