About Michael
Dr. Michael Cundiff is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) practicing in Missouri with 45 years of experience. He offers straightforward, relationship-focused help and prefers to meet people where they are.
Sessions commonly run about 45 minutes, though he can adjust that to fit a client's needs. He uses a client-centered approach, which means he and the person in therapy work together to set goals and find solutions. He also draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and make small changes.
Background and approach
Mindfulness and narrative techniques are used when they suit a person's situation. Dr. Cundiff helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, anger, and self-esteem struggles.
He also supports those dealing with relationship and intimacy issues, parenting and family concerns, caregiving stress, and transitions like divorce or major life changes. Other focus areas include trauma and abuse, LGBT matters, ADHD, and career-related concerns. Sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules.
Communication can be paced to each person's comfort, and messages are checked regularly to keep momentum between sessions. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules sessions based on the listed availability. Costs vary by location and are billed through a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
Online approaches that fit around your life
Dr. Cundiff uses client-centered work to build a collaborative relationship where the person's goals guide each session. That approach focuses on listening, reflecting, and helping people decide what matters most to them.He also uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help people identify and test unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is practical and often helps with anxiety, depression, sleep, and stress by teaching concrete skills to try between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. He will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what feels comfortable, then try methods that match those needs. The process is collaborative and can change over time as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into a busy week. Video is useful for deeper conversations, phone can be simpler if bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging helps keep momentum between appointments. These options give flexibility for different schedules and communication styles.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- 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