The Menda Directory of Therapists
What is Menda?
A virtual, integrative pain program. We help people with joint pain, migraines, and digestive disorders reverse their symptoms.
Menda combines the latest science based techniques for resolving symptoms; IFS, ACT, Pain Reprocessing.
Why are we building this directory?
Pain is intricately linked to difficult emotions, anxiety, and stress - all through the nervous system. Most of our participants have unresolved emotional traumas; we refer them to a certified therapist to see alongside our program.
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What happens next?
Menda participants within your state will contact you seeking a therapist to work with alongside our 10-week program.
You can also refer patients to us. We share free pain education resources to patients to help them make the link between their mental and physical health. Patients can also join the full program to improve pain, anxiety and depression about symptoms, sleep, and more.
Menda Medical Team
Dr. Les Aria, PhD is a pain psychologist at Kaiser Permanente. He's spent 20 years specializing in treating complex symptoms that don't respond to usual care.
Dr. Stacie Lloyd, PhD is a pain psychologist and educator by training. She's leading efforts to train partner clinics, coaches, psychologists, and physicians.
Dr. Mel Pohl is an addiction specialist and former medical director of the Las Vegas Recovery Center. He's an author on pain and opioid addiction.
Dr. David Schechter is a sports medicine physician and a mindbody expert. He trained under Dr. John Sarno and has been treating patients with psychophysiologic disorders for 20+ years.
Dr. Amir Ramezani is a psychologist at the Veterans Affairs and a teaching faculty member at UC Davis. He specializes in compassion-based mindfulness treatments.
Dr. Jean Howell is a mindbody trained primary care physician in Northern California. He's treated pain patients in the Indian Health system and the California prison system.
Our story
Menda Health is founded by 3 former chronic pain sufferers. We bounced around from doctor to doctor for years before finding pain neuroscience techniques. Today we can say we've healed from back pain, migraines, IBS and more.
This program was created to help others understand how pain reversal is possible and make it accessible to all. We'd love for you to join us in this mission.
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