About Brandon
Brandon Bunker is a licensed counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. He works with clients dealing with trauma, addiction, parenting strain, intimacy questions, and challenges tied to identity and self-worth. Brandon brings 11 years of clinical experience to each session.
He aims to make sessions straightforward and practical. Brandon listens closely and helps people name what matters to them. Together they set small goals and try out ways to cope that fit daily life.
Background and approach
Brandon often uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thought patterns. He also draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values and take doable action. Attachment-informed work and emotionally focused ideas guide conversations about closeness and trust.
Sessions tend to include direct skill-building, reflective conversation, and planning for real-world practice. Brandon supports people working through family of origin issues, codependency, abandonment wounds, and career stress without using jargon. He also addresses topics such as kink and alternative sex culture with respect.
Brandon holds LCMHC (Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor) and LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor) credentials and practices in Utah. He offers several online session formats so clients can choose what fits their schedules and needs.
How Brandon’s approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and making changes when life feels stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thought and behavior patterns that keep problems going and practicing different responses in daily life. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and coping skills. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current closeness and communication, which can support work on intimacy, trust, and family issues.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each client about goals and preferences, then try techniques that fit the person. Sessions are collaborative and can shift methods as progress and needs change.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video lets people use visual cues for relational work, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat can support brief check-ins or journaling between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and other commitments while using the methods described above.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Utah, Virginia
- Languages
- English
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