Thomas Grady Bunch

About Thomas Grady Bunch

Thomas “Grady” Bunch is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in the state of Virginia. He has been involved in mental health and human services for the past 15 years, working with a varied population base and a wide range of mental health issues, including trauma, depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, and addiction disorders. Work settings have also varied, including long-term residential settings, emergency room/hospital settings, and local community services boards.

Since retiring from the City of Virginia Beach in 2021, he has been seeing clients for virtual individual therapy appointments only. His therapy style includes CBT techniques in terms of challenging belief systems that clearly aren’t working, but he’s a humanist at heart—relying on techniques from Narrative and Gestalt therapies and leaning heavily toward an Existential approach to counseling. Grady firmly believes that the client, rather than himself, is the “expert” about their own life and their potential for self-actualization, and he endeavors to help clients discover hidden potential that may have been hijacked by life’s trials and extended difficulties.

Grady’s Master’s degree from Capella University was in Addictions Counseling, predominantly focusing on the mental health aspect of addictive behaviors. His Bachelor’s degree from Old Dominion University was in Interdisciplinary Studies with an emphasis on Work and Professional Study. Though he has worked with children in emergency and crisis settings, his preference lies with older adolescents and adults, i.e., those 18 y/o and above.