About Brandon
Brandon Bunker is a licensed counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship concerns. He frames therapy around identity and intimacy topics, and supports people exploring LGBTQ matters, parenting challenges, and addiction recovery. Brandon practices in Utah and brings 11 years of clinical experience to his work.
He takes a straightforward, supportive approach in sessions. Conversations focus on what matters most to the client and on small, practical steps that can ease daily life.
Background and approach
Brandon listens for patterns that keep problems stuck and helps people try different ways of handling difficult feelings and interactions. Brandon uses a mix of methods to match a person’s needs. He draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and set goals, and on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address unhelpful thinking and behavior.
Attachment-based and emotionally focused ideas guide work on closeness, trust, and communication. Sessions often include skill practice, role-playing communication, and grounded exercises for regulation after trauma. For intimacy and kink-related topics, Brandon offers a nonjudgmental space to talk through desires, boundaries, and safety.
He also supports people coping with caregiver strain, abandonment, or family-of-origin wounds. Brandon holds credentials as a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor and as a Licensed Professional Counselor. He offers a range of online session formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to availability.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Brandon often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. ACT is useful for anxiety, depression, and life changes when choices feel stalled.He also draws on Attachment-Based and Emotionally-Focused ideas to address closeness, trust, and communication. These approaches focus on how patterns from past relationships show up now and on practical ways to build more stable connection with others.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Brandon will talk with each person about goals and preferences and try methods that match those needs. If something isn’t working, he adapts the plan so sessions stay relevant and useful.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people work face to face without travel, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins during a break at work, and text-based messaging suits ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep continuity during transitions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Utah, Virginia
- Languages
- English