Denise Bunner

Denise Bunner is a licensed professional counselor in Pennsylvania with 27 years of clinical experience. She practices with a client-centered approach, inviting each person to share their unique story before choosing a therapeutic direction.

She listens with compassion and then reviews the key elements of a person’s experience alongside them. At times she asks challenging questions designed to help clients view themselves and their situations from a different perspective. Denise acknowledges that therapy can require effort and aims to support people as they work toward the best possible outcome.

While she provides recommendations about how long therapy might continue, the ultimate decision about duration is left to the client. Denise combines practical guidance with an emphasis on collaboration so clients feel they are moving toward meaningful change.

In response to recent broad changes in daily life, Denise has spent time seeking new strategies to help herself, her family, and her community adapt. Over the past five years she has explored alternative methods for addressing anxiety, depression, sadness, and grief. After reading Bessel van der Kolk’s book The Body Keeps the Score, she recognized the importance of addressing pain that can be stored in the body.

Denise completed the Eden Energy Medicine four-year program and now shares simple grounding and relaxation techniques drawn from that training. She often refers people to Donna Eden’s work for more detail and encourages those interested to consult Energy Medicine: Balancing Your Body’s Energies for Optimal Health, Joy, and Vitality and then contact her for guidance on integrating the practices into daily life.

She holds Pennsylvania licensure as a professional counselor, credential PC007638, and works with individuals on a range of concerns including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, anger management, depression, addictions, relationship and family conflicts, sleep difficulties, parenting challenges, self-esteem, bipolar disorder, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue.