I am Cynthia St.Clair, MA, LPC, LCMHC, psychotherapist, and women’s emotional wellness specialist. My professional interests lie in the intersectionality of women’s moods, trauma, and hormones; I love supporting clients experiencing Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD), the perimenopausal shift, high-sensitivity, and unprocessed trauma. My path in women’s mental health began because I, myself, am I PMDD survivor; and while I’ve had fabulous psychotherapists over the years, no one ever asked me about menstrual cycle, or my hormones; so I essentially decided to be the counselor I could never find!

As the owner of Saint Clair Counseling and Consulting, I bring my integrative values of mindfulness, trauma-informed care, and somatics to every aspect of my practice. Since 2018, I have had the privilege of supporting hundreds of women on their healing paths, which allowed me to develop a unique and effective Bio-Psycho-Social treatment model for PMDD. In 2022, I was honored to be a guest speaker on The PMDD Healing Podcast to discuss the role of DBT specifically in PMDD treatment protocols. I offer remote individual and group therapy to residents of North Carolina and Colorado, professional supervision, teaching, women’s retreats, and have my first book brewing…

Before I was a psychotherapist, I was a professional dancer and choreographer, and while I no longer have an artistic practice in this way, I find that the creative lens still deeply colors my worldview. I found my way to psychotherapy through dance, as I studied yoga and became hungry to learn all I could about mind-body connection and healing. This brought me to enroll in a Dance/Movement Therapy program at Naropa University, which truly set me on the path I am on today. I now reside in Southern Appalachia where I can be found baking sourdough bread, wildcrafting herbs, and slowing down in the forest every chance I get.