Wild Moon Ways 

Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT): symptom management from the top-down

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) is an evidence-based therapy that focuses on managing distress, emotional dysregulation and interpersonal conflict through mindfulness. By learning specific skill sets focused on behavioral change, you will see radical changes in your day-to-day life. Through providing therapeutic skills in four key areas (Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation, and Interpersonal Effectiveness) DBT offers tangible and practical tools for increasing emotional choice in any situation. DBT is a little like the life skills you never learned in school, but wish you had!

Lifestyle counseling

Lifestyle counseling refers to psychoeducation and support around the actions and elements in a client's life that can impact overall health, like sleep, diet, exercise, and mindfulness practice. Cynthia conducts comprehensive lifestyle assessments and provides plans for clients that include sleep hygiene, dietary recommendations, exercise schedules, and other daily tips including meditation, journaling, and dance as self-expression. This holistic approach also serves to unearth any blocks to shifting old habits that individuals may have had for years, thereby making sustainable shifts finally within reach. 

somatic experiencing (SE): symptom resolution from the bottom-up

Somatic Experiencing (SE) is a trauma-specific, body-based, resolution therapy based in neuroscience. SE posits that unresolved trauma responses get “stuck” in our nervous systems, however can be uncovered, sequenced through, and ultimately healed, so that we may live the full lives we have a right to. SE works well in tandem treatment with DBT in that the former serves to resolve underlying trauma, while the later focuses on managing the symptoms of the trauma in daily life.

The subconscious & the intergenerational

I also hold a Jungian view as I work with people, which makes space for the unconscious to emerge. When we sleep and dream, these memories and messages that come in overnight might have a huge impact on our emotional wellness. When we engage in dream analysis, a larger perspective of our world occurs, and we might find greater clarity and direction in our lives.

I believe that we inherit emotional patterning through our family lineage. I support exploration of both familial traumas and resiliency through collaborative charting which traces several generations.