Dr. Mary Anne Gunter, LPC

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Narrative-focused counselor for relationship and life change

Details

Name	Dr. Mary Anne Gunter
Credentials	LPC
Based in	Arkansas
Licensed in	Arkansas, Arizona
Session format	Online
Languages	English
Years in practice	8

About Mary

Dr. Mary Anne Gunter is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who brings eight years of counseling experience to people navigating relationship stress, grief, parenting questions, trauma, and anxiety. She works from a narrative perspective and focuses on helping clients rewrite unhelpful stories about themselves and their relationships.

Her plain, direct style aims to make sessions practical and understandable. She uses approaches that center clients' experiences. That means asking what matters to the person in front of her, and then shaping goals together.

Background and approach

Sessions often look like talking through recent problems, identifying repeating patterns, and testing small changes between visits. Mary Anne draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early bonds affect current relationships. She also uses client-centered techniques to keep conversations focused on the client's priorities.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are used when needed to challenge unhelpful thinking and practice new behaviors. People come to her for a wide range of concerns including family conflict, intimacy issues, anger, self-esteem problems, career stress, compassion fatigue, and attention-related challenges. She also works with issues that come up later in life such as aging and caregiver stress.

Her approach is practical and goal-oriented, often including homework or brief skill practice. Sessions are offered to residents of Arkansas and are conducted in English. She explains credentials clearly and helps clients understand the steps to begin counseling.

The focus is on steady progress and on creating workable plans that fit real life.

What this therapist works with

Her listing names Relationship issues, Family conflicts, Trauma and abuse among the things Mary works with, alongside the areas below.

Approaches listed

Narrative Therapy: Named in her listing among her approaches.
Attachment-Based Therapy: Listed by Mary among the ways she works.
Client-Centered Therapy: Listed by Mary among the ways she works.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Listed by Mary among the ways she works.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT): Listed by Mary among the ways she works.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): Listed by Mary among the ways she works.
Gottman Method: Listed by Mary among the ways she works.
Mindfulness Therapy: Listed by Mary among the ways she works.
Motivational Interviewing: Listed by Mary among the ways she works.
Solution-Focused Therapy: Listed by Mary among the ways she works.
Trauma-Focused Therapy: Listed by Mary among the ways she works.
Training stated: This directory copies the approaches a therapist names and does not check training records. Ask Mary directly how much of the work is narrative and what a session usually looks like.

Narrative Therapy in this listing

Narrative Therapy appears in this therapist's own list of approaches. That tells you it is part of how she works. It does not tell you how much of a session it shapes, and this directory does not check or rate training.

If a narrative approach is what you are looking for, it is worth asking Mary directly how she uses it and what a session usually looks like.

Online session options

How narrative and attachment approaches work online

Dr. Mary Anne uses Narrative Therapy to help clients reframe the stories they tell about themselves and their relationships. That approach looks for alternative narratives and steps clients can take to shift repeated patterns or old labels. Attachment-Based Therapy is used to identify how past bonds affect current interactions and to build more supported ways of relating. Client-Centered Therapy keeps the conversation focused on the client's priorities and lived experience, with the therapist following the client's lead and reflecting what matters most.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. She treats the choice of method as collaborative and will adjust techniques based on the client's goals and preferences. Together they decide whether to focus on stories, relationship patterns, or practical thinking skills in session work.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit daily life. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls require less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day, live chat works for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between scheduled sessions. These options aim to make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, parenting, and other responsibilities.

Common questions about this listing

What kinds of concerns does she address?

She helps people with relationship and family struggles, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting, stress, anxiety, intimacy and anger issues, self-esteem, career changes, compassion fatigue, and ADHD-related challenges.

How would you describe her therapy style?

Her style is narrative and client-centered with practical tools from attachment work and CBT when helpful. Sessions focus on your story, patterns that repeat, and small changes you can try between visits.

What is her clinical background and experience?

She has eight years of professional counseling experience and uses a mix of narrative, attachment-based, client-centered, CBT, and emotionally-focused approaches to guide therapy.

What credentials and location are listed?

She holds the LPC credential and is licensed as an Arizona LPC and an Arkansas LPC. Her practice is based in Arkansas.

Which languages and international arrangements are supported?

Sessions are offered in English. She does not work with international clients outside the stated licensing areas.

What session formats are available?

She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.

How does billing and cost work?

Session costs vary with location and therapist availability and use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with her?

Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.

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