Bonnie Giles, LCSW

Bonnie Giles is a California-based licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 30 years of experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, bipolar symptoms, and the effects of trauma and abuse. She also supports those wrestling with relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, career decisions, and questions about life purpose. Bonnie includes compassion for LGBT clients and veterans and armed forces issues in her scope of care.

Bonnie uses a direct and compassionate style in sessions. She combines faith-informed perspectives with evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people build coping skills and resilience. Sessions focus on practical steps - understanding patterns, learning tools to manage intense feelings, and setting goals that fit everyday life.

Her background includes work with caregiver stress, aging and geriatric concerns, hospice and end-of-life counseling, and postpartum depression. She brings experience addressing dissociation, impulsivity, and mood disorders. That experience shapes how she tailors support to each person’s situation.

Bonnie works to help clients increase self-understanding and restore hope. She emphasizes concrete strategies for communication, forgiveness, and managing guilt and shame. In sessions she talks through problems, practices skills, and sets manageable goals together.

People who reach out can expect a steady, respectful approach that balances frank conversation with compassion. Her long career in California informs her familiarity with complex life transitions and challenges related to caregiving and veteran concerns.

Approaches that guide online care

Bonnie integrates evidence-based therapeutic techniques that aim to clarify problems and build skills. One common approach she uses focuses on identifying thought and behavior patterns, then practicing small, practical changes to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms. This method helps people gain tools to manage daily stress and mood swings.

She also works with trauma-informed strategies that emphasize safety, pacing, and grounding skills. These techniques help people cope with intense memories, dissociation, or panic by teaching ways to stay present and tolerate difficult feelings a bit at a time.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Bonnie will collaborate with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences. That process may include trying different techniques and adjusting the plan as progress and challenges appear.

The profile does not specify which online session formats are used, so please confirm available formats before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules demand it. It can also let people work on skills from wherever they spend their day while keeping appointments consistent with real-life routines.