The Holistic Therapy Institute offers counseling and education to first responders and trauma survivors to help reset the body’s natural relaxation response. Our clients rework old stress patterns that can interfere with growth and wellness into more updated patterns that make it easier to navigate ordinary stressors and extraordinary challenges.
“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.”
— Maya Angelou
Our Team
Dr. Cynthia Yesko, founder of Cynthia Yesko PLLC/Holistic Therapy Institute, is a Counselor Educator and a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with over 30 years’ experience treating stress and trauma through counseling, wellness programs, and workshops. Throughout the services offered, Dr. Yesko uses a combination of complementary relaxation techniques such as meditation, mindfulness, progressive relaxation, guided imagery, and deep breathing exercises. Dr. Yesko may refer clients to preferred providers in other therapy fields for the purpose of evaluation and treatment.
Counseling Specializations
Dr. Yesko treats a wide range of issues related to stress and trauma including: first responder trauma; childhood abuse; clergy abuse; betrayal trauma; vicarious trauma; grief/loss of a loved one; life transitions; workplace issues; relationship challenges; adoption issues; divorce/custody battle; and accident, injury, and illness.
Stress Pattern Mapping
Stress Pattern Mapping (c) is a process which was developed by Dr. Cynthia Yesko. Mapping takes place within individual, couple, family, and group counseling sessions. It is an ideal exercise for those who wish to rework old stress patterns that can interfere with growth and wellness into a more updated pattern that makes it easier to navigate ordinary stressors and extraordinary challenges.
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Wellness Program for First Responders
The Holistic Therapy Institute offers a First Responder Wellness Program. It is ideal for helpers who work with others’ stress and trauma, including those in fields such as medicine, law, child trafficking recovery, mental health, caregiving, law-enforcement, life and fire safety, and education. The wellness program explores the following: how stress and trauma impact those we help; how working with others’ stress and trauma impacts the helper; and how wellness consultation, first responder counseling and relaxation techniques can help to reset the body’s natural relaxation response.
