Gregory "Greg" Dunford , LCMHC

Gregory "Greg" Dunford, LCMHC (Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor), brings 28 years of counseling and coaching experience to his work with individuals and relationships. He combines a compassionate, trauma-informed, and client-led stance with practical, research-based tools to help people explore self-discovery, healing, and personal growth. He emphasizes helping clients become more conscious, integrated, and autonomous both personally and within their relationships.

Greg applies a range of therapeutic approaches tailored to each person, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Jungian-informed work, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, mindfulness practices, solution-focused strategies, and trauma-focused methods. He has specialized training in areas such as sexual addiction and betrayal trauma and holds certifications including ART (Accelerated Resolution Therapy), HeartMath, DBT, CBT, Trauma Healing work with Bessel van der Kolk, Addiction Recovery Therapy, and Betrayal Trauma Therapy.

He focuses on relationship and intimacy-related concerns across many forms of partnership - dating, pre-marital, marriage, consensual non-monogamy, family, friendships, and workplace relationships - and provides support for stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and coping with life changes. Additional areas of attention include abandonment and attachment issues, avoidant personality tendencies, body image, codependency, commitment and control issues, communication difficulties, divorce and separation, feelings of emptiness, fatherhood challenges, forgiveness, guilt and shame, impulsivity, and somatic regulation.

Greg draws on a wide range of life and professional experiences that inform his empathy and clinical perspective. He was a high school teacher for 20 years, ran residential programs for adolescents, operated a family bakery and deli, and has led addiction and recovery groups for more than a decade. Personal experiences - including a long marriage, raising six children, the loss of his oldest son, and navigating family mental health and faith transitions - have contributed to his understanding of grief, recovery, and relational complexity.

Outside of his clinical work, Greg enjoys outdoor activities such as hiking, mountain biking, boating, horseback riding, and pickleball. He has lived and worked in several places including Israel, Hawaii, Alaska, and Mexico, and he brings those diverse experiences into a grounded, empathetic approach to therapy and education.