Michael Thomas Rumbach

Michael Rumbach is a licensed clinical mental health counselor in North Carolina. Though located near the Raleigh/Durham area, the miracle of telehealth provides the opportunity to help people anywhere in the state. A generalist at this time, he has a particular affinity and effectiveness with those with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, or trauma, crisis situations, and grief. Personal experience and working with the Durham Crisis Response Center during his internship afforded him some first-hand knowledge in the debilitating effects these difficult challenges create.

Michael has had a good deal of success treating these conditions, as well as others such as anxiety, depression, ADHD, etc., using an integrative method of Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) with a postmodern existential point-of-view. Those serve as a foundation of treatment as well as incorporating other modalities such as Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Gestalt and others. ACT provides a mechanism in which to create a space in the present that allows one to bring better judgement to bear, with existentialism providing a way to find or create meaning in and for our lives.

It is this belief that we can create our own meaning for events and our lives that Michael believes empowers one to continue to move forward in life, which then provides better assess one's perception of an event and thus choose a productive and meaningful behavior. This method is strengths and values based, so any choice made with those is not likely to be a "wrong" choice.

His pragmatism helps to foster a better and more reliable feeling of hope that is often all one needs in times of trouble.