Cynthia E. Garner

Cynthia Garner has an MFA in writing creative nonfiction from Goucher College, and is a certified meditation teacher, public speaker, somatic psychotherapist, former classroom teacher, adoptee, and single mom. Her passion is helping trauma survivors find refuge in the present moment, reclaim their power, and come home to their authentic selves. She teaches Writing to Heal courses online and coaches educational leadership and survivors of domestic violence, offering practical coping skills, secular mindfulness, and in-the-moment interventions for managing reactivity and breaking the patterns of generational, systemic, and relational trauma.

She studied counseling at Regis University, earned a doctorate in Body-Mind Health from the Parkmore Institute, and is trained in group psycho-education through the UCSD Medical School, the Centre for Mindfulness Studies, Inward Bound, Mindful Schools, and the Hakomi Institute. She is also an anthropologist and Fulbright Scholar, and the author of the self-published memoir Out of Grace: An Extraordinary Journey through Guatemala’s Haunted Highlands. She attended undergrad at Franklin and Marshall College, where she was the managing editor of The College Reporter and graduated with honors.