Louise Bonanno

Louise Bonanno is a New York based LCSW who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and the upheaval of divorce and separation. She speaks plainly and aims to make therapy feel practical and doable for people who have already tried other options and still need help. Her approach focuses on finding clear steps that lead to change rather than more confusion.

With 32 years of experience, she draws on a mix of steady talk therapy and skills-based methods. Louise uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and dialectical skills to manage intense emotions. She also works from attachment-informed and client-centered perspectives to improve communication and connection in daily life.

Her background includes work in private practice and community mental health. She has experience supporting first responders and people dealing with trauma and compassion fatigue. That breadth helps her tailor sessions to practical problems like panic attacks, guilt, control issues, and isolation.

In sessions she aims to identify what matters most to each person and then build simple, doable steps toward those goals. She emphasizes learning skills to handle anger, anxiety, and stressful transitions. Louise also helps people explore self-compassion and repair patterns that keep them stuck.

People choose her when they want clear, experience-based guidance and conversation that focuses on real-life changes. She invites clients to work together to find answers and build new ways of being.

How her therapeutic methods adapt to online work

Louise often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on clarifying values and taking small actions toward them while accepting difficult thoughts. ACT can help when life transitions or relationship strain make decisions feel overwhelming. She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy ideas to look at patterns of connection and distance in relationships and how those patterns affect feelings and behavior.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which methods feel most helpful based on their goals and situation. That means trying a skills-based tool, a conversational approach, or a mix until something fits.

Practical benefits of online work include fitting sessions into a busy day and reducing travel time so therapy can be more consistent. Online sessions can make it easier to do brief check-ins between heavier meetings or to use audio-only if bandwidth is limited or a shorter conversation is needed. Because formats here are not specified in the biography, confirm current session options with the platform before booking so you know how sessions will be scheduled and delivered.