Kiana Cummings, M.Ed., LPC is a licensed professional counselor with years of experience working with a diverse population of pre-adolescents, adolescents, and adults in various settings. These settings include intensive in-home therapy, long-term residential for adolescents, crisis stabilization unit, and outpatient. Kiana received her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Master’s degree in Counseling and Development from George Mason University and continues volunteering in research related to BDSM, nonmongamy, and trauma.
Kiana is a passionate and collaborative therapist who uses empathy and compassion to provide a safe place for clients to share. Kiana utilizes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Emotion-focused therapy (EFT)/attachment theory, multicultural therapy, Motivational Interviewing (MI), and Dialectic Behavior Therapy (DBT) in therapy. She has completed additional training in sex therapy, Kink/BDSM, LGBTQIA communities, perinatal mental health, adolescence, and acculturation.
Her clinical areas of focus include anxiety related to the perinatal period, sex therapy, life transitions (retirement, college, having children), depression, LGBTQIA, and trauma (religious, racial, and intergenerational).
Clinical Population: Individual Therapy, Adults, Adolescents
Primary Theoretical Orientation(s): Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotion-Focused Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Areas of Clinical Interests: sex therapy, anxiety, depression, trauma, LGBTQIA issues, alternative lifestyles, life transitions, perinatal mental health
Advanced Trainings & Certifications:
- Sexual trauma & pregnancy
- Treating obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
- Teens & anxiety
- Cannabis abuse
- Cannabis & sex therapy
- Certification in perinatal mental health (in progress)
- Certification in sex therapy (in progress)