Who We Are
Welcome, Cyclebreakers! I’m Shawnnell Batiste, founder of Choosing Empowerment, Mental Wealth Coach, PTBS Podcast host, and Your Favorite No Bullshit Therapist. I started this work as a Licensed Professional Counselor helping people heal. Over time, the vision grew. Today, I am building a Mental Wealth ecosystem that brings together therapy, coaching, education, community, media, resources, and real conversations that challenge people to think, choose, and grow. Because healing matters, but healing is only the beginning.
Healing Is Only the Beginning
Choosing Empowerment is an innovative virtual Mental Wealth and Resource Agency created to help individuals, couples, families, and communities heal, grow, connect, and break the cycles that were never supposed to follow them this far. We bring therapy, coaching, relationship education, support groups, community programs, professional training, media, and practical resources together within one culturally responsive ecosystem. Our work centers marginalized and historically underserved communities whose experiences have too often been misunderstood, stigmatized, or overlooked by traditional systems. We do more than provide services. We break barriers by expanding access, challenging stigma, offering affirming spaces, and building relationships with people and community resources that support continued growth. You may come here looking for a therapist. You may find a workshop, a community, a podcast, an internship, a resource, or a whole new way of seeing yourself.
However you enter, the goal is the same: helping you recognize your power, strengthen your relationships, and make choices that move you toward the life you deserve.
This is more than mental health care. This is the mental wealth revolution.
ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS! ACT NOW!!
Choosing Empowerment has openings for New Clients!!
Who We Serve
We Specialize in Breaking Barriers by Providing Access to Mental Health Care for Marginalized and Disenfranchised Communities so they can Break Cycles.
The cycle STOPS with You! Begin Your Journey to Mental Wealth.
Those who walked before you were not afforded the opportunity and access
to the tools and resources needed to safely travel their healing
journey.
"The Two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why." - Mark Twain
Team
Choosing Empowerment was born to care for the marginalized and disenfranchised through barrier-breaking, high accountability, No BullShit Mental Health, and Wellness Services!
Shawnnell Batiste, LPC
Founder & CEO | Your Favorite NoBS Therapist & Mental Wealth CoachBrittany Muoneke, LPCA
Lead Internship Program Coordinator & Mental Wealth TherapistNancy Martinez-Guzman
MSW: Master of Social Work | Bilingual-Habla españolaRashel Burton
Empowerment Pedagogy Specialist & Mental Wealth CoachJasmine Fletcher
Family & Couple's TherapistClarian Murphy
Mental Wealth Coach & Whole Mamas Project FacilitatorTestimonials
Couldn't have found Shawnnell at a better time. She has been such a great help to me in every way needed and more. She is somebody that genuinely cares about her clients and will go above and beyond to make sure they get the help they deserve.
- A.C.
Ms. Shawnnell is amazing! As a person she makes you feel like you have known each other forever. She makes me feel seen and heard. It's a great feeling to actually feel like you have someone in your corner cheering you on. She is great at what she does. I am so blessed to have crossed paths with her and have her to help me on my journey of healing to become a better version of myself everyday.
- A.L.
Interns Welcome
Looking for a mental health internship rooted in culture, healing, and real-world growth?