About Carol
Dr. Carol Bunch is a licensed counselor with 25 years of clinical experience in North Carolina. She holds the Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor credential and the Licensed Professional Counselor credential.
Carol helps people manage anxiety, stress, addiction concerns, relationship pain, and grief through focused conversation and practical steps. She has worked in independent practice since 1999. Her work often touches on trauma and abuse, mood and depressive problems, intimacy challenges, anger, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing family conflict, divorce and separation, and issues tied to substance use and recovery. In sessions she uses straightforward methods that help people notice unhelpful thoughts, reconnect with emotions, and set manageable goals. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address thinking patterns and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to look at attachment and closeness in relationships.
Motivational Interviewing and Trauma-Focused Therapy inform her approach when people are ready to change or need trauma-focused strategies. Carol aims to make the work clear and practical. She helps clients identify one or two small steps they can try between sessions.
Conversations tend to be action-oriented but also allow space to process difficult feelings and past hurts. Her practice emphasizes partnership. She listens for what matters most to each person, then helps shape a plan that fits their life, values, and pace.
Online approaches and how they help
Dr. Bunch uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change thinking patterns that feed anxiety and low mood. CBT focuses on practical steps and experiments people can try between sessions to reduce worry and avoidant behavior.She also draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy to address connection and closeness in relationships. EFT helps people name emotions, understand attachment responses, and shift interaction patterns that cause repeated conflict or distance.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and the problems they bring. That might mean focusing first on coping skills, working through trauma material, or strengthening communication at home.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video is useful when visual cues matter, phone sessions can fit a quick check-in or lower bandwidth needs, and messaging or chat lets people touch base between live sessions. These options make it easier to keep regular appointments and try new skills in daily life.
Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does Dr. Bunch help with?
What is her therapeutic style like?
How much clinical experience does she have?
Where is Dr. Bunch licensed to practice?
Are sessions offered in other languages or to international clients?
What session formats are available?
How does payment and cost work?
How do I begin working with her?
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, Virginia, New Hampshire, Texas
- Languages
- English
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.