About Cynthia Perkins, M.Ed.
Working with Complex, Often Overlooked Health
Patterns for Over 20 Years
Cynthia Perkins works with individuals dealing with complex or persistent health issues that don’t fully make sense or respond as expected. My focus is not on symptoms in isolation, but on identifying patterns and exploring how multiple factors and systems may be interacting beneath the surface.
My perspective is shaped not only by professional training, but by decades of personal experience. I grew up in an abusive, high-stress, traumatic environment and went on to struggle with severe anxiety, depression, addiction, and compulsive behaviors. These experiences gave me a deep understanding of how layered and interconnected these issues can be.
What ultimately changed things for me was not a single solution, but identifying multiple underlying factors (such as diet, gut health, environmental exposures, neurotransmitter balance, and the effects of stress and trauma) and seeing how they were interacting. Over time, the symptoms that had once dominated my life—including severe anxiety, depression, and addiction—began to resolve.
I have now maintained nearly four decades of stable, craving-free recovery from those issues. That experience is what shaped the way I work today—looking beyond isolated explanations to understand the bigger picture and what may be driving it.
Health Consultant, Educator, and Author
Helping you make sense of complex, unresolved symptoms
I understand firsthand how complex and layered chronic symptoms can be. My background includes both professional training in mental health and decades of personal experience navigating anxiety, addiction, and other persistent challenges.
What I’ve learned through both experience and training is how much misinformation and oversimplification exists in this space. I take a straightforward, no-hype approach—focusing on what’s realistic, what’s often overlooked, and where attention is most likely to matter.
Areas of Expertise
- Complex, unresolved, or overlapping symptoms
- Anxiety, nervous system dysregulation, and related mental health patterns
- Digestive and gut related patterns (including SIBO, candida, IBS, etc.)
- The impact of diet and blood sugar regulation on mental and physical health
- Environmental toxins and their influence on biological and neurological function
- The interconnected nature of stress, biology, nutrition, and environmental influences
- Neurotransmitter-related imbalances and their broader effects
- Patterns related to cravings, addiction, and compulsive behaviors
- Chronic stress and its physiological and psychological effects
- The impact of trauma on long-term mental and physical health patterns
Education and Training
Cynthia Perkins’ background includes formal education in psychology and counseling, along with additional training focused on functional and systems-based approaches.
M.Ed., Community Counseling
Kent State University (1995-1998 )
B.A., Psychology, cum laude
Youngstown State University (1989-1995)
Certificate of Completion - Functional Medicine
Academy of Functional Medicine & Genomics 72-week Course (October 2012)
Certificate of Completion - MBSR
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction 8-week course (50 hours of instruction, reading, and practice) with a certified MBSR instructor and based on the program founded by Jon Kabat-Zinn at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. (August 2018)
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