Dr. Mary Anne Gunter , LPC

Dr. Mary Anne Gunter is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with eight years of clinical experience. She focuses on relationship and family concerns and on issues that often affect women, including parenting stress, grief, and intimacy-related problems. She practices in Arkansas and offers sessions online by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.

Her work centers on helping people manage anxiety, anger, and life transitions. She also supports those coping with trauma, chronic illness, caregiving stress, and compassion fatigue. Sessions are practical and goal oriented, with time spent setting realistic next steps clients can try between meetings.

Dr. Gunter uses approaches that look at attachment patterns, emotions, and thoughts to help people understand their reactions. She draws from attachment-based work, emotionally focused methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, and trauma-focused tools when they fit a person's needs. She tailors strategies to fit each client's goals and life circumstances.

People who reach out can expect a direct, respectful style. She helps with communication problems, blended family issues, and separation or divorce planning. She also offers support for caregiving stress, aging and geriatric concerns, chronic pain and illness, and forgiveness work.

Her background includes work with grief and bereavement and with parenting challenges. Dr. Gunter helps clients set achievable goals and develops step-by-step plans to reach them. She practices in English and provides care to people located in Arkansas.

How attachment and emotion-focused approaches work online

Attachment-Based Therapy emphasizes how early relationship patterns shape current connections; online sessions help people notice those patterns and practice new ways of relating in real time. Client-Centered Therapy centers on listening and understanding from the therapist so clients can explore their feelings and make their own choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and then testing new actions to change how someone feels.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust plans together as progress is tracked. This collaborative approach helps match techniques to what the client prefers and needs.

Offering video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging gives practical flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversations and emotion work, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat can help with shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports brief updates or coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or health-related schedules while keeping the focus on the goals of treatment.