About David
David Bonfanti is a licensed marriage and family therapist with two decades of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and life transitions. He speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
Background and approach
He aims to help clients feel more in control and more hopeful about the next chapter. He uses a direct style that looks at how people react to problems, not just the problems themselves.
Sessions often involve learning new ways to respond to difficult feelings and practicing skills that reduce overwhelm. This straightforward approach can feel challenging at first but is meant to build lasting coping tools.
Over 20 years in the field, he has worked with a wide range of concerns including addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, mood conditions like depression and bipolar, trauma and abuse, and stress-related problems such as compassion fatigue. He also supports people facing caregiving, aging, immigration, veteran-related, and other multicultural issues.
Therapy draws on several methods, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-focused work, cognitive behavioral techniques, motivational interviewing, and narrative approaches. These tools are used to help people clarify values, reduce unhelpful reactions, and rewrite difficult stories into more manageable ones.
David practices in California as an LMFT - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. Sessions are offered in English through video, phone, live chat, and text messaging, which lets people fit therapy into busy schedules.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people focus on what matters most to them and take committed steps toward those values, even when strong emotions arise. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical strategies to reduce unhelpful patterns like avoidance or rumination. It often targets symptoms of anxiety, depression, and eating or sleeping difficulties.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose and adapt methods based on their goals and preferences. That means trying tools, checking what helps, and shifting course together when a method doesn’t fit.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into daily life. Video is useful for full sessions and face-to-face conversation, phone calls can be a lower-bandwidth option, and messaging or live chat can work well for short check-ins or when someone needs flexible timing. These options aim to provide greater accessibility and convenience while keeping the focus on practical skill-building and meaningful progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California, Utah, Arizona
- Languages
- English