Bonita Zammit

Bonita Zammit is a BACP counsellor who brings 14 years of practice to her work. She offers a calm, person-centred way of talking that helps people make sense of difficult relationships and feelings. Her style is steady and approachable, and she aims to create a non-judgemental space where people feel listened to.

Bonita trained to Advanced Diploma level and completed an Integrative Counselling qualification in 2007. She has worked in a range of settings including a women’s centre supporting survivors of domestic abuse, a GP centre, a prison, and private practice. She also co-facilitates the Freedom Programme, a 12 week course about understanding abuse and its effects.

Her practice focuses on relationship and intimacy concerns, family and parenting questions, stress and anxiety, mood difficulties including depression and bipolar, and issues such as addiction, trauma, eating and sleeping problems. Additional areas of focus include abandonment, attachment issues, codependency, domestic violence, shame, hoarding, isolation and loneliness, and sexual assault and abuse.

Bonita leans on approaches such as Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centred Therapy, and Psychodynamic Therapy to guide sessions. She combines these perspectives with a phenomenological outlook that values each person’s lived experience. Sessions aim to promote greater self-understanding and more helpful ways of relating.

She has continued professional development through courses, reading and volunteer work. People who come to her can expect a steady, respectful presence and a focus on practical change alongside emotional healing.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships shape current patterns. In sessions this looks like mapping connection styles and noticing how they affect close relationships, which can help with abandonment, attachment difficulties and intimacy problems.

Client-Centred Therapy places the person’s experience at the heart of the work. The therapist listens without judgement, follows the client’s pace, and helps people find their own answers to stress, anxiety and relationship concerns.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals and preferences and decide collaboratively which ideas and techniques to use. This can change over time as needs shift.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into everyday life, for example by avoiding travel or fitting a meeting into a work break. Bonita has experience working online and by telephone, though you should confirm which session formats are currently offered before booking. Online sessions can support ongoing work on relationships, loneliness and trauma while allowing sessions to be scheduled around day-to-day commitments.