About Mary
Dr. Mary Anne Gunter is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Arkansas who focuses on anxiety along with relationships, grief, parenting, and trauma. She draws on a mix of approaches to help people manage stress, improve connection, and move forward after loss or difficult events.
She uses attachment-based work to look at how close relationships shape feelings and behavior. She combines that with client-centered listening so people feel heard and understood.
Background and approach
Cognitive behavioral strategies are used to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new responses in day-to-day life. With eight years of clinical experience, she has worked with a wide range of concerns including anger, self-esteem, intimacy issues, and caregiving stress. Her additional focus areas include chronic illness, blended family challenges, and issues that come from family of origin patterns.
Dr. Gunter also offers coaching-style help for career transitions and goal-setting. Sessions are available through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Services are provided in English and limited to residents located in Arkansas per her practice location. Fees vary with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. Dr.
Gunter’s style centers on listening first, then working together to set practical steps. She helps people build small, realistic plans to manage anxiety, cope with life changes, and improve important relationships.
How attachment work and CBT translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how close relationships shape feelings and responses; online sessions let clients talk through relationship patterns and rehearse new ways of connecting. Client-Centered Therapy centers on being listened to without judgment, which can help people feel understood while they describe worries, parenting struggles, or grief. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets unhelpful thoughts and behaviors with concrete exercises and homework that can be reviewed during video or messaging sessions.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to current concerns, goals, and preferences, then together decide which methods to try first and how to adapt them over time. This gives people a chance to test what works without commitment to a single path.
Offering video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging adds flexibility for busy lives. Video calls are useful for deeper conversations and skill practice, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can serve as a quick check-in, and messaging lets people share thoughts between meetings. These options help fit therapy into work, caregiving, and daily routines while focusing on practical skills for anxiety, relationships, and life transitions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Arkansas, Arizona
- Languages
- English
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