Welcome!
I'm Dr. Lenore Matthew.
I'm a Dr. of Social Work and a practitioner and researcher, with expertise in trauma, brain/body/spirit healing, and intuitive awakenings as well as evaluation and evidence-based practice.
Previously, I worked in research and evidence-based practice with international organizations, including the United Nations.
In my work today, I use a grounded science-meets-spirit approach to help people process trauma, pain, and stuckness, and open up to a life of joy, emotional freedom, and intuitive connection.
My approach stems from a deep-seated personal journey beginning with the traumatic loss of my late husband, which prompted the unexpected awakening of my intuitive abilities.
This awakening opened my path of melding science with spirit to heal through profound trauma — and ultimately guided me to my life purpose: Bringing forth a melded scientific-plus-spiritual and intuitive approach to trauma healing, to help others find their way forward after profound pain, and align with their own light, purpose, and joy.
My Intuitive Awakening
Intuitive Awakening Amidst Traumatic Loss
In 2020, my late husband unexpectedly passed away by what I call "warningless suicide" (meaning, there were no clear indications before his passing that he was in distress, let alone suicidal).
The night that he crossed, I began receiving visceral communications from him from the afterlife. I could see him. Feel him. Hear him. Interact with him... in real-time.
I spent the better part of early grief skeptical and in denial (I'm a researcher and evidence-based practice specialist, after all!). At many points, I asked myself, family, and friends, “Am I going 'crazy'?!" But deep down, I knew these experiences were real — and were guiding me forward in a positive way.
The communications from my late husband continued. He gave me information explaining his passing, which I was able to verify with objective information. He also led me forward with profound insights and emotional guidance from the Other Side.
A month after the communications began, other people in the spirit world began visiting me, relaying messages for their surviving loved ones. Although I'd never met any of these departed people, somehow I knew who they were and who in the physical world they were intending to reach. When I relayed their messages to those surviving loved ones, the messages checked out every time.
With time, I came to realize my experiences had begun several months before my late husband's passing. I had begun to have predictive dreams and visions. But, I didn't understand these experiences at the time. So, I blocked them out. Only after my spouses's passing did I piece together that I had intuitive abilities that had suddenly come online.
I spoke openly about my experiences. I published articles and gave interviews on my mediumship and my late husband's messages, and how they shaped my grief, trauma recovery, and life after loss for the better.
I knew I couldn’t be the only one experiencing this. And I wasn’t. Soon people began contacting me with their own stories of communication with loved ones who had passed. What held constant across all of our experiences was that our connections to the other side weren't holding us back. Rather, they were helping us heal and move forward.
To better understand myself and my experiences, I formally trained in evidential mediumship. However, I always knew my intuitive abilities and spiritual awakening would somehow connect back to my left-brained, research-centered self, and to my service in the field of social work.
My intuitive connection led me down a path of myriad somatic, spiritual, mind/body, and energy-based healing. On that path, I discovered Brainspotting, a fast-acting, deeply effective brain/body modality, and a derivative of EMDR. It completely changed my life — and was the science-meets-spirit modality I knew I needed. It impacted me so profoundly, I became certified in the modality, folding my intuitive and spiritual approach into the work.
I have since developed my own flavor of Brainspotting, using an Expansion perspective that blends spirituality and intuition, and focuses on enhancing the bright, powerful resources in one's life, and the higher purposes and meaning they dream of bringing forward.
I've come full circle in my work today, in that I integrate my left-brained mental health and researcher self with my right-brained intuitive abilities and spiritual frame.
Through my journey, I found my soul purpose: to blend science and spirit, to help people uncover their higher purpose.
I do so by seamlessly blending science and spirit.