Bonnie Giles

Bonnie Giles is an LCSW in California with 30 years of clinical experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, trauma, and major life transitions. She offers straightforward, compassionate care with attention to practical coping skills and hope. Bonnie uses a faith-informed stance when clients wish to include it in sessions.

She draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage mood disorders, panic, bipolar challenges, and trauma-related symptoms. Sessions focus on building resilience, recognizing patterns that get in the way, and developing clear steps for coping and recovery. Bonnie also supports those dealing with caregiver strain, aging and geriatric concerns, and hospice and end-of-life counseling topics.

Bonnie has long experience working with veterans and people facing identity and relationship questions, including LGBT concerns, intimacy issues, parenting stress, and career-related strain. She attends to dissociation, impulsivity, and complex grief with practical tools and paced work that suits each person’s needs. Expect direct feedback balanced with empathy.

Her approach emphasizes collaboration and respect for each person’s values and goals. Bonnie helps people set realistic aims, practice new skills, and notice progress between sessions. She can integrate faith perspectives when clients want that included.

Clients come away with clearer steps for daily coping, renewed purpose, and stronger emotional tools. To begin, people follow the site’s Start Therapy flow and complete a short matching questionnaire to schedule with the therapist.

Approaches that guide online care

Bonnie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional understanding. One common approach she draws on involves structured strategies to manage anxiety and panic - teaching breathing and grounding skills, breaking problems into small steps, and building routines that reduce overwhelm. These techniques help people regain steadier daily functioning and reduce intense symptoms.

Another important focus is trauma-informed work that helps people understand and process difficult memories at a manageable pace. That approach combines pacing, skill-building for emotion regulation, and careful attention to triggers, which supports recovery from posttraumatic stress and dissociation without rushing the process.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Bonnie collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and values. Together they try strategies, notice what helps, and adjust the plan over time so therapy fits the client rather than the other way around.

Because this profile does not list specific session formats, please confirm which online options are available before scheduling. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, avoid travel time, and maintain continuity during life changes. They also allow for shorter check-ins when that better suits a person’s schedule.