📍 California – Dr. Cindy Sholes, Ph.D. – Menlo Park
Contact directly:
3705 Haven Avenue, Suite 131
Menlo Park, CA 94025
📞 650-704-1252
✉️ DrCindy@mindwaveinstitute.com
Meet Dr. Cindy Sholes
Are you looking for neuroscience-informed hypnosis and transformational coaching near Menlo Park, California?
Biography: Dr. Cindy Sholes holds a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of California, San Francisco. Since 2003, she has helped clients explore emotional patterns, strengthen resilience, clarify personal goals, and create more supportive habits.
Her approach combines her scientific background with hypnosis, coaching, guided imagery, mindfulness, and other complementary mind-body techniques. Rather than applying the same process to everyone, Dr. Sholes seeks to understand each client’s goals, challenges, and readiness for change before recommending an individualized program.
Dr. Sholes works with clients in her private Menlo Park office and through virtual appointments.
The rREST® Method
Dr. Sholes developed rREST®, which stands for Rapid Reprogramming of Emotional Stress Technique. It’s an integrative method drawing upon medical hypnotherapy, Neuro Emotional Technique®, guided imagery, mindfulness, and neuroscience-informed coaching.
The process is intended to help clients explore emotional triggers, subconscious associations, limiting beliefs, and habitual responses. It may support clients in developing calmer and more deliberate ways of responding to stressful situations.
Areas of Focus
Clients may contact Dr. Sholes for support involving:
- Stress management and emotional resilience
- Anxious feelings and emotional reactivity
- Confidence and self-worth
- Limiting beliefs and self-sabotaging patterns
- Personal and professional development
- Leadership and executive performance
- Motivation and goal achievement
- Weight-management habits
- Mind-body awareness
- Life transitions and personal purpose
- Habit change
- Burnout and overwhelm
She also offers talks, workshops, and educational programs addressing happiness, leadership, personal performance, brain wellness, the mind-body connection, and weight-management behavior.
Education and Professional Training
Dr. Sholes’s published background includes:
- Ph.D. in Neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco
- Certified Medical Hypnotherapist
- Certified Brain Health Coach
- Transform30 Lifestyle Coach
- Extraordinary Coach
- Training or certification in Neuro Emotional Technique®
- Emotional Freedom Techniques
- Interactive Guided Imagery
- Muscle testing
- Instant Miracle®
- Inspirational speaking training with Les Brown
- Member of the National Guild of Hypnotists
Appointments
Dr. Sholes offers:
- Individual in-office sessions
- Private virtual sessions
- Executive and personal-development coaching
- rREST® sessions and multi-session programs
- Classes, presentations, and workshops
The number of sessions needed depends upon the client, objective, and complexity of the concern.
Contact Dr. Cindy Sholes
Mindwave Institute
📍 3705 Haven Avenue, Suite 131
Menlo Park, CA 94025
📞 650-704-1252
✉️ DrCindy@mindwaveinstitute.com
🌐 www.DrCindySholes.com
Contact Dr. Sholes directly to confirm the office address, current availability, program options, fees, and whether virtual services are available in your location.
Independent-Practice Disclosure
Mindwave Institute and Dr. Cindy Sholes’s practice are independently owned and operated. Dr. Sholes is not an employee, agent, or representative of Healthy Life Centers.
Healthy Life Centers recommends and refers prospective clients to independent practitioners but does not supervise or control their credentials, services, fees, scheduling, client relationships, professional decisions, advertising claims, or results.




