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Online therapist

Bonnie McClurd

Calm guidance for family and life challenges

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Credentials
LPC
Experience
10 years
Licensed in
Georgia
Languages
English
Format
Online sessions

About Bonnie

Bonnie McClurd is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Georgia with ten years of clinical experience. She focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside a broad range of issues like stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship and family conflicts, and grief. Bonnie emphasizes that each person knows their own story and brings strengths into the work.

She writes plainly and encourages people who take the first step toward help. Bonnie uses a respectful, down-to-earth style in sessions.

Background and approach

She listens first, then helps people notice patterns that get in the way. Practical tools and simple experiments between sessions are common parts of her approach. That might look like trying a new way to talk with a partner or testing a small habit change to improve sleep.

Her training includes several therapeutic methods that guide how she structures sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify thinking patterns that fuel anxiety or low mood. Emotionally-Focused Therapy supports people in naming and working through difficult emotions in relationships.

Client-Centered Therapy keeps the work focused on each person’s priorities and pace. Bonnie often helps people facing life transitions, parenting stresses, and challenges with self-esteem or coping skills. She also brings experience addressing trauma, compassion fatigue, and issues related to sexuality and attachment.

Language of work is English and sessions are provided online in several formats. Her practice invites collaboration: she partners with clients to set goals and try changes that fit their lives. Simple steps and steady momentum are central to how she helps people move forward.

Therapeutic approaches and how they translate to online care

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and supporting each person at their own pace. It emphasizes the client’s goals and strengths, and online sessions let the therapist follow what matters most to the client in real time.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and then practice small, manageable changes. In remote work that can mean reviewing thought records together on a video call or trying brief exercises via text between sessions.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy, EFT, helps people identify and make sense of strong emotions in relationships. Online formats can support this work through guided conversations and focused exercises that help partners or family members notice and shift emotional patterns.

Choosing an approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with clients to figure out which method or combination fits their needs, goals, and comfort level. That conversation guides how sessions are structured and what to try first.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility: video calls for deeper conversation, phone sessions when a camera is not convenient, and live chat or text messaging for shorter check-ins or coaching between meetings. These options make it easier to fit sessions into parenting schedules, work hours, and life transitions while keeping the focus on steady progress.

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.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)

Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does Bonnie address?
She works with stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship and family conflicts, grief, parenting challenges, and many related concerns such as sleep, eating, and self-esteem.
What is Bonnie's therapeutic style like?
Her style is down-to-earth and collaborative. She listens first, then offers practical tools and small experiments to try between sessions.
How long has Bonnie been practicing?
Bonnie has ten years of professional work experience in counseling and related clinical settings.
What credential does she hold and where is she located?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, licensed in Georgia with license number GA LPC LPC013241.
Which languages are used in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Sessions may be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin therapy with Bonnie?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.

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Experience
10 years
Licensed
Georgia
Languages
English

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