Michael Cummings

Michael Cummings makes his home in Kentucky and has spent the majority of his life in the Appalachian region, with a short work tenure in Knoxville. He finds the mountains and the outdoors to be a primary source of joy and renewal.

His therapeutic style is warm, open, encouraging, and direct. Michael uses a mix of clinical methods to build a tailored plan for each person, working as an active therapist who blends two decades of experience with ongoing education, creativity, and a grounded sense of humor.

He brings focused experience in depression, anxiety, marriage and family therapy, family discord and change, stress management, adjustment difficulties, trauma, motivation and self-esteem work, sleep problems, and substance use concerns. Michael commonly uses cognitive-behavioral techniques and acceptance-oriented approaches for general mental health issues. For relationship and family work he applies a behavioral family therapy model, for substance use he utilizes S.M.A.R.T. recovery, and he employs Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia when addressing sleep disturbances.

Michael has held roles that include service on an Institutional Review Board for a federal government agency, serving as a Kentucky Board of Social Work clinical supervisor, and working as a healthcare ethics consultant. His clinical background includes 13 years providing care for military veterans and their families within federal and state government settings, and two years as a bereavement counselor with hospice services. He is licensed to practice as a clinical social worker in Kentucky, holding the state clinical license KY LCSW 3792, and he brings 20 years of experience to his practice in Kentucky.