About Bonnie
Bonnie Lilly is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with eleven years of experience helping people handle hard life moments. She focuses on practical steps that make day-to-day life easier. Her style is calm and straightforward, and she aims to help people feel more grounded and able to cope.
She creates a warm, non-judgmental space for people to talk about worries like anxiety, depression, grief, and stress. Sessions often include exploring reactions in the body, building clear coping skills, and practicing ways to communicate more effectively.
Background and approach
Bonnie pays attention to how past experiences shape current patterns and decisions. Her work blends talking and somatic awareness, along with tools from cognitive and acceptance-based approaches. This combination helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, shift toward chosen values, and settle physical tension that keeps problems stuck.
The focus is on small, doable changes that add up over time. Bonnie also supports people facing relationship and family concerns, caregiver stress, and challenges linked to trauma, addiction, or separation. She helps with deeper issues such as codependency, abandonment fears, guilt, and shame by pairing emotional reflection with concrete practices.
Sessions are offered in English and are available through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Bonnie works with each person to set realistic goals and to find approaches that fit their life and needs.
How therapy approaches work online and in the body
Somatic-informed work encourages attention to physical sensations and nervous system responses. It helps people notice where stress lives in the body and learn gentle ways to shift tension, which can reduce reactivity and help with trauma, anxiety, and stress-related problems.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small steps toward them. It teaches simple practices for noticing thoughts without getting stuck and building actions that match what matters most, useful for depression, life transitions, and motivation struggles.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect present connections. It helps people understand their relational triggers and practice new ways of relating that feel safer and more satisfying.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. This is a collaborative process, and approaches are adjusted as needed based on progress and feedback.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to continue work between sessions. Licensed professionals can use these formats to teach somatic exercises, coach through values-based steps, and practice communication skills in ways that suit the client's routine.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English