- CBT methods
- DBT skills
- Attachment focus
About Fonda
Fonda Cormier is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in California with ten years of experience. She works with people coping with stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, low self-esteem, and depression. She also helps clients dealing with feelings of guilt and shame.
Fonda trained at California State University Dominguez Hills and began her career as a children’s social worker. Her background includes more than a decade in mental health work, and she has supported people living with HIV/AIDS and members of the LGBTQ+ community.
In sessions she uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques, including Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Structured Family Therapy, and ideas from attachment theory. She draws on these methods to address mood disorders, panic, obsessive-compulsive concerns, and relationship difficulties.
She pays attention to cultural factors when understanding a person’s difficulties. Fonda focuses on improving communication, reducing isolation and social anxiety, and helping people process hard emotions such as guilt, shame, and grief around separation or loss.
Her approach is practical and relational. She helps people work through life transitions, midlife questions, caregiver stress, and issues around abandonment or attachment. The work aims to strengthen coping skills and everyday interactions rather than promise a fixed outcome.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online work
Fonda uses several well-known clinical methods in her telehealth practice. Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-world experiments, which can reduce worry and improve mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete skills for regulating intense emotions and improving distress tolerance, useful for panic, impulsivity, and overwhelming shame.She also draws on attachment-informed ideas that look at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and feelings of abandonment. Together these approaches give tools for clearer communication and for naming painful emotions rather than avoiding them. Deciding which methods to use is a collaborative process: the therapist and client review needs, goals, and preferences and adjust the plan as they go.
The biography indicates Fonda works via a telehealth platform, so confirm the exact session formats before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when a full hour is not needed. It can also let people use video or audio options depending on bandwidth, and supports carrying new skills into daily life between appointments.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
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Experience
10+ years
Listed in
California
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, relationship and family issues, self-esteem struggles, and depression, and also addresses guilt and shame.
How would she approach feelings of shame or guilt?
She uses evidence-based techniques to help people name and process difficult emotions and to build practical coping skills.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has ten years of experience working in mental health, including time as a children’s social worker and ongoing clinical practice.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is an LMFT licensed in California and practices from that state.
Can I work with her if I live outside the United States?
She does not accept international clients at this time and conducts work within the United States.
What session formats are available?
The original biography notes use of a telehealth platform; confirm current session options before booking to know which formats are offered.
How are fees handled?
Cost varies by location and sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What do I do to begin?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger or thinking about harming yourself, use the crisis numbers.