Meet Our Founder: Rebecca Romo, Psy.D.

After dedicating over 20 years to a fulfilling career as a psychologist specializing in adults with ADHD and survivors of childhood trauma, I found my spirit crying out for change.  

I loved the work - and the brave humans I was honored to work with who were willing to face their pain and struggle to reclaim their essence.  But, over time, I felt like I was drowning in every one else's life story.  I was burned-out.  

Somewhere along the line, I lost connection to my own expansive nature and what it needed to thrive.  I forgot to honor my unique wiring, listen to my own inner voice, and allow myself the capacity to dream and expand.  Caught up in the love of working with my clients where they each found pathways to live into their fuller potential,  I forgot about my own.

Maybe because I have ADHD wiring (even with my successes, I see this neurology play out daily) and have always been an out-of-the-box thinker, an empath, a spirit seeker, and a deep, deep feeler - or maybe because I worked closely with so many patients with ADHD, I found myself seeing different through-lines in the ADHD research I was reading - and different approaches from the treatment modalities I was given.  

Because I KNEW from the inside how this wiring FELT, what was challenging about it, and what was a true gift, it pained me to see so many struggling with feeling broken and less than - and to see how the frame of the medical model around it sometimes contributed to this diminished sense of worth.  

Over the years, I developed and honed a model that took the same research, removed the pathologizing of the differences - and just worked with "what is."  No judgement, no comparison.... we just worked with what it FELT like for the person on the inside with these differences and how to work with them in a way that valued their personhood as whole and complete - and not as a condition to treat, fix, or solve.  I called this having an A-Brain.  I began to view these neurological differences as part of a masterful evolutionarily design. 

I found that the A-Brain system, once understood, worked for many -  far beyond those with any ADHD diagnosis to include anyone whose unique system resulted in the experience of having MORE within their awareness than most folks.  I longed to bring this model to all folks who are expansive in mind, body, and/or spirit to build a world with less unnecessary adversity, more respect for differences, and to nurture more places for true belonging - one that honors ALL of our humanity - FOR our SHARED humanity.

You are here - at the very threshold of what that vision is building.  I hope you will come join me on the journey.  You see, I know from years of experience, that when you stand in your essence with honor for who you are - there is no limit to what you can do.  I look forward to showing you how you can love your essence, honor your nature, and bring your unique and precious gifts to the world.  

I am so happy you are here.

  - Rebecca