Dr. Mendy Neralic
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST, WORKING AT THRESHOLDS
I work as a clinical psychologist, currently in 1-1 practice while building toward collaborative, community-centred containers for Women’s Rites of Passage.
My approach integrates trauma therapy (DBR), somatic depth work, and symbolic exploration. I draw from cognitive-behavioural foundations, depth and archetypal psychology, and body-based practices. I also work with dreams, mythology, ancestral patterns, and contemplative traditions as doorways to what lies beneath surface narratives.
The reframe at the heart of this work: you're not broken, you're uninitiated.
What looks like individual pathology can be incomplete passages through inevitable life thresholds: biological crossings, trauma ruptures, or creative callings.
While these are personal journeys, we’ve lost sight of how these occur within greater historic, social and cultural experiences ~ and archetypal cycles.
This means we’ve lost the cultural containers for these personal journeys, leaving women feeling a familiar but inexplicable existential loss and grief.
Women feel abandoned as they travel these unwitnessed and unguided.
My major project is answering Clarissa Pinkola Estes’ call to reconstruct these archetypal journeys within the psyches of girls and women. Not for individual healing, but as collective work that requires community, not just individual therapy.
I am experimenting with how to hold both individual therapeutic practice and women's rites of passage, through scholarly + field research, building the frameworks for the collaborative containers this work demands.
The book and immersions to come will explore how we facilitate (not fix) these passages together.
Currently based online from Brisbane - Turrbal-Jagerra land, working with individuals while developing collective frameworks.
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CERTIFICATIONS
Dr Mendy obtained her Bachelor of Arts (Hons 1) with a double major in Psychology and her Master's and PhD in Clinical Psychology and Clinical Neuropsychology at the University of Queensland, Australia.
Mendy has completed countless professional development trainings across clinical psychology, neuroscience and somatic therapies, including:
Schema Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Couples Therapy, Attachment, Polyvagal Theory, Hakomi.
And has completed:
Level 1 & 2 training in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy through Dr Pat Ogden.
Level 1, 2 & 3 trainings in Deep Brain Reorienting with Dr Frank Corrigan.
Dr Mendy has always been dedicated to maintaining her practice and skills in yoga, yoga therapy, body-centred approaches to healing, and energy medicine with masters such as Donna Farhi, Elena Brower, Amy Weintrub, Leslie Kaminofff, Rod Stryker, Tias Little, Shiva Rae, Anodea Judith, and Cyndi Dale amongst others.
Dr Mendy carries a deep interest in Depth and Archetypal Psychology and reads and studies widely with particular tutelage via the works of Marion Woodman, Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Maureen Murdock, Angeles Arrien, Michael Meade, James Hollis, Robert A. Johnston, and James Hillman.
Dr Mendy is also an initiate of Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estes and has attended in person trainings with Dr Estes in Colorado, USA.