Rebecca U. Romo, Psy.D.
My Transition From Psychotherapy to Training and Coaching Services
Over the past 2 decades, I have worked with incredible humans on their path to healing and more whole versions of themselves. In a style that was engaged, thoughtful, and integrative, I sought to tailor all therapies to fit the style that worked for each client (and that was supported through research and solid science whenever possible) while never losing the “human” element.
My extended journey as a mental health practitioner led me to working with adults experiencing a broad range of issues and a love for working with adults with ADHD neurology. I particularly enjoyed helping adults who were seeking help with clutter challenges, perfectionism, life overwhelm, effective time management and facilitating other executive functioning skills building. I also have decades of specialized experience working with survivors of sexual assault, the chronically suicidal, those managing overwhelming life circumstances, and adult survivors of interpersonal traumas in childhood including physical, sexual, emotional abuse, and neglect.
Over the past decade, I began developing my own non-pathologizing model for working with adults often diagnosed with ADHD. The more I applied the A-Brain model with clients in the therapy room, the more I saw people grow into fuller versions of themselves, and the more people stayed to have a place to experience this model in the course of their lives. Their lives improved, not because we fixed them or treated their "illness," but because the model honored who they were and simply illustrated how the gifts and challenges of this neurology function and how to best work with it. Every person told me, as they were leaving to move on in their own lives, that the model transformed them - and I felt a need to bring it to more people.
The more I stepped out of the medical/mental health model, the more I encountered other incredible communities where "my people" were. I began seeing how my model applied into entrepreneurial, creative, visionary, innovator, and other expansively-minded communities - and I wanted to bring it out of my tiny office and into the public domain.
In 2022, I closed my practice to in-coming clients in order to pursue my passions for mental fitness training, A-Brain course creation, coaching, and community building. In 2024, I retired my license to focus on training and coaching full-time.
I have loved my time in private practice and in every training and community mental health facility in which I've worked. I am grateful to all of you who walked the journey with me, those of you who trusted me with your most difficult moments, and for all of the ways I have grown through your willingness to bring me alongside. I always viewed our time together as sacred space and the work we did with great reverence. I marvel at your bravery and and am grateful for your openness to make yourselves and this world a better place.
Thank you.
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