Bonnie Giles
Calm, practical support for life’s challenges
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Bonnie
Bonnie Giles is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience. She supports people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, mood disorders, and parenting concerns. Her tone is direct and compassionate, and she brings practical help to tough moments.
Bonnie uses straightforward, evidence-based methods to teach coping skills and build resilience. Sessions focus on real-world steps clients can use between meetings. She blends clinical knowledge with a faith-informed perspective when clients want that included.
Background and approach
Work often begins by identifying immediate needs and priorities. Bonnie helps people develop clearer thinking, better routines, and calmer responses to triggers. Over time she supports deeper processing of loss, trauma, or long-standing patterns.
She is licensed in California as an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Bonnie draws on three decades of practice to tailor each plan to the person in front of her. Her approach emphasizes what will make daily life more manageable.
Therapy can include short-term coaching and longer therapeutic work depending on goals. Bonnie aims to give tools for coping now while also addressing the harder, underlying issues. Her style is steady, practical, and respectful.
Evidence-Based Approaches and Online Care
Bonnie commonly uses evidence-based techniques that focus on practical change. One approach emphasizes skill-building for anxiety and mood management - teaching breathing, pacing, and activity strategies to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. Another approach centers on trauma-informed work that helps people process difficult memories safely and learn grounding tools to reduce reactivity.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. She works collaboratively with each person to choose methods that match goals, comfort level, and preferences. Together they adjust techniques over time so the work stays relevant and effective.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy routines, allow continuity when travel or relocation occurs, and offer flexible ways to stay connected between appointments. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and coaching to each format so clients can keep progressing from wherever they are.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
Next step
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