A Different Kind of Clinical Perspective

Most therapists working in this space treat the wounds, which matters deeply. Dr. Cynthia does that too. But her forensic psychology background means she also understands the systems: the legal dynamics, the custody evaluations, the courtroom behavior patterns, and the ways high-conflict personalities use every available structure to extend the conflict.

You'll walk away understanding what is happening, why it is happening, and what communication, documentation, and positioning will actually protect you and your children.

You Don’t Have To Do This Alone

If You're Here, Something Isn't Adding Up.

• You're trying to figure out whether what you're dealing with is addiction, narcissism, or both.

• You're in Al-Anon, therapy, and have consumed all the resources but it’s still chaos.

• You're in the middle of a divorce that is anything but normal.

• You're co-parenting with someone who’s creating conflict or playing Disneyland dad and you're cleaning up both.

• You are the functioning one. The capable one. The one holding it all together and you're exhausted in a way that burnout doesn't even begin to cover.

• You've been gaslit for so long, you're not sure you can trust your own perception anymore.

  You’re not the problem.

  You need someone who understands the full picture.

  That's why I do this.

Dr. Cynthia Edwards-Hawver, Psy.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist based in Pennsylvania with 30 years of clinical and forensic experience working with mothers navigating narcissistic relationships, addiction dynamics, and high-conflict divorce.

A Cornell graduate, she brings both academic depth and personal familiarity to this work, including what it actually means to parent while healing.

Dr. Cynthia's Areas of Expertise

Narcissistic Relationships And Emotional Manipulation: You've been trying to name what's been happening for years. That's where the work begins-understanding the patterns, the gaslighting, and why it's been so hard to trust your own experience.

Addiction Dynamics In Relationships: Is it the addiction? Is it his personality? Is it both? Most women in this situation are asking exactly that question. Untangling the two changes everything about how you move forward.

High-Conflict Divorce and Custody Dynamics: High-conflict divorce is not a difficult divorce. It is a whole different category of divorce. Even some of the most experienced attorneys don't always have the tools to navigate the psychological warfare happening underneath the legal process. Dr. Cynthia's forensic psychology experience means she understands what's happening inside and outside the courtroom.

Parallel Parenting With a High-Conflict Ex: When co-parenting isn't safe or possible, parallel parenting isn't a choice-it's survival. It means structuring your children's lives around someone you can’t be in the same room with. It means watching your kids come home different after his weekends and not knowing what to do with that. It means grieving the family your children deserved while trying to protect them from the reality they got. Dr. Cynthia helps women build the strategies and emotional footing to navigate it without losing themselves in the process.

Narcissistic Burnout Recovery: Narcissistic burnout is a term Dr. Cynthia coined and it’s more than just stress. It is what happens after years of managing someone else's chaos at the expense of everything else-your sleep, your sense of self, your ability to trust your own mind. Recovery isn't a weekend retreat or a self-care routine. It's relearning basic things you thought you knew. Getting a full night of sleep. Letting yourself have space to fall apart. Remembering who you were before all of this. For many women, the work goes even deeper, back to patterns of attachment, codependency, and trauma bonds that were never fully healed and quietly shaped relationships that followed. It is slow, unglamorous, but deeply necessary work that Dr. Cynthia was trained and called to do.

Something is wrong. You can feel it. You just can't fully explain it yet.

Dr. Cynthia Edwards-Hawver, Psy.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist helping mothers navigate narcissistic patterns, addiction dynamics, high-conflict divorce, and co-parenting with a difficult ex.