Bonita Zammit, BACP

Bonita Zammit is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with 14 years of professional experience supporting adults through a wide range of life challenges. She trained as an Integrative Counsellor in 2007 and holds an Advanced Diploma; she is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), the professional body for counsellors and psychotherapists in the UK. Bonita has worked across diverse settings including a women’s centre where she counsels survivors of domestic abuse, a GP centre, a prison, and in private practice, bringing experience of both one-to-one and group work.

Her practice spans face-to-face, online, and telephone sessions, and she accepts international clients. Bonita’s clinical interests include relationship and family difficulties, intimacy-related concerns, coping with life changes, stress and anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, eating and sleeping problems, parenting, self-esteem, career issues, bipolar and depression. She also addresses additional areas such as abandonment and attachment issues, blended family challenges, codependency, domestic violence, guilt and shame, hoarding, isolation and loneliness, jealousy, narcissism, self-love, and sexual assault and abuse.

Bonita describes counselling as a collaborative journey and values phenomenological and person-centred approaches that promote trust, security and therapeutic progress. She has co-facilitated the Freedom Programme, a 12-week course that helps women understand the dynamics and effects of abuse, and continues professional development through courses, reading and voluntary work. Bonita aims to offer a consistent, non-judgemental space where awareness and healing can develop.

Therapeutic approaches and online support

Bonita often draws on Attachment-Based Therapy and Client-Centred Therapy to guide her work. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and can help with issues such as abandonment, attachment difficulties, intimacy problems and relationship distress. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on empathic listening and the client’s own resources, helping people build self-understanding, self-esteem and emotional resilience.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Bonita works collaboratively with clients to identify which methods best match their needs, goals and preferences. Together they explore what feels most helpful, adapting the work over time as the client makes progress.

Online therapy formats - including video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging - offer practical flexibility for people balancing family, work or mobility constraints. These options make regular sessions more accessible and allow clients to engage in therapy from familiar surroundings while maintaining continuity of care with registered professionals and therapists.