Cynthia Perry

My focus is on mental health, having worked over the past five years in dual diagnosis mental health and substance use disorders at residential, partial hospitalization, and intension outpatient levels. I hold a Bachelor Equivalency degree in music therapy, maintaining the Music Therapist Board Certified qualification; and a Master of Arts degree in psychology. I am a trained Stephen Minister, having offered caring, compassionate listening to four care receivers. In February 2020, I completed the Somatic Experiencing Practitioner certification, and am continuing somatic work in NeuroAffective Touch with Dr. Aline La Pierre. I work with individuals and groups, and until the pandemic changed everything, was a twice yearly guest lecturer on the integration of creative arts and psychology at a local university.

I embrace a trauma-focused, safety-informed, eclectic approach, including autonomic nervous system regulation through HeartMath® and Somatic Experiencing®; deeper mind re-education through Accelerated Resolution Therapy® and Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music; and behavioral support through music-facilitated Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Much of my work relies on the creative arts – visual art, movement, music, metaphor – to provide insight into underlying distress and to allow for re-creation and re-integration of the whole self: body, heart, mind, and spirit.