CORNWALLCOUNSELINGChoose Yourself. Choose Imperfection. Choose Courage.

Emotional Wellness in Las Vegas

Personalized support—in person or via telehealth.

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.

Telehealth appointments are available for clients who are physically located in Nevada at the time of their appointment.

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

Credit cards and digital payments accepted

Format
In person & telehealth
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada
Call or text
(859) 321-4956
Fax
(702) 472-8635
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Active, collaborative conversations focused on improved self- and other-awareness.
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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 younger clients 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.

Insurance & Employee Assistance

Accepted payers

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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.

What Informs Our Care Model

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Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy

REBT explores how beliefs and interpretations shape emotional consequences. Clients 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. Clients 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.

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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 that clients can carry into daily life.

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Choose yourself.
Choose imperfection.
Choose courage.

A knowledgeable coach—and an active collaborator.

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.

Interactive inventories coming soon
Guide

Common Irrational Beliefs

Ten recurring ideas that can intensify emotional suffering.

Directory

Support & Quick Links

National resources, crisis services, and useful wellness tools.

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

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

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.