Bonnie Spallinger Farley

Bonnie Spallinger is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in the state of Indiana. She completed her graduate program from Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia in 2015. Bonnie has served with a community health provider for four and a half years and has experience working with families, women, men, adolescents, and children. Her expertise is working with adolescents and emerging adults struggling with trauma, decision making, life issues, and behavioral issues. She enjoys assisting parents in finding helpful methods to parent their children. Bonnie has experience in community health, college counseling centers, hospitals, and church settings.

Bonnie approaches therapy using Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Solution Focused Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing (MI) as the main methods to help produce positive outcomes. In the past, Bonnie has been an elementary and middle school teacher, has lived and worked at an international boarding school and co-parenting high school girls, served as a Resident Director at a small Christian college and has served as the Assistant Program Director at a Christian Camp for children between the ages of 7-18. Bonnie can assist individuals and families with depression, anxiety, behavioral issues, parenting issues, ADHD, self-harm, suicidal ideation, grief, substance use, and adjustment disorders. Bonnie strives to work with families and individuals in a collaborative way so they can achieve their goals.

In the first session, Bonnie will get to know you better through a series of questions to better understand your concerns, history, and desires for therapy.