During years of being an Educational Assistant, an office manager for her personal business, and a mother to 5 sons, Cyndi volunteered with community services such as Victim Services and Alberta Health Services, Equine Events, youth events and camps, parachurch events, and others. When her youngest child started school, she felt the call to return to her own education and finish her Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in psychology, and then her Master of Counselling degree, through City University of Seattle. 

During her Master’s studies, Cyndi completed Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing [EMDR] Basic level, Trauma Regulation and Integration Processing [TRIP] Level 1, Pragmatic Experiential Therapy for Couples [PET-C] Levels 1and 2, and Hakomi Introduction Level, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy [CTRI], and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy [PESI]. She has also completed the Alberta Health Services grief support training and the Grief Recovery Method® [GRM], as well multiple certificate courses on trauma and grief processing. Cyndi has facilitated grief recovery groups with Alberta Health Services, a divorce recovery group, and one-to-one grief and trauma processing for death, break-up, Covid-19, childhood abuse, moving, adoption and identity, young adults with parents with mental health concerns, spiritual losses and traumas, and loss of purpose, hopes dreams. Finally, she has presented a Mental Health Support talk in her local community.

Cyndi is a member in good standing of the College of Alberta Psychologists, Psychologists Association of Alberta, and The Grief Recovery Institute.

Like many sojourning, my early life experiences of trauma and grief accumulated to the point that pain and anxiety were affecting my ability to thrive. When my brother-in-love died from lung and brain cancer in 2018, the tools, training and experience I had through the Crisis and Trauma Resource Institute and facilitating grief group processes through Alberta Health Services, did not take me through the depth of processing I needed. I heard so many great things about the Grief Recovery Method® that I enrolled to process my brother-in-love’s death. The second day into the training my lovely dad died. When I enrolled a second time, I was doubly invested in experiencing more of the heart healing that had begun. I was relieved I could share how my experiences with these deaths felt, without others’ cliches, correction or avoidance. At the end of it, my heart felt so much lighter and peaceful. 

My own healing journey and life experiences assist me in offering counselling support with integrity, empathy and compassionate presence in an atmosphere of shared knowledge and hope. I see healing as a sacred process, deserving honour and witness, and growth as partner of healing. I am especially passionate about walking people through the pain which accompanies losses, trauma and grief and what we might call the "dark night of the soul" into illumination that brings transformation. I may often be found saying, “May you recover all (that was stolen from you)!” 

I enjoy working from a trauma informed and holistic approach to wellbeing that includes the soul, body and spirit. Our body is often the first signaler of our distress, and our spirit influences our healing and thriving. My future plans include applying the learning and experiences I have gained within the niche of Equine therapy, as horses have been a primary source of learning about attunement, grounding and self-regulation in my early and later years.

In my personal time, I enjoy soaking up time with my family who are the loves of my life, trying varieties of flavoured coffee, adventuring outdoors, and creative arts. I stay centered through my faith experiences and enjoy singing with the team of my church.