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Emotional Wellness in Las Vegas

What We Do At a Glance

Supportive, solution-focused skill-building for adults, children ages 6 and older, teens, couples, and families. Together, we’ll cultivate greater self-awareness and unconditional self-acceptance while developing practical tools that can help you create a more meaningful and manageable emotional life. With a focus on emotional intelligence, effective problem-solving, emotional understanding, and evidence-based strategies, you’ll be supported in building confidence, gaining clarity, and achieving lasting results.

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Active, collaborative conversations focused on improved self- and other-awareness.

Telehealth appointments are available when you are physically located in Nevada at the time of your appointment.

We accept the health plans and employee assistance programs listed below.

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Format
In person & telehealth
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada
Call or text
(859) 321-4956
Fax
(702) 472-8635
Collaborative careWhole-person perspectivePractical skillsStrength-based treatment

How we can help

Building skills that turn curiosity into more adaptive emotional outcomes.

Care is tailored to the person, the circumstance, and the goals you want to realize using an emotional intelligence, rational, mindful approach.

Individual counseling

A focused, collaborative space to work through anxiety, stress, depressed mood, difficult transitions, and recurring patterns.

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Couples & family counseling

Support for clearer communication, healthier expectations, conflict resolution, and more adaptive ways of relating.

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Children & adolescents

Developmentally informed care that helps children and teens build emotional language, choice, confidence, and practical coping skills.

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Common concerns include anxiety, stress, depressed mood, relationship difficulties, life transitions, emotional regulation, and career concerns.

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Care grounded in warmth, curiosity, and honest collaboration.

Our Approach to Emotional Wellness

“The emotional words you use may describe your experience, but they do not define who you are.”

We will look beneath the emotional labels you use to understand the perceptions, predictions, beliefs, and demands that give your experiences meaning. Our shared goal will not be to judge an emotion or urgently make it disappear. Instead, we seek to better understand the thinking that lies behind the emotional word. We explore the origins of emotion and create room for a more deliberate, adaptive response.

Together, we learn to rely on curiosity and self-awareness rather than seeking to escape, suppress, or immediately change the emotional mind.

Our meetings will often focus on active, here-and-now thinking through an educational, solution-focused approach.

Together, we will learn to engage in emotional problem-solving by curiously examining our thoughts, ideas, and predictions. Using the accessible language available in the moment, we will invite honest self-examination and explore the conclusions we draw about the circumstances we face. We can untangle the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves and identify the thoughts that may contribute to our emotional hardship.

Only then can we develop practical skills and methods for making more deliberate choices that lead to increasingly adaptive outcomes.

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What Informs Our Care Model

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Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy

REBT explores how beliefs and interpretations shape emotional consequences. You learn to question rigid “musts,” “shoulds,” and catastrophic conclusions, replacing them with views that are more accurate, flexible, and workable.

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Emotional Intelligence

Emotions are treated as meaningful information rather than fixed identities. The work strengthens the ability to recognize, understand, express, and regulate emotion while responding effectively to the emotions of others.

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Mindfulness

Mindfulness creates a pause between an internal experience and an automatic reaction. You practice observing thoughts, sensations, and emotions with greater clarity, curiosity, and self-acceptance.

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Biopsychosocial Perspective

Emotional well-being is understood in the context of physical health, psychological patterns, relationships, culture, environment, and life circumstances. Care considers how these influences interact rather than reducing a person to a diagnosis.

Understanding the Biopsychosocial Model

The biopsychosocial model considers how physical health, thoughts and emotions, relationships, culture, environment, and life circumstances work together to influence well-being. Rather than viewing emotional concerns in isolation, it looks at the many interacting influences that shape how a person feels, thinks, responds, and functions. This broader perspective helps create a more complete understanding of the person and the circumstances surrounding the concern.

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Education into Action

Insight becomes useful when it can be practiced. Sessions connect understanding with concrete skills, behavioral choices, and realistic next steps you can carry into daily life.

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Cognitive Flexibility

Cognitive flexibility helps you examine familiar conclusions, consider other explanations, and respond to changing circumstances without becoming trapped by rigid thinking.

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Unconditional Self-Acceptance

People can evaluate their choices without reducing their entire worth to a success, mistake, diagnosis, or another person’s judgment. Acceptance creates room for honest change.

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Emotional Resilience

Resilience develops through realistic thinking, supportive relationships, and repeated practice. Difficult experiences can be acknowledged while you strengthen your ability to recover and adapt.

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Values-Based Action

Clear values help turn reflection into purposeful behavior. You identify what matters, choose workable next steps, and act intentionally even when uncomfortable emotions remain present.

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Reframing Stress

Stress does not always have to be treated as an enemy. A different interpretation of the stress response can support resilience, connection, and more deliberate action.

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Vulnerability & Courage

Vulnerability is not the opposite of strength. Allowing ourselves to be seen, uncertain, and imperfect can be part of courage, connection, and meaningful change.

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Purposeful action can begin with something as simple as movement, connection, and play.

“A knowledgeable coach—and an active collaborator.”

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Choose yourself.
Choose imperfection.
Choose courage.

