About Bonnie
Bonnie Fagan offers a client-centered approach that centers each session on the person in front of her. She begins by listening to what matters most and uses practical tools to help people move through stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, relationship concerns, and life transitions.
Background and approach
Bonnie is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, practicing in California with 12 years of experience. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice unhelpful thinking and try new actions.
Solution-focused methods help identify small, doable steps that create change. Existential ideas invite reflection about meaning, purpose, and values during major life shifts.
Bonnie has worked with people managing grief, trauma and abuse recovery, postpartum and pregnancy-related concerns, and workplace stress. She also supports those dealing with body image, social anxiety, communication problems, and questions about life purpose and career direction.
Sessions aim to balance practical skills with attention to emotions. Her style is collaborative and straightforward.
She uses motivational interviewing to help clarify goals and build motivation for change. Therapy sessions may include skill practice, real-life experiments, and problem-solving between meetings.
People often seek her help for parenting questions, divorce and separation adjustments, and troubles within family roles. She also accompanies young adults and college students as they navigate relationship and career decisions.
Bonnie conducts sessions in English and practices throughout California.
Approach-focused online therapy that fits your life
Bonnie uses client-centered therapy to place your concerns and goals at the center of each session. That means she starts by listening, reflects what she hears, and helps you name priorities so work is practical and relevant. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is also a key part of her work; it focuses on identifying patterns of thinking and behavior and trying simple experiments to test new ways of responding.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Bonnie treats the selection of methods as collaborative - she will talk through options, try techniques, and adjust based on what helps you reach your goals and feels most comfortable.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video lets you have a full conversation with visual cues. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat or text messaging can be useful for short check-ins, skill practice, or when typing feels more manageable. These options help fit therapy into work, parenting, school, or other routines while keeping the focus on what will help you move forward.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Life purpose
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English