About Brandon
Brandon Bunker is a licensed counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship struggles, and questions about identity. He offers an affirming, down-to-earth presence for people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure how to move forward. His work centers on noticing how the body and emotions connect.
He uses somatic approaches to help people become aware of physical sensations that hold tension or pain. He also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-focused ideas to guide practical change.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and collaborative. Brandon listens first, then helps name patterns and options that feel doable. He mixes talk with gentle somatic awareness and concrete tools for coping and decision-making.
He holds professional licenses as an LCMHC and an LPC and brings 11 years of experience to his practice in Utah. Brandon supports people dealing with addictions, parenting stress, career pressures, intimacy issues, and family-of-origin concerns. People can expect focused work on communication, boundaries, and rebuilding safety in close relationships.
His style is straightforward, compassionate, and paced to each person’s needs. He aims to help people find clearer choices and more grounded ways of living.
How somatic and talk therapies work online
Somatic work pays attention to how the body holds stress and emotion. In an online session this means gently noticing breath, posture, muscle tension, and simple movement to help people become more aware and to reduce stuckness. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying values and taking small, committed steps toward what matters. It uses practical exercises to shift how people relate to difficult thoughts and feelings. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people build safer ways of connecting by identifying old patterns and trying new responses.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to see which methods fit their goals and comfort level. Together they try techniques, notice what helps, and adjust the plan as needed so therapy feels useful and manageable.
Online sessions can be held by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, offering flexibility for busy schedules. These options make it easier to meet from home, while keeping continuity when life is hectic. The range of formats lets people choose what feels most comfortable for talking, practicing somatic awareness, and following up between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- 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