About Norma
Norma Bonet is a licensed clinical social worker with more than 25 years of experience helping people navigate family challenges, trauma, grief, and parenting concerns. She speaks English and Spanish and practices in Florida as an LCSW. Norma aims to make the first step feel manageable for someone facing a hard moment.
Norma uses a client-centered approach that keeps the person’s goals and values front and center. She also draws on solution-focused techniques to identify small practical steps that can lead to change.
Background and approach
For clients affected by abuse or traumatic events, Norma incorporates trauma-focused strategies to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. Sessions are conversational and straightforward. Norma listens closely, reflects what she hears, and works with people to build coping skills that fit their lives.
She pays attention to relationship patterns like attachment and abandonment concerns, and to stresses that come with caregiving or pregnancy and childbirth. Norma also supports people dealing with grief, social anxiety, isolation, and communication problems. Her work includes addressing post-traumatic stress and helping people consider forgiveness when it matters to them.
The emphasis is on practical tools that can be used between sessions. People meet with Norma by phone, video call, live chat, or text messaging. She asks questions to understand priorities, and then offers clear next steps so people can move forward at their own pace.
How Norma’s approaches translate to online therapy
Norma uses client-centered therapy to focus on each person’s goals and values. In practice this means sessions begin by listening carefully and letting the person set priorities. This approach helps with relationship concerns, parenting stress, and feelings of isolation.She also uses solution-focused therapy to find small, practical steps that create forward movement. These brief strategies are useful when someone wants concrete changes fast, such as improving communication or managing caregiver stress. For clients affected by abuse or traumatic events, trauma-focused therapy is used to address symptoms and teach coping skills that reduce distress and improve day-to-day functioning.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Norma will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and suggest which methods might help most. She adapts the plan over time so it stays relevant to what is working and what is not.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, and messaging works well for shorter check-ins or between-session support. These options aim to increase flexibility so people can connect in the way that fits them best.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also works with
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish