Therapist profile
Dr. Mary Anne Gunter, LPC
Arkansas
LPC in Arkansas - Relationships and Trauma
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- Credentials
- LPC
- License
- LPC, Arkansas / P2008070; LMFT, Arkansas / M2008012; LPC, Arizona / LPC-22480
- NPI
- 1033611835
- Experience
- 8 years
- Languages
- English
- Location
- Arkansas
About
- Attachment-based
- CBT strategies
- EMDR for trauma
About Mary
Dr. Mary Anne Gunter is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with eight years of clinical experience. She practices in Arkansas and works with adults on relationship, family, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting, stress, anxiety, and intimacy-related concerns.
She uses clear, practical methods in sessions. She listens to what matters to the client and helps identify steps to change patterns that leave the client putting others first. Conversations often focus on boundaries, communication problems, attachment concerns, and codependency-related dynamics.
Her background includes work with grief and loss, caregiving stress, blended family issues, and chronic illness. She also supports people dealing with career shifts, emptiness, and life transitions. When appropriate, she integrates approaches to address trauma, anger, and low self-esteem.
Dr. Gunter uses several clinical approaches to guide the work. She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships shape current patterns. Cognitive behavioral tools help people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also applies emotionally-focused work and EMDR for trauma-related distress when it fits the client's needs.
Practical problem-solving is part of her work. She helps clients set realistic goals and build step-by-step plans to reach them. Sessions can include coaching-style conversations about parenting, caregiving, and managing stress.
Clients should note she does not treat minors who cannot consent, serious mental illness, active suicidal or homicidal ideation, or certain diagnoses she lists as outside her practice. To begin, prospective clients follow the service's matching process and schedule a first session.
How sessions work
Therapeutic approaches used for online work
Attachment-based work looks at how early and close relationships shape current patterns in adult relationships. Online sessions using this approach help people notice how they cling, withdraw, or people-please and then practice different ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In remote sessions it helps people identify unhelpful thinking, test new behaviors, and build concrete skills for managing anxiety, stress, and low self-esteem. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) targets the emotions that underlie relationship patterns. When used online, EFT guides people to recognize painful feelings and try new ways of responding in close relationships. Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That choice can change as progress is made, and the clinician will explain options and reasons for each method. Confirm the exact session formats before scheduling because the biography does not list formats explicitly. Online work can make it easier to fit counseling into a busy day, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time so people can work around caregiving, job, or parenting schedules. The focus remains on practical skills and relationship patterns that can be worked on effectively in remote sessions.Areas of focus
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Experience
8+ years
Listed in
Arkansas, Arizona
Languages
English
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of relationship concerns does she address?
She works with relationship and intimacy-related issues, communication problems, commitment concerns, and codependency-style patterns.
How would she describe her therapeutic approach?
Her work combines attachment-based ideas, client-centered conversation, CBT techniques, emotionally-focused methods, and EMDR when trauma work is needed.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has eight years of experience as a practicing counselor and therapist working with adults on trauma, grief, parenting, and related concerns.
What are her credentials and where does she practice?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with licenses in Arizona and Arkansas and she practices from Arkansas.
Does she offer sessions in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not accepting international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
Confirm current session options before booking since formats are not specified in the biography.
How much do sessions cost?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I get started with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. A license can be checked with the state board.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are not safe at home, use the crisis and helpline numbers.