Meredith is a registered member of the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers and the Ontario Association of Social Workers. She holds a Master of Social Work degree from Memorial University, a Bachelor of Social Work Degree from York University, a diploma in Drug and Alcohol Counselling from Fleming College, and a certificate in Conflict Resolution and Mediation from Trent University. Before opening a private counselling practice, she spent over a decade providing counselling services to adults, teens and children in various social service agencies and the public school board in Peterborough and surrounding areas.