Bonny Flowers
Compassionate counsellor blending listening with practical tools
About Bonny
Bonny Flowers uses a person-centred approach to help people manage stress, anxiety and relationship concerns. She combines practical strategies and open listening to support people who are coping with grief, low self-esteem, addiction and life changes. Bonny is a BACP counsellor with 23 years of experience based in the United Kingdom.
In sessions she focuses on creating a calm, non-judgemental space where thoughts and emotions can be said out loud.
Background and approach
Conversations are straightforward and paced to suit each person. Practical tools such as elements of cognitive behavioural work and solution-focused steps are offered when they fit the client’s goals. Bonny also uses psychodynamic ideas to look at repeated patterns that cause distress.
Motivational interviewing techniques are drawn on to help people become clearer about change and to find their own reasons to move forward. These approaches are chosen to match what someone needs rather than following a fixed plan. She has worked with a wide range of concerns over two decades, including depression, trauma and intimacy issues.
Bonny helps people address practical problems too, such as sleeping or eating difficulties and challenges around parenting or careers. Her work aims to balance understanding past experiences with building helpful routines in the present. People who come to Bonny often want a conversational style that still leads to change.
She encourages small, achievable steps and checks progress regularly. The goal is to make therapy useful and manageable for everyday life.
What Bonny works with
How Bonny works
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Sessions & fees
How counselling approaches work online
Client-centred therapy is built around empathetic listening and understanding. The therapist follows the person’s lead, helping them speak honestly and make sense of their feelings, which can be useful for anxiety, grief and self-esteem concerns.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small behavioural experiments. It often helps with symptoms of depression, anxiety, sleep and eating difficulties by giving clear steps to try between sessions.
Motivational interviewing is a conversational method that helps people find their own reasons to change. It can be useful for addictions, commitment issues or when someone feels stuck and unsure how to begin moving forward.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to choose methods that match the person’s needs, goals and preferences. Choices are reviewed as therapy progresses so the plan can be adjusted together.
Online formats such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging make fitting therapy around daily life easier. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone sessions need less bandwidth, live chat can suit shorter check-ins and messaging lets people reflect in their own time. These options give flexibility for different schedules and communication styles while keeping the focus on practical progress.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
