About Bonnie
Bonnie McClurd is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Georgia with ten years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical support for everyday struggles and helps people find clearer steps forward. Bonnie welcomes honest conversations and values each person's strengths when starting work together.
Bonnie helps people manage stress and anxiety and cope with addictions. She also addresses relationship and family concerns, grief, depression, and trauma and abuse. Intimacy-related issues, self-esteem, parenting pressures, sleep and eating problems, and work stress are among other areas she supports.
How Bonnie works
Her approach centers on the person in the room. She uses client-centered methods that let the client's goals lead the work. Cognitive behavioral techniques are offered when thoughts and habits are getting in the way of change.
Emotionally focused tools help people name and shift painful feelings in close connections. Bonnie brings a practical mindset to sessions. She works with clients on short-term solutions when that is helpful, and on deeper meaning when people want it.
Sessions are conversational and goal-directed, mixing problem solving with attention to emotions. Bonnie also pays attention to less obvious stresses like caregiver strain, compassion fatigue, chronic illness and body image concerns. She includes support for people navigating ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and complex life transitions.
Her style is steady, respectful, and focused on helping people take the next right step.
Bonnie lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Georgia |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's priorities and strengths, offering a supportive space to talk through what matters most and set clear goals. It is useful for stress, self-esteem, and family or relationship concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns, which can help with anxiety, depression, sleep, and addictive behaviors. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and name strong emotions in close relationships and learn new ways to respond, making it relevant for intimacy and relationship concerns.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Bonnie collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That choice can change over time as needs shift, and she adjusts the plan together with the client.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let people send notes or updates between sessions and fit therapy into busy schedules. These options make it easier to keep regular contact and try different formats to see what works best.
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A practical next step
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