Meet The Team

Cynthia has taught psychology courses at the college level, as well as workshops in the community for social advocacy and personal growth and transformation. She has worked in community mental health settings as well as in private rehabilitation with people in all stages of life and recovery.

Her work is based on the belief that by exploring parts of self through creative activity participants can overcome barriers, foster mindfulness, and cultivate personal strengths. She works to facilitate creative support groups with the overall goal of helping clients lead a healthy, creative, and playfully inspired life.

Cynthia has expanded her focus on healing and transformation through utilizing the power of poetry and is completing her CPT (Certified Poetry Therapy) from the International Association for Bibliotherapy and/Poetry Therapy. 

Becoming a RDT was excited to Pam as it joined her passion for storytelling, acting as well as helping others. For twenty-eight years Pam worked with children and families suffering from abuse and neglect as a Social Worker for Orange County Children & Family Services in the following programs:
Emergency Response, Adoptions and as a Supervisor in the Domestic Abuse Services Unit (DASU) and the Family to Family program.  

While working in the Family to Family program she chaired a committee for four years which put on a yearly conference for helping professionals serving families impacted by domestic violence.  She co-chaired a committee that launched the Parent Mentor Program.  Pam has served on the board of “Heroes and Healthy Families” for several years and is the current Executive Director.  This non-profit offers conferences to active military persons on issues of PTSD, Suicide Prevention, Substance Abuse and Domestic Violence all through storytelling.  She co-developed the Strengthening Marriage Workshop” offered to active duty and veteran families.  She has assisted in conferences in California, Okinawa and Hawaii. She is currently conducting Narradrama Training in China.

Rachel Brousseau walks alongside clients of all ages to honor their process of healing and personal growth through the use of creative arts therapy. Rachel is particularly passionate about working with new mothers to help them feel more supported and connected with greater self-compassion. Rachel believes that therapy is a collaborative process to help in healing the whole person, connecting the mind, body, and spirit in order to help those who are struggling to live brighter, fuller lives with deeper meaning and connection.

Past drama therapy experience includes working with adults and adolescents struggling with eating disorders as well as working with children, adolescents, adults, and families in underserved communities to assist in decreasing depression, anxiety, and attachment issues. Rachel is currently serving as a Narradrama Trainer.

Terhi is a poet, writer, and research psychologist who believes in the healing power of words. She facilitates poetry groups for wellbeing and personal growth and is completing a CAPF (Certified Applied Poetry Facilitator) from the International Federation for Bibliotherapy and Poetry Therapy. Terhi is also a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist and has trained in Rapid Transformational Therapy. Her work is based on the premise that the language we use to dialogue with ourselves impacts our minds and bodies. Her passion is to help people to overcome their fears and limitations by changing the inner narrative and to activate their innate ability to heal and restore themselves. She also empowers women to release subconscious barriers around fertility and holds space for those who have experienced a pregnancy loss. Terhi draws on her interdisciplinary background, and her poetry facilitation is influenced by her transformational work with the subconscious mind. Terhi has an academic background in Psychology, and for over 10 years she worked as a research psychologist in the United Kingdom. Her research is at the frontier of theorizing communication and social interaction with a focus on two groups: children with autism; and healthcare professionals. She is the author of the book, Communication, Gaze, and Autism: A Multimodal Interaction Perspective (Routledge 2018), and her work has been published in clinical and social scientific journals. Terhi has taught psychology courses at the university level and developed and facilitated workshops for healthcare. In recent years, Terhi has moved beyond academia to focus more exclusively on the mind-body interaction and the creative practices for healing. She is the founder of Poetry Co., poetry facilitation for personal growth.