• Cindy has been in private practice for over 25 years specializing in the treatment of trauma, couples, families and relational/attachment trauma and relational addictions.
• Cindy has been an EMDR Therapy practitioner since 1997 and teaches EMDR Therapy as an EMDR International Association (EMDRIA) Trainer, Facilitator, and Approved Consultant to other therapists.
• Cindy is a Certified practitioner of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for couples and families and is certified in both EFCT and EFIT.
• Cindy has been extensively trained in Post Induction Therapy by Pia Mellody, LPC, RN, at the Meadows in Arizona. She uses Pia's Post Induction Therapy model (PIT) for treating relational trauma and helping people move past stuck points in their recovery and in their relationships. Cindy regularly offers small group intensive workshops using Pia Mellody's Post Induction Therapy.

• Cindy is well versed in the use and understanding of the clinical applications of both Coherence Therapy and Polyvagal Theory and incorporates both into all of her work.
• Cindy is fully trained in Internal Family Systems, Polyvagal Theory and it’s uses, and has taught both. She is an ongoing student of Coherence Therapy and memory reconsolidation and various approaches to assist with healing attachment trauma and its effects. Cindy is an expert in various Inner Child Work approaches and often uses them in her work.
• Cindy is an experienced consultant and educator, offering professional development workshops and individual and group professional consultation to other therapists in EMDR Therapy, trauma treatment, and couples’ treatment.
• Cindy has a love of learning and is always immersed in acquiring new skills and expanding her understanding of healing methods. She is committed to a life-long pursuit of understanding transformational change and facilitating the conditions for assisting people to achieve effortless, permanent change, favoring the most robust interventions for maximum benefit.

Often people come to therapy to get help to feel better or to improve their own functioning in facing challenges in life. Therapy is the process of discovering the nature and origin of these issues as well as healing the cause and defining a new path thereafter. Most behavior and emotions that people struggle with make sense in context. Whether you are struggling with emotions, thoughts, behaviors or issues with, e.g., self-esteem and self-worth, confidence and self-love issues, knowing and motivating yourself, boundary issues in relationships, perfectionism issues, trust and intimacy, trouble being moderate, identifying the nature of the issues is the first step. Most issues have their origin or root in childhood relational patterns with major caregivers and other traumas which often set these issues in motion. Not only do they interfere with relationships, family life and functioning in work or other social contexts, adverse childhood experiences influence the relationship you have with yourself and set up the basis for depression, addiction and other emotional, physical, behavioral and relational problems. Becoming aware of the impact of these relational patterns is not only helpful to clients but helps define a path to healing in therapy. These patterns influence how we all treat ourselves and cause us to revert to old behaviors, thoughts and emotions until we heal them.

Cindy makes extensive use of Pia Mellody LPC, RN's model of Developmental Immaturity and Codependence as a guide to understanding and explaining the connection between adverse childhood experiences, relational trauma, attachment and current life issues.

Healing the relationship with yourself creates the ability to affirm and nurture yourself and to feel worthy and valuable. It also means you will be able to hold yourself accountable and set limits on yourself, so that you will feel in control of yourself and have respectful relationships with others.

Family therapy can include all the members of a family, subgroups such as one parent and one child, couples, siblings or even just one member of a family. Often family therapy focuses on the overall lowering of reactivity to one another and increasing empathy from parent to child. Paradoxically, becoming detached from outcome and learning to be curious about others in the family, rather than reacting to them and trying to change them, opens the door to greater intimacy and improved bonding. When there is reduced reactivity, problem solving occurs with greater ease.

Cindy has been a student of various family therapy approaches since the beginning of her career and has a deep understanding of how our emotional functioning is linked to our families. Early on, Cindy became well-versed in Bowen Family Theory as an overarching guide to her therapy and currently uses Pia Mellody, LPC, RN's Post Induction Therapy (PIT) and the research-based attachment approach, Emotionally Focused Therapy when treating relationship problems in families.

Couples therapy is most effective when it is aimed at identifying, understanding and resolving the patterns and dynamics that set the relationship difficulties in motion. Cindy relies most on her extensive training in the work of Sue Johnson and attachment theory, Emotionally Focused Therapy, to help relationship partners accomplish these goals and create lasting connections and stable security.