That question has fueled both my education and my healing journey. I am a Licensed Counselor with over 10 years of experience in community and clinical mental health. But more than titles or credentials, I’m someone who has walked through the messy, relentless search for identity and found my way back to resonance.

For years, I tried on personalities, trends, outfits, belief systems  anything that might reveal my “true self” or fill the love I couldn’t give myself. I worked, dated, and showed up in life wearing costumes, doing the performance, and going home depleted. My identity felt fused with pain and struggle, and it weighed down every relationship, every opportunity, every part of living.

I started my healing in therapy talking endlessly about my problems. But the more I told the story, the more it felt glued to me. Even with meditation, retreats, psychics, yoga, and spiritual devotion, the mask wouldn’t come off.

Everything shifted when I stopped trying to add more, and took a deep dive into myself.

It wasn’t a quick fix, but it was more powerful than decades of talking about my pain. Slowly, the costume started to peel away. And underneath wasn’t a brand-new version of me it was the real me, the one I had forgotten but always carried inside.

That’s the heartbeat of Rooted Resonance: helping you become the true empowered version of yourself.