Post-Graduate Courses Leading to Certification and Continuing Education

• She has extensive experience and training in Yoga practices, meditation, dream analysis, Jungian therapy.
• Cynthia achieved a certificate of completion with world renowned American Shaman, Michael Harner. She was educated in the history of Shamanism and how the principles of identifying and facing energetic blocks can release long held trauma and pain. Breathwork, toning and drumming were explored, and a process called “journeying” became integral to her integrative healing practices.
• She experienced a treatment called Core Transformation; based on the profound changes in her own life from this treatment, Cynthia utilizes some of the principles of this work in her own integrative treatment process. Core Transformation was developed by Connierae Andreas; it is a gentle and respectful vehicle for change. By acknowledging and integrating “outlaw” aspects of ourselves and honoring the positive intention of the “shadow” aspects of ourselves, we can become whole and unified.
• Cynthia achieved a certificate for the “Holistic treatment for Mental Health: Integrating Mind, Body and Spirit in the Healing Process.”
• She studied at the California Institute of Integral Studies in Eastern philosophy and Zen Buddhism.
• Cynthia trained in the field of “mindfulness” enhancing her therapeutic skills with mind-body awareness techniques. She achieved a certificate in “Mindfulness - Enhance your Therapeutic Skills with Powerful Mind-Body Awareness Techniques.”
• She trained with a psychoanalyst specializing in Reichian Analysis, a process that integrated talk therapy and body work. Later she trained with Dr. Alexander Lowen and worked for many years with Dr. Lowen, founder of bio-energetic analysis; she worked and travelled with him on workshop tours and gave many workshops on Bio-energetics within the auspice of her private practice and internationally.
• Cynthia studied Wave Therapy, a process innovated by Samuel J. Winters in which a person’s innate healing ability is stimulated, using hands-on and over-the-body hand movements to energize and balance the human energy fields. Winter’s approach focuses on the science of energetic healing.
• Cynthia studied with the Higher Balance Institute in a course on “Awakening Dimensional Consciousness” a course of meditation using binaural and guided meditation in the achievement of higher levels of consciousness.
• Cynthia completed training in the EMF Balancing technique (electromagnetic field balancing) achieving a certificate; this practice is focused on energy healing as developed by Peggy Phoenix Dubrow; multi-dimensional levels of healing can occur with the use of these techniques: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.
• Cynthia became a Reiki Master after realizing herself the incredible benefit of this relaxing and healing energy work. She was trained and attuned in the Usui tradition by Astarius Reiki Om and Astara Reiki Om and in the Essential Reiki tradition by Francena Hancock.
• Cynthia is certified in “Play and Mastery in the treatment of children.”
• She achieved certification in “Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Pharmacologic Alternatives to Ritalin and other Stimulants.”
• Cynthia completed a course on “Antioxidants: Focus on Free Radicals, Aging and Vitamin X.”
• Also, she achieved a certificate in “Hormone Replacement Therapy, Peri-menopause and Menopause.”
• Again, certification in “Cerebral Dominance: The Left, Right and Middle Brain.”
• Certification in “Weight Matters: Obesity, Hormones and Appetite.”
• Certificate in “The Aging Brain: The Rejuvenated Brain.”
• Certificate in “Emotions, Stress and Disease.”
• Certificate: "Holistic Treatment for Mental Health Disorders: Integrating Mind, Body and Spirit in the Healing Process.
• Certificate: Depression, Heart Disease and Stroke."
• Certificate: "Trauma, PTSD and Grief."
• Certificate: "The Way of the Shaman: The Shamanic Journey, Power and Healing."
• Certificate: "Neuropsychiatric Manifestations of Lyme Disease."
• Cynthia achieved numerous certificates relating to Coaching.
• Cynthia studied past life regression hypnosis and Guided Light Therapy (trade marked) with renowned expert Dr. Norton Berkowitz
• Certificate in “Alternative, Complementary and Nutritional Strategies for Mental Health Disorders.”
• Certificates I, II and III achieved in “Autonomic Reflex Testing” with Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt (brilliant pioneer); 5 levels of healing were explored.
• Trained with Dr. Klinghardt in an understanding of Lyme disease and co-infections and alternative diagnosis methods and treatments for these conditions.
• Studied “Family Constellation” work with Douglas Economy; this is a form of family therapy using dynamic psychodrama for healing.
• Studied at the Ackerman Family Institute in the field of Structural Family Therapy developed by Salvador Minuchin; his primary contribution was that the solution to family dysfunction lies within the family dynamics – not in an individual within the family
• Certificate in “Alternative, Complementary and Nutritional Strategies for Mental Health Disorders.”
• Cynthia has informally studied nutrition for many years and its effect on the body-mind and has integrated this knowledge into her holistic practice. Also her informal study of herbal medicine and homeopathy rounds out her knowledge of naturopathic medicine so that referrals, where appropriate, add to her holistic approach to mind and body wellness.
• As a Reiki Master she has developed a process called Reiki Fusion, drawing on the positive focus of Eastern principles of energy work and on her own extensive experience.
• Certificate in Nutritional and integrative Interventions for Mental Health Disorders.
• Cynthia teaches Reiki I, II and Master level. She also teaches Reiki Fusion to those who have reached the Master Reiki level.
• Certificate in Dream Analysis November 5, 2017
• Completed Program in Opioids and Marijuana: Managing the Nationwide Emergency