About Bonnie
Bonnie Fagan is a licensed marriage and family therapist who focuses on helping people through life transitions, relationship stress, and parenting challenges. She uses straightforward, person-centered care to help clients make decisions and build coping skills. Bonnie keeps sessions practical and compassionate so people can try new ways of handling difficult moments.
She blends Client-Centered Therapy with cognitive behavioral tools to spot unhelpful thoughts and try small experiments that change daily life.
How Bonnie works
Motivational Interviewing helps when someone feels stuck and wants to find their own reasons to change. Solution-Focused methods are used to set clear, short-term goals and notice progress between sessions. Bonnie has 12 years of clinical experience working with people facing anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and postpartum concerns.
She also supports those dealing with workplace stress, body image, and identity questions common in young adulthood. Her background includes helping parents manage difficult child behaviors and navigate separation or divorce stressors. In sessions she emphasizes practical steps and plain language.
Conversations often include skill-building, reflection, and planning that clients can apply right away. She encourages clients to try brief tools between sessions and then review what worked and what did not. Bonnie practices in California as a CA LMFT.
Sessions are offered in English and delivered online through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. The approach is collaborative and tailored to each person’s goals and life situation.
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What Bonnie works with
The areas below are the ones Bonnie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Life purpose
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How Bonnie's Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's own goals and experiences, with the therapist listening closely and reflecting what matters most. This approach helps people who want empathy, clarity, and a space to sort feelings before taking action.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or CBT focuses on spotting thinking patterns that lead to anxiety or low mood and testing practical changes. It is useful for stress, depression, social anxiety, and habit changes because it breaks problems into specific thoughts and behaviors to work on together.
Motivational Interviewing helps when someone feels stuck or unsure about making changes. It uses guided conversation to uncover personal motivations and set small, realistic next steps that feel doable.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and messaging supports short reflections between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and different routines.
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