Sheron Gittens, MAT, LLMSW, MPH Candidate
Psychotherapist • Educator • Public Health Practitioner
About Sheron
My career has never fit neatly inside a single discipline.
For more than twenty years, I have worked across education, mental health, public health, wellness, training, and health promotion in the United States, Japan, and Saudi Arabia. At various points, I have been a teacher, trainer, curriculum designer, facilitator, public health professional, psychotherapist, and consultant. Across every role, one question has remained constant:
What helps people thrive?
The answer became more personal than I expected.
Over the last several years, I navigated experiences that touched nearly every dimension of wellbeing—parenthood, partnership, education, trauma recovery, identity, belonging, financial strain, and rebuilding community. More than once, life required me to begin again. Some of the experiences that shape my work most deeply are not topics I studied from a distance. They are realities I have lived. Those experiences did not happen alongside my professional development. They became part of it.
Today, I believe that struggle is not a sign of moral failure, and needing support is not a sign of weakness. They are part of the human experience—and often the very experiences through which growth, connection, and resilience emerge. I have been the student, the teacher, the helper, the person needing help, the advocate, the caregiver, the parent balancing competing demands, and the person learning how to start over. Those experiences strengthened my belief that people cannot be understood through a single lens nor reduced to a diagnosis, challenge, role, or chapter of their lives. My work is informed by both professional training and lived experience. Together, they have shaped how I understand wellbeing, resilience, identity, belonging, and change.
Learning what helps people thrive has shaped every stage of my career and ultimately led to the creation of Bloom Integrative Wellness. Because over time, I came to understand that people are rarely struggling because of just one thing—and they rarely thrive because of just one thing either.
Mental health is connected to relationships.
Relationships are connected to culture.
Culture is connected to identity.
Identity is connected to belonging.
Belonging is connected to opportunity.
And all of it influences how we move through the world. Human beings are complex. The support we offer them should be too.
Why Bloom Exists
Bloom was born from a growing frustration with approaches to health and wellbeing that treat people as if they can be separated into neat categories.
Mental health here. Physical health there. Education over there. Work in one box. Relationships in another.
Real life doesn't work that way. The people I have worked with over the years—students, parents, educators, helping professionals, healthcare trainees, leaders, and organizations—have taught me that our challenges rarely exist in isolation.
Burnout affects relationships. Stress affects learning. Food affects energy. Belonging affects mental health. Systems affect opportunity. Purpose affects resilience. Everything is connected.
Bloom was created to reflect that reality.
Part of that understanding comes from my own experience. I have seen what happens when multiple dimensions of wellbeing are strained at the same time—when caregiving, work, education, finances, relationships, identity, health, and belonging all compete for attention at once. I have also experienced how difficult it can be when people are expected to navigate those challenges largely on their own. Those experiences reinforced my belief that meaningful support must address the whole person, not just the most visible problem.
Rather than asking, "What's wrong with you?" I am often more interested in understanding what has happened, what matters to you, what strengths already exist, and what conditions will help you to thrive.
A Career That Crosses Disciplines
One of the greatest gifts of my professional journey has been the opportunity to work across fields that are often treated as separate.
Taught in classrooms.
Designed curriculum.
Facilitated difficult conversations.
Led professional development initiatives.
Supported students navigating rigorous academic pathways.
Worked in public health and health promotion.
Coached behavior change.
Provided psychotherapy.
Developed wellness programming.
Consulted with organizations committed to creating healthier and more supportive environments.
Each experience expanded my understanding of what helps people learn, adapt, heal, and grow. Today, that breadth of experience allows me to see patterns that may be missed when we look through a single lens. It also allows me to meet people where they are—whether they arrive seeking support for anxiety, burnout, a life transition, academic stress, leadership challenges, relationship concerns, or simply a desire to live with greater intention and wellbeing.
What Makes My Approach Different
I've never been interested in staying inside a single discipline. Life is more complicated than that. Human beings can never be reduced to just one thing. Perhaps that is why I have always been drawn to people whose lives do not fit neatly into a single category—students who are also caregivers, first-generation learners, people navigating multiple cultures and identities, professionals experiencing burnout, parents rebuilding after major life transitions, and those trying to find their footing after life has taken an unexpected turn.
Their circumstances may be different, but they often share a common challenge: navigating complexity in a world that prefers simple explanations.
The way we understand, support, and care for people should reflect that complexity. My work draws from psychotherapy, education, public health, health promotion, behavior change, lifestyle medicine, and culinary health. Not because every client needs all of those perspectives. But because different people need different things. Sometimes meaningful change begins with insight. Sometimes it begins with skills. Sometimes it begins with community. Sometimes it begins with rest. Sometimes it begins with learning. And sometimes it begins with finally being understood.
I believe effective support should be evidence-informed, culturally responsive, trauma-informed, and grounded in the realities of people's lives—not idealized versions of how we think life should work.
What I Believe
I believe that people are more than a diagnosis. More than a job title. More than a relationship status. More than a challenge, a setback, or a difficult season. I believe that what we call "wellbeing" is shaped by far more than individual choices. It is influenced by culture, identity, relationships, opportunity, environment, access, systems, and lived experience. I believe that context matters. I believe that healing and growth are not linear. I believe that progress does not have to be dramatic to be meaningful. I believe that people deserve support that respects both their strengths and their struggles. Most of all, I believe that every person deserves to be seen as a whole human being—not a problem to be solved, a diagnosis to be managed, or a single story to be told.
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