About Restoring the Soul

Stubborn hope. Deep change.

At Restoring the Soul, we help you get unstuck.

Our story

In 1998, Michael Cusick was training grad students as a professor when a local ministry called. They asked if Michael would meet with a pastor every day for two weeks. As Michael had never heard of such a thing, he was initially hesitant.

But as he worked with the pastor for three hours a day over two weeks, what the pastor experienced and Michael witnessed was nothing short of miraculous. Within two years, Michael had resigned from a career in academia and set out to grow an intensive counseling ministry.

Michael and Julianne Cusick founded Restoring the Soul in 2001 to help couples and individuals experience hope and healing when they feel most stuck. Although it follows the basic framework of intensive counseling, the RTS program is strengthened by Michael’s exclusive Integrated Clinical Soul Care (ICSC) model, blending cutting-edge clinical care with contemplative spirituality.

What is intensive counseling?

Our Approach

Our clinical experience

Our trauma-informed, licensed therapists are trained to identify and diagnose core issues. As professionals in the field, we bring our individual expertise and experience to each session to help you explore your story.

We specialize in

EMDR

Integrated Spirituality

Complex-PTSD

Compulsive Behaviors

Sexual Abuse

Betrayal Trauma

Marital & Ministry Therapy

Our Team

Our founders

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Michael Cusick, MA, LPC, Co-founder & CEO

Meet Michael

Julianne Cusick, MA, LMFT, Co-founder

Meet Julianne

What we believe as faith-based therapists

Restoring the Soul operates within an Orthodox Trinitrarian framework. As we care for people across the spectrum of Christian traditions—and we welcome people of all faith traditions—we hold to the words attributed to Augustine: “In essentials unity; in non-essentials liberty; in all things charity.”

Our position on taking a position

Occasionally, someone reaches out to us wanting to know what we believe about a sensitive issue, like homosexuality, gender, abortion, or birth control. Sometimes the questions are theological or doctrinal: Is your ministry liberal or conservative? Calvinist or Arminian? Catholic or Protestant? What is your position on women in ministry?

But our position as an organization is not to take any position on controversial issues or issues outside the counseling room. This allows us to honor our calling and commitment to create a safe and non-judgemental space where we meet men and women at the point of their pain, brokenness, struggle, and doubts. In this space, we explore their story by partnering with the Author of their story (Hebrews 12:1-2) to facilitate deep healing and transformation.

We are deeply convinced that:

The issues and problems that bring people to counseling are rarely the actual problem (Proverbs 20:5).
People are wounded in relationship, and people are healed in relationship.
Jesus came to bind up broken hearts and set captives free so that we can be whole and holy.
Human beings are embodied; therefore, the spiritual self is embodied; therefore, practices of embodiment and somatic work are essential for living with integrity.

We believe in the words of the Nicene Creed

We believe in one God,
the Father, the Almighty,
maker of heaven and earth,
of all that is, seen and unseen.

We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ,
the only Son of God,
eternally begotten of the Father,
God from God, Light from Light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made,
of one Being with the Father.
Through him all things were made.
For us and for our salvation
he came down from heaven:
by the power of the Holy Spirit
he became incarnate from the Virgin Mary,
and was made man.
For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate;
he suffered death and was buried.
On the third day he rose again
in accordance with the Scriptures;
he ascended into heaven
and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead,
and his kingdom will have no end.

We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life,
who proceeds from the Father and the Son.
With the Father and the Son he is worshiped and glorified.
He has spoken through the Prophets.
We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church.
We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.
We look for the resurrection of the dead,
and the life of the world to come. Amen.

(Book of Common Prayer, pp. 358-359)

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