"I began working with Mendy during recovery from long-term complex PTSD, which had reached a point where sleep was constantly interrupted by nightmares and panic attacks, days filled with flashbacks, and extreme hyper-vigilance.  I was desperate for help, but repeated therapies had not provided any.  Mendy was a true gift to my life and mental health.  She listened deeply and, while not enabling, was as loving and compassionate as those who harmed me in childhood were not.  She let me talk until the heaviest pain was on the surface where I could begin to understand and work through it, and she introduced me to IFS, which gave me a way of holding my painful and still (at that time) shaming parts separate from my whole and wonderful Self while I worked with them.  She also very subtly helped guide me through understanding love (not what I’d previously called love), beginning with self-acceptance and self-love.  Also, and very unexpectedly, through this recovery period, I moved from being a self-proclaimed atheist to being deeply spiritual.  On day one of work with her, she told me that the wisdom and power to heal was not within her, but within me, and over time, I came to know that is true.  She referred to herself as a way pointer… I refer to her as a wonderful human being who’s done enough of her own work that she’s been able to very effectively guide me through my own.  I will add that I no longer have panic attacks, nightmares, and only rare flashbacks.  I continue my work, but life is infinitely better — lighter."