Cynthia Closs, DSW, LCSW, earned her Clinical Doctor of Social Work from the University of Pennsylvania and is a licensed clinical social worker in the state of Pennsylvania. She has practiced clinical social work for over twenty years, with a focus on complex trauma, childhood abuse and neglect, sexual violence and abuse, dissociative adaptations, and intimate partner violence. She also works extensively with survivors of cults and high-control groups and with queer, trans, and gender-diverse clients.