I Am Roy Mong.

Call me a storyteller, a healer, or a dumpling fanatic.

Whether it’s in my writing, coaching, or even in the occasional tattoo request, I advocate for Landback, Black liberation and reparations, and liberation of all created beings facing oppression, violence, exploitation, silencing, erasure, and forced displacement.

I help Black, Indigenous, and other people of color experiencing high levels of ongoing stress, the impact of trauma, and/or anxiety find relief so that they can feel (re)grounded in an authentic sense of self and genuine connection to others.

My ongoing learning and work follow in the tradition of individuals like Frantz Fanon, bell hooks, and Ignacio Martín-Baró, focusing on collective liberation and healing, co-creating as we disrupt and dismantle.

Whether you’re a Black, Brown, Indigenous, Asian, multiracial person of color with all of our beautiful intersectional identities–you’re in the right place.

What gives me hope.

Womanist ethicist Emilie Townes said, "Liberation and freedom are not the same. Liberation is a process. Freedom is a temporary state of being. Liberation is dynamic. It never ends." Applying this to psychoanalytic thinking gives me hope that decolonial applications à la Fanon can inspire more expansive ways of being that empower human flourishing for marginalized communities.

With my non-profit leadership background and ongoing study in a graduate Counseling Psychology program at The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology, I hope to use my position as a psychology student and therapist-to-be, voice as a person of Color, and ancestral knowledge to advance mental health justice in community.

When I am not working, you’ll find me writing flash fiction and other essays on my Substack, adventuring somewhere new with my family, or scouting out the next dumpling spot.