Bonnie Define, LPC

Bonnie Define is a Licensed Professional Counselor with more than two decades of experience helping people navigate relationship strain, grief, depression, anxiety, and major life changes. She practices from Missouri and draws on a long history of supporting people through caregiving stress, intimacy and attachment concerns, and challenges that come with aging and geriatric issues. Bonnie uses a calm, straightforward approach to help clients find clearer ways forward.

Bonnie trained at Florida Gulf Coast University and has worked in both inpatient and outpatient hospital settings, nonprofit agencies, and private practice. Her background includes many years supporting people through divorce, trauma, and crisis situations. She has also worked with clients who have significant mental health diagnoses and ongoing stress or compassion fatigue.

In sessions Bonnie aims to create a space where people can talk through what matters most. She favors practical strategies along with listening deeply to individual experience. That often means combining short-term goal work with attention to underlying patterns in relationships and mood.

She draws from client-centered methods to keep therapy focused on each person's priorities. Cognitive behavioral ideas are used to identify unhelpful thoughts and make small changes that add up. Mindfulness and solution-focused techniques help people build steady coping tools for daily life.

Bonnie’s style is patient and thoughtful. She helps people gain perspective, develop clearer communication, and rebuild routines that support wellbeing. If someone wants a quick conversation before committing, she invites a brief message to see if it feels like a good fit.

How Bonnie Uses Therapy Methods Online

Client-centered therapy focuses on the client’s goals and perspective. It means the therapist listens closely and helps people shape their own solutions, which can be useful for relationship concerns and life transitions.

Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. It helps people spot patterns, test out different ways of thinking, and build small, practical changes for depression, anxiety, and stress.

Mindfulness therapy brings attention to the present moment and simple exercises to reduce reactivity. It can support coping with ongoing stress, caregiving strain, and emotional overwhelm.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Bonnie will collaborate with each person to choose or combine methods that match their goals and comfort level. That decision is revisited as needs change.

If you are considering online therapy, check which session formats are currently offered before booking since formats were not listed in the biography. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. Therapists can also adapt exercises and homework to fit a client’s daily routine, helping people practice new skills between sessions.