Dr. Mary Anne Gunter, LPC

Dr. Mary Anne Gunter is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Arkansas with eight years of clinical experience working with adults on relationship, family, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting, stress, anxiety, intimacy-related issues, anger, self-esteem, career transitions, and coping with life changes. She combines several evidence-informed methods - including Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), and EMDR - to tailor treatment to each person’s situation and goals. LPC stands for Licensed Professional Counselor, a credential indicating advanced training and state licensure to provide professional counseling services.

Her practice emphasizes practical goal-setting and collaborative planning, whether clients are navigating divorce and separation, blended-family and coparenting challenges, caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, codependency, communication and commitment concerns, or the emotional work of grief and loss. She has particular training and experience in trauma-focused approaches and in working with complex family systems, and she offers specialist support around parenting and stepfamily dynamics.

Dr. Gunter prefers to work with individual adult clients rather than couples or minors, and she does not treat bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder, addictions, autism spectrum conditions, eating disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, serious mental illness such as schizophrenia, or clients with active suicidal or homicidal ideation. To arrange appointments she asks clients to coordinate directly with her so scheduling reflects current availability and is handled on a first-come, first-serve basis.