Bonnie Define
Understanding, practical support for life changes
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed in
- Missouri, Florida, Arizona
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Bonnie
Bonnie Define is a Licensed Professional Counselor with more than two decades in the field. She focuses on relationship strains, grief, intimacy challenges, depression, anxiety, stress, parenting pressures, and the ripple effects of trauma and abuse. Her approach is practical and direct, aimed at helping people feel steadier and more in control of daily life.
She draws on straightforward therapy methods to help people talk through problems, learn new coping skills, and make small changes that add up.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to be collaborative and paced to each person's needs. Bonnie uses clear, down-to-earth language so conversations stay useful and focused. Bonnie trained in counseling and has practiced since 2001.
Her background includes work in inpatient and outpatient hospital settings, nonprofit agencies, and independent practice. That mix gives her experience with both shorter-term challenges and longer-standing difficulties. In sessions she listens for what matters most and helps set manageable goals.
Techniques may include skill-building for stress and mood, problem-solving around relationships, and trauma-informed methods when past events are affecting daily life. The aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes. Bonnie is licensed as an LPC.
She is based in Missouri and works in English. Her style suits people who want clear guidance, emotional support, and practical tools to cope with change and heal from painful experiences.
How Bonnie's Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. The therapist reflects what she hears, helps people clarify their goals, and supports self-directed change. This approach is helpful when someone needs a safe space to make sense of difficult feelings.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. Bonnie may help identify unhelpful thinking patterns and teach practical skills to change them. This method often helps with anxiety, depression, and stress by giving tools to manage daily reactions.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Bonnie works with clients to choose or combine methods that match their goals and comfort level. She checks in and adjusts the plan over time so sessions stay useful and relevant.
Online sessions can make therapy more flexible. Video calls let people talk face to face from home, while phone sessions remove the need for video. Live chat and text-based messaging offer short, written exchanges for check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options allow scheduling around busy lives and can make regular progress more achievable.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Florida, Arizona
- Languages
- English
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