- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Attachment focus
About Gregory
Gregory "Greg" Dunford is an LCMHC (Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor) in Utah with 28 years of counseling experience. He works with stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy concerns, depression, and coping with life changes. Greg also lists focused areas such as attachment and abandonment issues, codependency, communication and control problems, forgiveness, and feelings of guilt and shame.
Greg uses practical, research-informed methods to help people talk through real problems. He draws on approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral strategies, dialectical behavior techniques, and attachment-focused work. Sessions emphasize concrete tools and skills people can try between meetings.
His background includes decades in education, running therapeutic programs, and leading addiction and grief groups. Those experiences inform how he supports people dealing with grief, fatherhood concerns, and the fallout from separation or betrayal. He describes his work as client-led, leaning toward solutions that fit an individual's life.
In sessions he often focuses on relationships of many kinds and on restoring a sense of agency after loss, hurt, or shame. He notes experience with sexual shame recovery and faith transitions as part of relationship and identity work. The practical aim is clearer communication, steadier emotion regulation, and more reliable daily habits.
Greg’s style favors straightforward conversation, skills practice, and exploring attachment patterns that shape behavior. He encourages people to notice what gets in the way of connection and to try small changes that make daily life more manageable and less dominated by guilt or self-blame.
How Greg uses evidence-based approaches online
Greg works with methods that focus on actions, thoughts, and attachment patterns. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck and identify values to guide small, meaningful steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and trying different behaviors to change mood and stress levels. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current ways of relating and aims to increase awareness of those patterns so people can try new interaction habits.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Greg will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That might mean combining elements from several approaches and adjusting the plan as the work progresses.
The biography does not specify which online session formats are used, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight, and reduce travel time. Therapists often adapt exercises, worksheets, and behavioral experiments for remote sessions so people can practice skills between meetings and track progress over time.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
28+ years
Listed in
Utah
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does he work with?
He works with stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy issues, depression, and coping with life changes. Additional focuses include attachment, codependency, forgiveness, and guilt and shame.
How does he approach feelings of guilt or shame?
He uses practical, research-informed methods like ACT, CBT, DBT, and attachment-based work to help people notice patterns and try concrete changes. The work emphasizes skills practice and real-life application.
How much clinical experience does he have?
He has 28 years of counseling and coaching experience across education, therapeutic programs, grief work, and addiction groups.
What are his credentials and where is he based?
He holds the LCMHC credential and practices in Utah. The listing shows UT LCMHC as the credential detail.
Can I work with him if I live outside the United States?
International clients are not currently accepted. Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are offered?
The original biography does not list specific session formats. Please confirm current session options before booking.
How does payment or cost work?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What are the steps to begin working together?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
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