Introduction

Cynthia Mulder is a licensed clinical social worker. She has spent over 20 years working in various settings initially with victims of trauma and then as a family therapist for individuals with severe and persistent depression and personality disorders. The last 11 years of her career she was director of education and training at the Meninger Clinic, a private psychiatric hospital in Houston. Cynthia: "Shame is this universal emotion that nobody wants to talk about"