Meet Dr.Brian

Hi. I’m Brian Mendenhall, an Osteopathic psychiatrist based in the Dallas - Fort Worth, Texas area. I’m an Army brat from the Appalachian Foothills of Kentucky and Southern Ohio. I love reading, music (all types as long as it’s good— from John Lee Hooker to Johnny Cash), going on adventures with my boxer, and doing Muay Thai for exercise. Like most people I’ve had my fair share of getting knocked down and getting back up in life. I’ve learned that it’s the getting up part that matters most. I have a dry sense of humor that gets me into trouble sometimes. I also have a personal Zen meditation practice for almost twenty years.

Things I believe:

• The body and mind have an innate ability to achieve balance and oftentimes heal themselves

• Each individual is an integrated unit of body, mind, and spirit

• In the body there is an inseparable relationship between structure and function

• Body health is brain health

• Preventing disease in the first place through aiding resilience and the ability of your body, brain, and mind to achieve balance is equally as important as treating disease in my book

• There is great strength to be found in the principles of Stoicism and in believing in a cause or a power greater than ourselves

• And most of all I believe that we all have it in ourselves to change and achieve our own greatness through discipline, structure and patience.

I am also influenced by the timeless wisdom found in Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Zen Mind Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki, and Art of War by Sun Tzu among others. In fact, my practice is built on principles that emphasize resiliency, mindfulness, and strategic life navigation. This is because I know it works.