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Cynthia Moore

Cynthia started working with Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy in 1986. She began the first chapter of SMART Recovery in Toronto in 2012.. In the years since then, she has forged relationships with local groups and worked to build the SMART Recovery brand in Ontario. She has brought in national mental health organizations such as CAMH and CMHA , and she has helped these and other organizations to access training for their service providers and to use SMART programming in their treatment centres. She has facilitated over 672 Thursday 4-Point Addiction Support meetings, and with her husband David, she started the Family & Friends program. They have facilitated over 336 family support meetings.

Cynthia served on the Parental Advisory Committee for the Family Navigation Project at Sunnybrook Hospital in 2011. In 2012 CAMH invited her to join MAYN, the Mental Health and Addiction Youth Network, in 2014 she served on the St. Michaels Hospital Project ECHO Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes Committee. She has been presenting and teaching  evidence-based programs to hospitals, government agencies, and health organizations for over sixteen years. Her passion and commitment to advocate for families with mental health and addiction problems is based on her lived experience, and it has been honed through the study of Motivational Interviewing, Positive Reinforcement CRAFT Family Addiction Training, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Acceptance Commitment Therapy, Schema Therapy and Mindfulness practices.. Cynthia served on the SMART Recovery International Global Branding and Training committees from 2022 to 2024. She has served as the Regional Coordinator for Ontario from 2017-2025.

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