About Mary
Dr. Mary Anne Gunter is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Arkansas. She brings eight years of counseling experience and focuses on relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting strain, stress and anxiety, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem.
She uses attachment-based ideas to help people understand relationship patterns. She also draws on client-centered and cognitive behavioral techniques to help people set goals and practice new skills.
How Mary works
EMDR and Emotionally-Focused Therapy are part of her toolkit for trauma and relationship work. Her background includes an LPC credential and experience supporting people through life transitions such as divorce, career change, and caregiving stress. She has worked with blended family issues, family-of-origin concerns, and commitment or communication problems.
She also supports people coping with chronic illness, caregiver fatigue, and aging-related challenges. Therapy with her typically combines listening, practical goal-setting, and skills practice. She helps people identify patterns, set manageable steps, and try new ways of relating or coping.
For grief, she offers steady, respectful support without minimization. Sessions are available through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, a person selects the Start Therapy button, completes a short matching questionnaire, and schedules according to therapist availability.
Mary lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Mary works with
The areas below are the ones Mary selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Arkansas |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy helps people look at how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions using this approach focus on noticing those patterns, practicing new ways to connect, and building more stable bonds in current relationships.Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's own goals and experience. In online work this often means the therapist listens without judgment, reflects what is shared, and helps clients name their priorities and next steps.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts, feelings, and actions to find practical changes that reduce distress. Over video or phone, CBT can include homework, skill practice, and short behavioral experiments between sessions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, and then tailor the plan together. Clients often adjust methods as they learn what works best for their situation.
Online therapy offers flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for conversations that benefit from face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, ongoing support, and when written reflections help the process. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, caregiving, and other responsibilities.
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