Meredith Mendes
Meredith Mendes is an alternative healer from Massachutsetts (working in Rhode Island), USA.
How long have you been practising?
I started my business on a part-time basis back in 2003, when I worked for a primary care physician/oncologist/hematologist who was open enough to my ideas to let me start my business in his office, on the side. It took off from there and I moved to my own office a few years later.
What sort of practitioner are you?
Alternative healing with a focus on empowerment through intuitive guidance, hypnosis/guided imagery; and healing/empowerment groups; I recently took the Rewind Technique online course through Uncommon Knowledge-an amazing tool! I also have a fast-growing worldwide clientele via email readings, all through word of mouth-no advertising- which I love!
Right now, most of my clients are seeking intuitive guidance, yet I am trained in alternative healing/Reiki and hypnosis and get clients for REWIND, belief work, or other hypnosis issues. While not a medium, I usually am able to connect with loved ones who have passed and I’ve helped people make peace with loved ones who have died unexpectedly, via hypnosis-amazing work!
Yet I’ve battled chronic illness over the past few years, and want to help others tap into their innate healing abilities through hypnosis, belief work and clearing out negative emotions that can contribute to disease.
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I just moved into a new space with plenty of room for groups and workshops, but also do a lot of work online, from home.
What problems/issues do you treat most frequently?
People who are stuck and seeking clarity regarding “what’s next” in their lives, who are repeating the same issues over and over, and unable to see viable options clearly. People who sabotage themselves through negative, self limiting thinking.
What are your biggest frustrations running your practice?
Getting so busy with email readings that I have little time to plan groups and workshops. Working via email has its advantages, and I love it, but I want to focus more on empowerment groups in the future.
What do you find hardest about your daily work?
Working with people who want a “quick-fix” without taking responsibility for their lives or choices, who want to know “When will I be happy?” or “What’s going to happen in my life?” not realizing that happiness is a CHOICE and that what happens next in their lives largely is up to THEM.
Do you find your professional body supportive and helpful?
I am a bit of a lone wolf, and need to get more involved with professional organizations and trainings – that’s one reason I’m grateful for Uncommon Knowledge, which enables me to take amazing courses online and connect with like-minded souls, via the internet!
How do you balance work and life? Stress management/avoiding burnout…
I need to work on that. I’m very lighthearted, not prone to stress, yet I love what I do so much that I could spend most of my day focusing on it…
I sometimes have to force myself to take time out to walk my dog, and spend time in nature. I balance work through other interests including photography, reading, writing, cooking, listening to music and relaxing with family and friends; as an empath I no longer allow myself to see too many people per day as it can be too much for me.
I learned this the hard way when health issues knocked me down several years ago. On bed-rest for a few months, in constant pain, I found myself responding to client pleas for help at all hours of the day and night, via email, until I had nothing left to give. Huge lesson for me in self care and limit-setting!
What frustrates you most about the way mental health is dealt with in your country?
I worked in the mental health field for 6 years, both in direct care and administration, and I constantly felt angered-and frustrated-by the stigma attached to chronic mental illness.
There is so much ignorance-inspired fear among the general public, along with a tendency to label people, and promote medication over a “get to the root of the problem” approach within the system.
More times than I care to recall, I’d be walking in a public setting with a client with schizophrenia, only to hear a passerby shout to me, ‘Hey…what’s wrong with him…or her ?” as though they weren’t people who could think, hear, feel… As a freelance writer at that time, I did what I could to educate the public about mental illness through articles and editorials, but it never was enough. People fear what they do not understand.
Can you tell us about your most uplifting experience treating a recent client? (anonymously of course!)
I don’t “treat” people per se, but help them tap into their own insights and intuition. I have a big bookshelf at work filled with beautiful cards from clients thanking me for helping them to make powerful changes or “see things” differently.
I do nothing but share my own perceptions while encouraging clients to access their own inner guidance. A few years ago I “met” a lovely woman from Japan who was enrolled in college in NYC. She wrote to me seeking guidance about her life path, but she also confided in me about an eating disorder.
Over time, she learned to honor her own inner guidance enough to create a life she loved, moving to Hawaii to study yoga. I felt inspired looking at her Facebook page, with daily updates like, ‘I’m in love with my life!”
Her card hangs on my office wall with the others, “Meredith, finally I am starting to see what I want to do with my life and I am more relaxed. And surprisingly I don’t have that problem/ eating disorder anymore. It just disappeared one day. I was fighting over that problem for over 10 years and suddenly it stop… I’m super surprised too… I cant even believe i had eating disorder. any more…. I think I started to accept my self the way I am and start to take better care of myself. I did as you suggested and I finally feel the peace inside of me. So thank you. You definitely helped me to find patience and trust in life. Thank you, Thank you!”
Some people change quickly; others take years, but there is nothing more exciting than standing on the sidelines, witnessing lives transform through changes in perception combined with the courage to ACT on those perceptual changes!
You can read more about Meredith’s work here.
Pictured above: Merediths’s therapy room.
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About Mark Tyrrell
Psychology is my passion. I've been a psychotherapist trainer since 1998, specializing in brief, solution focused approaches. I now teach practitioners all over the world via our online courses.
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