About Louise
Louise Bonanno greets people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or exhausted. She listens closely and helps clients find clear steps to reduce stress and manage anxiety. Her approach aims to restore calm and make daily life feel more manageable.
Louise is a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - based in New York with 32 years of practice experience. She has worked in both independent practice and community mental health settings.
Background and approach
She knows many people come to therapy after trying other options and brings a straightforward, practical style to each session. Her work focuses on common but painful problems like relationship strain, trauma and abuse, anger, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses attachment issues, communication problems, control struggles, and the emotional fallout from divorce and separation.
First responder issues are part of her experience as well. Therapy sessions often mix mindfulness skills, acceptance-based strategies, and client-centered conversation to build insight and usable coping tools. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used when people need emotion regulation and distress tolerance techniques.
Sessions are aimed at helping people make small changes that add up over time. Louise emphasizes collaboration and clear goals. She helps clients identify what matters most and practices exercises together so new ways of being become part of everyday life.
Practical problem solving and steady support are central to her style.
Approaches that fit online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small, meaningful steps toward them while learning to accept difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help people who feel stuck by offering practical ways to move forward despite anxiety or fear.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and emotional reactions. It helps people understand relational needs and build healthier ways of relating to others and themselves.
Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to choose which methods to try based on their goals and preferences. They often combine approaches and adjust techniques as therapy progresses so the plan stays relevant to what the client needs.
Online formats offer straightforward benefits for this work. Video calls let clinicians observe facial expression and tone for richer conversations. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins and skills practice easy between sessions. These options increase flexibility and help therapy fit into busy lives.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 32 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English