About Your Coach

Michael Cornwall, PsyD, PhD, LPC, LCSW

My education and training span general psychology, health psychology and behavioral medicine, clinical counseling, and clinical social work. This breadth allows me to understand emotional concerns from several connected perspectives: your thoughts and behavior, physical health, relationships, environment, and the larger systems affecting your daily life.

Across more than three decades of behavioral-health and public-service work, my experience has included private mental healthcare, child mental health, clinical education and supervision, and work within social, legal, and medical systems. I bring that experience into coaching without losing sight of you as an individual and the goals that brought you here.

My role as a coach is collaborative and practical. I offer clear explanations, ask direct but respectful questions, and help you distinguish between what happened, what you concluded, and what remains within your influence. The purpose is not perfect thinking or the absence of difficult emotion; it is greater awareness, flexibility, self-acceptance, and the ability to make intentional choices.

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Published Works

Writing that explores emotional intelligence, self-observation, personal growth, relationships, and the stories through which people understand themselves.

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Mask TheoryPublication details coming soon
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Mask Theory WorkbookPublication details coming soon
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Grow a PearView on Amazon
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Go Suck a LemonView on Amazon
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Back When We Were TryingView on Amazon

Learn between sessions

Ideas and tools for understanding your emotional experience.

Explore practical reading, counseling resources, and the developing Mask Theory learning collection.

Featured framework

Mask Theory

Move beneath familiar emotional labels and examine the meaning, fear, and protective behavior supporting them.

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Common Irrational Beliefs

Ten recurring ideas that can intensify emotional suffering.

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Support & Quick Links

National resources, crisis services, and useful wellness tools.

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Bottom-Up Top Down Processing

Learn how sensory input and prior knowledge work together to shape perception.

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Emotional Intelligence

Explore how recognizing, understanding, and using emotion can support wiser choices, stronger relationships, and greater self-awareness.

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Mindfulness & Present-Moment Awareness

Learn how mindfulness can strengthen attention, increase awareness of thoughts and feelings, and create more room for deliberate response.

Appointment Requests

Before requesting an appointment, please take a few moments to familiarize yourself with our approach and the way we work.

  1. When you are ready, click the Request an appointment button.
  2. Choose a convenient day and time from the available appointments shown on the online calendar.
  3. You will receive an email directing you to complete the intake forms. Please complete each requested form so that we can review the information needed for your appointment request.
  4. Most of the forms require a signature. You may choose to sign the form directly or use an electronic signature.
  5. Once your information has been received and reviewed, you will receive a confirmation email confirming the requested appointment day and time.
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Before Your Visit

Helpful information to make your visit as smooth as possible.

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What Happens at the First Appointment?

Your first appointment is an opportunity for us to get acquainted, talk about what brought you in, and begin identifying the concerns and goals you would like to address. Learn more about what to expect and how the first appointments are structured.

What Should I Bring?

You do not need to bring special materials. We provide paper and a pen if you would like to take notes. You are also welcome to use your phone to take photographs of information we review or to record the session for your own personal use.

How Long Is an Appointment?

Most appointments last approximately 45–60 minutes. The exact length may vary somewhat depending on the purpose of the meeting and what we are working on that day.

Cancellations and Schedule Changes

We understand that plans sometimes change. Whenever possible, please provide at least 24 hours’ notice if you need to cancel or reschedule an appointment. Late-cancellation or missed-appointment fees may apply when adequate notice is not provided. Open the appointment portal for scheduling.

Telehealth Appointments

For telehealth visits, please plan to enter the telehealth waiting room approximately 10 minutes before your scheduled appointment time. This gives you time to make sure your connection, sound, and video are working and helps us begin the appointment on time. Learn more about telehealth coaching.

Payment Arrangements

Payment arrangements and the method of payment are established before the appointment takes place. This helps avoid confusion and allows the visit itself to remain focused on your care. Review insurance, EAP, and payment information.

If You Need Urgent Help

Cornwall Counseling is an outpatient practice and is not an emergency service. If you are experiencing an emergency or believe that you or someone else may be in immediate danger, please call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room.

For 24/7 crisis support in the United States, call, text, or learn more about 988. If your concern is urgent but not an emergency, contact the practice. We will make every reasonable effort to arrange an appointment within 24 hours of being notified, based on availability.

Take the next step

Let’s determine whether Cornwall Counseling is the right fit.

Request an appointment through the secure appointment portal, or call or text the practice with questions.

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Cornwall Counseling2785 E. Desert Inn Road, Suite 280Las Vegas, Nevada 89121mcornwall@cornwallcounseling.com
Monday–Thursday · 10:00–5:30Saturday · 11:15–3:00Insurance participation varies. Contact the practice to verify current coverage.
Need immediate help?

Cornwall Counseling is an outpatient practice and does not provide emergency services. If you or someone else may be in immediate danger, call 911. For 24/7 crisis support in the United States, call or text 988.

Commercial Insurance Plans and Employee Assistance Plans (EAP)If your plan is not listed, please contact your insurance provider directly to confirm whether Cornwall Counseling is currently in network with your plan.

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