About Eden
Eden Bonsonto is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of experience. She brings calm and practical support to people facing trauma, grief, parenting challenges, stress, anxiety, and life changes. Eden offers online sessions by video, phone, live chat, and messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
She has worked across hospitals, schools, behavioral health settings, and independent practice. That background includes crisis intervention and peer support for Police, Fire, and EMS personnel.
How Eden works
Eden has also spent time assisting with special education needs and advocating for IEP and 504 plans. In sessions she treats each person as the expert on their own life. Eden combines strengths-based and solution-focused ideas with humanistic and cognitive behavioral approaches.
She adapts methods to match what the person finds most helpful rather than using a single fixed method. Her work often centers on trauma and grief, compassion fatigue, addiction concerns, mood disorders such as depression and bipolar, and relationship or communication problems. She also addresses issues around parenting, adoption and foster care, aging and caregiver stress, body image, and ADHD.
Eden aims for a direct yet respectful style. She listens, helps set clear goals, and offers tools people can try between sessions. Her goal is to help clients build skills so they can manage stress, improve relationships, and feel more steady in daily life.
What Eden works with
The areas below are the ones Eden selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online care
Evidence-based cognitive behavioral techniques focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking and behaving. This approach can help with anxiety, depression, coping skills, and managing mood swings.Humanistic methods emphasize listening, empathy, and helping people make choices that match their values. These methods are useful when someone wants to explore life changes, strengthen self-esteem, or clarify priorities.
Solution-focused and strengths-based work zeroes in on practical steps and existing resources a person can use right away. It is often helpful for goal setting, managing stress, and short-term problem solving.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to clarify goals, try different techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. Together they will choose methods that fit the client's needs, preferences, and daily life.
Online therapy offers flexibility and multiple ways to connect. Video calls let people work face-to-face from different locations. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a camera is not wanted. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for shorter check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, and easier scheduling around work or family commitments.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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