Meredith McDaniel, MA, LCMHCS is a Trauma Informed Narrative Therapist, Supervisor, & Clinical Director of M+H serving families, couples, women, men, teens, & children in the Lake Norman area. Licensed in North Carolina (NC-8254), she is a member of ACA, ACES, CAPS, & LCCNC. Meredith utilizes an integrated psychodynamic approach rooted by Carl Jung, blended with Narrative and Internal Family Systems. She is also a local speaker + author and published her debut book In Want + Plenty in 2020 with Revell, a division of Baker Books, which guides the reader on a wilderness journey deeper into their story to find their true identity.

Meredith is currently working towards her PhD in Counselor Education & Supervision at Concordia University at Irvine, CA via the Townsend Institute founded by Dr. John Townsend of the best-selling book Boundaries. She has a heart for educating and supervising the next generation of Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselors who are ethically minded & skillfully sound. Meredith earned her Masters in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Gordon Conwell in Charlotte, NC in 2010 and earned her full licensure in the years following graduation. She has completed additional trauma informed training including: Internal Family Systems training under Bessel van der Kolk & Richard Swartz via PESI, Level I Narrative Trauma Care at the Allender Center in Seattle, WA founded by Dr. Dan Allender, Somatic EMDR, & is clinically certified in Suicide Bereavement by the AFSP. Her current doctoral studies are equipping her to teach counselors + supervise both masters level students & post-graduate associates in the field.

Meredith has vast experience working in a variety of settings with adolescents & adults over the past 20 years in various settings. She currently counsels in her private practice, Milk + Honey Counseling, PLLC & supervises grad/postgrad students in the field of counseling working towards licensure. In addition, she has served at a local private school as a guidance counselor for K-12th grades. She has a heart for people specifically who are navigating transitions from various seasons of adolescence, college/career, marriage, parenting, + beyond to discover who they are & live the full life they were intended to live. She leans into narrative theory which reminds us that no one must remain stuck in their story if they are willing to look back, look around, and look ahead by imagining what could be. Meredith has a heart for healthy leadership in all fields of helping which informs her additional specialty of working with caring counselors, social workers, pastors, life coaches, teachers, nurses, doctors, and leaders who are willing to consider their own story and the impact their lens has on those they counsel, pastor, and lead in the various settings where they work. The somatic lived experiences of helpers is the primary focus of her research.

Meredith’s dissertation & doctoral research centers around: well-being of those who care for others.

Meredith offers hope in dark places, helping others taste the land of milk+honey right here on earth, by creating safe spaces that serve as a healing balm over time to find calm in the chaos.