About Brian
Brian Cummings is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Arkansas with three years of clinical experience. He focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, grief, and low self-esteem. He brings a compassionate, down-to-earth presence to sessions and aims to make therapy straightforward and practical.
In the therapy room he listens first, then works with each person to set clear, realistic goals. Sessions include talking through what's happening now, looking at how the past affects the present, and trying out doable steps to feel better.
How Brian works
He helps people build skills for handling strong emotions and improving everyday interactions. Brian tailors his support to each person’s situation. He offers help when issues involve abandonment, attachment, adoption and foster care backgrounds, aging concerns, caregiving stress, chronic illness and pain, body image, and identity issues related to kink and alternative sex culture.
He also addresses complex patterns like codependency, avoidant and antisocial personality traits, autism and Asperger Syndrome, and blended family dynamics. Sessions are offered in English and are available to people outside the U.S. through online formats. He uses straightforward language and practical strategies so people can use what they learn between sessions.
The emphasis is on steady progress rather than quick fixes. To begin, a short intake helps match goals and plan next steps. Brian aims to make the process clear so people know what to expect and can move forward at a comfortable pace.
What Brian works with
The areas below are the ones Brian selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Arkansas |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches that guide online work
Brian uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on practical problem solving and emotional processing. One common approach involves helping people identify and change unhelpful patterns in thinking and behavior by practicing new responses and skills in daily life. This can be useful for anxiety, stress, and self-esteem work.Another approach centers on processing past hurts and traumatic events through gradual, supported conversations and coping strategies. That method helps people reduce the ways past trauma interferes with current relationships and mood. A third emphasis is on building communication and relationship skills through role-play, feedback, and step-by-step practice to improve how people connect and set boundaries.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will review needs, goals, and preferences with each person, then suggest techniques to try. Over time they adjust the plan based on what helps most, so the work stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is good for traditional counseling conversations, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows brief check-ins, and text messaging can support ongoing reflection or quick updates between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep steady progress.
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