Dr. Cynthia Curnan

Dr. Cynthia Curnan began her professional journey as a teacher of Inner Guidance, including training others in the curriculum to become teachers of that approach. She emphasizes the inner senses people often neglect - intuition, insight, instinct, imagination and a deeper intelligence that sharpens with use - as central resources for growth.

She observes how childhood wounds and family patterns can confine personal development to surface-level responses, leaving many unaware of the fuller capacities they possess. By helping clients develop accurate self-knowledge and recognize which parts of themselves are driving thought and choice, she supports a path toward self-mastery.

Dr. Curnan assists people in unraveling personal predicaments and in cultivating greater personal power so they can clarify what they want and learn how to manifest it. She received her California license as a marriage and family therapist (CA LMFT 29820) in 1992 and earned a PhD in psychology in 1996. She is the author of The Care and Feeding of Perfectionists, published in 1998, which outlines multiple types of perfectionism and offers ways to move from perfectionism to an inner drive toward excellence.

Alongside talk therapy, Dr. Curnan uses methods that include identifying and healing trauma, conscious breathing, dream analysis, focused meditation, Inner Guidance and inner child work, and the use of humor. She incorporates EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprogramming), FLASH (an offshoot of EMDR), interactive hypnotherapy, and practical work on goal setting, presence, dismantling perfectionism, accepting personal power and couples counseling to support lasting change.