Cumberland Institute

Specialties

Cumberland Institute of Holistic Therapies, Inc. offers an authorized Massage Therapy Certification Program and Continuing Education for Licensed Healing Arts practitioners through Cumberland Institute. We also offer professional, client-​centered, healing arts services through our Cumberland Holistic Professionals Group.

We are the only self paced holistic massage therapy certification program in the region. We are committed to educating our students at the pace that provides the best opportunity to have a successful career as a Licensed Massage Therapist and Holistic Integrative Bodywork Professional. We also do not want our students to have the burden of bringing debt into a new career. At Cumberland we also bring passionate successful professionals to teach the modalities in which they have the most training and skills. We want you to learn from professionals who love what they do and have joy in teaching it to you.

We have an open house every 12 weeks so you can meet some of our teachers and get a sense of who we are.

At our Cumberland Holistic Professionals Group we bring together a set of Licensed Professionals who are committed to a client-​centered, bodymind approach to supporting your journey of healing and wellness.

Meet the Business Owner

Steve S.

Business Owner

Steve Sommers LMFT LMT has been the Co-​owner and Administrative Director for Cumberland Institute of Holistic Therapies (CIHT) since Sept. 2012. He has been a Lead Instructor at CIHT since 1995. As an instructor at CIHT he has taught and designed many classes.

Currently, he teaches the Law & Ethics class and assists the Advanced Techniques class in the core curriculum, and teaches or co-​teaches hundreds of hours of continuing education classes including Jin Shin Do® Bodymind Acupressure®.

Steve has been a Healing Arts Professional for 25 years. Currently, he has a private practice that focuses on Somatic Experiential Therapy, Jin Shin Do and the resolution of past trauma (event or relational.) He is a Licensed Massage Therapist and a Licensed Marital and Family Therapist, a Certified Somatic Experiential Therapy Practitioner, and a Authorized Senior Instructor of Jin Shin Do.

Together, he and Suzan Sommers LMT also own Body Perspectives, a Healing and Creative Arts Partnership.