Dr. Michael Cundiff
Experienced, relationship-focused counselor
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 45 years
- Licensed in
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Michael
Dr. Michael Cundiff is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 45 years of clinical experience. He practices from Missouri and uses a straightforward, relationship-focused approach.
He welcomes questions and encourages people to move at their own pace during therapy. He typically offers 45-minute sessions, but will adjust if a different length fits a person's needs. Sessions can happen by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
Scheduling and session details are arranged after the initial matching and intake steps.
Background and approach
His work centers on building a collaborative relationship. He starts by listening to what matters most and then helps set clear, practical goals. Michael uses that plan to guide conversations and small changes between sessions.
He draws on several approaches to meet different needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental stance and shared decision making.
Narrative Therapy looks at the stories people tell about their lives and considers new ways to tell them. Problems he addresses include stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, grief, parenting and family concerns, self-esteem, and life transitions. He also works with issues such as attachment, communication problems, caregiver stress, and forgiveness.
His style is calm and pragmatic, focused on clear steps and steady progress.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the person and their priorities. The therapist listens closely, respects each person's perspective, and works together on realistic goals. This approach is often helpful when someone needs a steady, nonjudgmental space to sort through feelings and choices.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people notice patterns of thinking that keep them stuck and then try small behavior changes. It is practical and skills-focused, and can help with anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and stress management.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, needs, and preferences and adapt methods accordingly. That collaborative process helps decide whether to lean more on listening and relationship-based care or on specific skills and exercises.
Online sessions make this flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions suit those who prefer voice only, and live chat or text messaging let people check in from anywhere. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep momentum between sessions.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 45 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
Next step
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