Will Dunbar, IV, M.Ed., LPC/S, NCC
My name is Will, and I am a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC, License #7674) and Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor (LPCS, License #9821) serving individuals, families, couples, and LPCAs in Rock Hill, South Carolina and throughout the state via telehealth.
I founded Light Warriors Counseling LLC on a simple belief: every person carries an inner light — sometimes it just needs help finding its way through. My approach is warm, direct, and deeply human. I take your story seriously, and I am committed to creating a space where you can speak freely and be fully seen. Let us find that ember burning deep inside of you so we can set it ablaze once again!
A Brief Story of My Path
My work as a therapist was born long before I ever sat in a counseling room. It grew from a lifetime of listening, serving, and learning to meet people exactly where they are. My path carried me through hospitals, schools, and community programs — places where humanity shows itself unfiltered and unguarded. And then it carried me even farther.
For 27 months, my wife Monika and I lived in a small mountain town in Albania as Peace Corps Volunteers. Those years reshaped me. We built youth programs, supported local schools, and became part of a community that taught us the sacred art of slowing down. I learned to listen with my whole presence, to honor the stories people carry, and to trust the quiet wisdom that rises when you sit with someone in their truth.
That experience became the foundation of my clinical identity: steady, intuitive, relational, and deeply human.
Today, I bring that same spirit into my work as an LPCS and therapist. My specialties — trauma healing, EMDR, identity exploration, and the gentle untangling of life’s complexities — are all held within a calm, spiritual, light‑centered approach. I believe people are not problems to be fixed but beings in the process of remembering who they are. My role is to walk beside them, illuminate what’s already within, and help them rise at their own pace.
Everything I do is guided by presence, compassion, and the belief that every person carries a masterpiece inside them — sometimes buried, sometimes bruised, but always there, waiting to be seen.
My Approach: Integrative Counseling
I am an integrative counselor, meaning I draw from multiple evidence-based theories and techniques and blend them thoughtfully to fit you as an individual. No two clients are alike, and your therapy should not be either. My work is grounded in:
- Person-Centered Therapy — You are the expert on your own life. I provide a warm, empathic space where you lead the way.
- Somatic Therapy — A gentle, body‑based approach that helps you listen to the places where your story lives beneath words — in breath, tension, movement, and sensation. It invites the nervous system to soften and unwind so that healing can happen from the inside out. It’s a way of returning to yourself with presence, curiosity, and compassion.
- Gestalt Therapy — Exploring the present moment, awareness, and the connection between mind, body, and experience.
- Reality Therapy — Focusing on what you can control today and building choices that align with your goals and values.
- Attachment-Focused Therapy — Healing attachment wounds means gently learning, over time, that safety, connection, and trust can exist in the present—even if they were uncertain in the past—and allowing new, steadier relationships to reshape the way your nervous system experiences closeness.
- Trauma-Informed Therapy — Recognizing how past experiences shape the present and healing with safety and compassion at the center.
- Existential Therapy — Exploring meaning, purpose, freedom, and the deeper questions of what it means to be alive.
- EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) — A powerful, research-backed approach that is nothing short of transformative. See below.
What is EMDR — and Why It Is Amazing
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is one of the most exciting and effective therapeutic tools available today — and I am deeply passionate about it.
EMDR uses bilateral stimulation (such as guided eye movements) to help the brain reprocess painful, stuck, or traumatic memories. Instead of talking about a memory over and over, EMDR helps your nervous system complete the processing it could not finish at the time — so the memory loses its emotional charge and stops running your life from the background.
EMDR works beautifully for:
- Grief and Loss — When grief feels frozen, complicated, or like it will never ease, EMDR helps the heart begin to move again.
- Trauma — Whether from a single event or a lifetime of experiences, EMDR is among the most effective trauma treatments ever developed, endorsed by the WHO and the American Psychological Association.
- Childhood and Adolescent Attachment Issues — Early wounds around safety, love, and belonging often show up in adult relationships, self-worth, and emotional regulation. EMDR reaches those roots in a way that talk therapy alone often cannot.
Many clients describe EMDR as a turning point — the moment things finally began to shift. I would love to explore whether it might be right for you.
Spiritually-Aware Counseling
I have a deep respect for spiritual identity and personal meaning. For clients who want to include their spiritual life, values, or worldview in the therapeutic conversation, that door is always open — though it is never required. You are welcome here exactly as you are.
P.S. Broken Healers Welcome!
My Academic Life
Beyond my clinical practice, I am a proud full-time Associate Professor with Prescott College’s MS in Counseling Program — a CACREP-accredited program training the next generation of counselors. I teach Practicum and Internship, accompanying students as they take their very first steps into the counseling profession. It is some of the most meaningful work I do, and I absolutely love it!
A Little More About Me
Outside the office, I’m an adventurer at heart — drawn to wild places, long trails, and the kind of stillness only the natural world can teach. The mountains and forests keep me curious, humble, and alive, and I bring that same spirit of openness and exploration into the therapy room. I try to fill my life with light, trusting that if it isn’t about light, it isn’t worth much at all. I practice being present for every season — the cold, necessary winters and the soft, generous springs. And my practice carries the blessing I whisper to my sons each night: You are Warriors of Light, Love, and Peace.
Psychology Today Profile
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“I do not want learning, or dignity or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.” Rumi
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