At the School for Intuitive Ascension, we’ve witnessed profound transformations—from therapists, coaches, healers, and spiritual seekers who felt the call for something more. Through our powerful blend of emotional clearing, trauma healing, and intuitive development, lives have changed—hearts have opened, paths have awakened.
Read how our students and graduates have unlocked their intuitive gifts, stepped into their purpose, and begun leading with clarity, compassion, and confidence.
“I thought it’d be like all the others—but Merit’s teaching cracked me wide open. As a Black man, I’d never explored my emotions like this. Now I read energy with accuracy and lead with compassion.”
— Kier Johnson, Healthcare Professional
“31 years sober, and still something was missing. With these tools, I finally cleared my anger, reconnected to my soul, and started helping others heal.”
— Tina Arredondo
As a person, I have always known that I have intuitive gifts. Taking the classes at The School For Intuitive Ascension really helped me feel more comfortable with my innate gifts and open up to the vast learning that is available to us, around the subject of intuition. I learned many new ways to channel my gifts and open up my inner sight with confidence and grace. This is a serious course with serious intentions, I use some of the things I have learned on a daily basis. And skills have helped me just become a better me.
— Elizabeth Deraad
I’ve been a client of Merit’s and have taken the Goran Technique I. Taking Merit’s Intuitive Therapy 1 was absolutely amazing. I was able to learn tools that have helped me not only feel grounded and clear, but also expand my intuition and harness my ability to read others. I now have the confidence to read others in a safe and effective way.
— Ariena Kaneshima
I am now more honest with myself. My level of self-love has been kicked up a notch and I do things now for my highest & best, not to please others. I am not as critical of myself and therefore am much less judgemental towards others as well…which is a blessing to all! I no longer entertain the thought that I am helpless because I have had the experience that I am very powerful. Using the tools in this class I can clearly see, listen, feel and know beyond a shadow of doubt.
— Leona Rustin
After working with Merit I have cleared some life stoppers. She creates a space that is loving and allowing. I trust Merit. She uses all of her tools when counseling, coaching and healing. Her psychic abilities are the best I have experienced. I have just completed Merit’s Intuitive Therapy 1 class. She is such a great teacher and communicator I am enrolled in her Level II Clairvoyant class. After this class I feel empowered and powerful in my own life. I currently am enjoying a high quality life.
— Jo Anne Goodsell
Merit helped me realize with her course that my angels, spirit guides and source have been talking to me my whole life. Her technique helped me remove all energy in my space that wasn’t mine allowing me to know what was me and what wasn’t. Now I can tap into others energy and commune with their higher aspects to give them guidance to reach their highest and best self/ timeline.
— Brian Putnam
I am no longer angry at my father after a lifetime of trying to work through it. I tried counseling and other forms of therapy but nothing worked for me until I took this training. I also was able to get over the grief of my sister’s recent passing, go from a Jr. Deacon to a Pastor in my church, no longer need neck surgery, and don’t take painkillers anymore for my neck or back as I’m out of pain finally.
— Ernest Johnson
I used to be very angry about my divorce and towards my ex-husband. After using The Goran Technique, I cleared all my anger. I saw my ex-husband at the farmer’s market the other day, and I could talk to him in complete neutrality. I didn’t think that was even possible.
— Teresa Maltese
If you’re ready to have your life change for the better, Merit is the right coach for you. It’s hard to put into words the difference she has made in my life and I am so very grateful. Merit is kind, compassionate and highly gifted. She has the ability to understand and empathize with people when others would run the other way. Some say she’s an angel and I would agree.
— Janice Hoffman, Funeral Officiant
I wouldn’t be married if it wasn’t for this training.
— Shelly Rodgers-Houser
I cleared my fear of flying forever in just a few minutes time.
— Jonathan Duran
I’ve come to meet Merit almost by accident a few years ago. Much like pretty much everything in my life, I follow my heart and the signs around me. I allowed her to enter my mind and we worked together for months on my issues. And it worked. She made a difference in my mental health where other professional therapists
couldn’t. Today, l’ve been living in Taiwan for almost 5 years, re-married to a beautiful wife and living a happy life full of beauty, peace and spirituality.
I cannot recommend her strongly enough. She’s magic.
— Silvio Porretta, Art Director
Working with Merit has transformed my life in so many ways. She helped shift and clear ancestral karma, trauma, patterns and anger. Clearing these patterns and energies allowed space for manifesting all the many blessings currently in my life. Merit is very intuitive, accurate and perceptive, and is an amazing counselor. I am forever grateful for her guidance, intuition, and compassionate heart.
— Dakota Markanian, Pilates Studio Owner
Merit helped me uncover and heal deep-rooted money and family patterns I’d carried for years. After one powerful session, someone who owed us nearly $100,000 since 2012 paid us back within a week. She also guided me through a painful realization about my daughter, freeing me from 25 years of emotional struggle. When my stepson passed away suddenly, Merit helped me clear the trauma within minutes. Her intuitive gift and mastery of the Goran Technique are truly life-changing.
— Marti Browne
Merit has been a friend, coach, and intuitive guide in my life since 2012. Her support has helped me clear major blocks, improve my health, and manifest what I truly desire. Her readings are always spot-on—whether about me or those around me. She’s deeply compassionate, incredibly accurate, and truly life-changing to work with.
— Teresa Maltese, Recruitment Agency CEO
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