Stronger Together
Stronger U partners with individuals, organizations, and care practitioners who are committed to building more sustainable, humanizing approaches to wellness and community care. Through personalized coaching and consultation, trauma-informed education, and values-aligned event support, we help people develop non-carceral practices that align with their values — and embody the care they want to witness in the world.
Our services include strategic consulting, immersive certificate programs, asynchronous non-carceral education, group and individual coaching, and customized event programming.
Each offering is designed to support complex trauma survivors and the practitioners and leaders alongside them — with integrity, sustainability, and impact.
Welcome. Together, we’ll build care practices and systems that are grounded in humanity, designed for sustainability, and aligned with your values. And when you invest in your own growth, you help expand access to care for someone who otherwise couldn’t afford it.
Featured Offering
Every Purchase Gives Back 5x in Community Care.
At Stronger U, we do things differently. We don’t just talk about community care–we multiply the dollars we receive to give away five times more in free services and resources. Why?
Because we believe that liberatory, non-carceral support should never be gatekept.
Reducing barriers to access isn’t a percentage of our profits—it’s the foundation of our work.
Each month during Q2 2026, our paid offerings helped fund:
- Hundreds of open-access educational resources
- Peer support to 1200+ community members
- 10+ seats in workshops and coaching programs
- 6 full scholarships for THRIVE Lifeline trainees in our certificate program
If you believe in sustainable, inclusive, and non-carceral care, you can help us continue showing up and sharing out!
- Book individual or group coaching sessions
- Purchase on-demand courses or personalized certificate programs
- Sponsor someone’s access to care
- Donate toward our THRIVE Lifeline practitioner education fund
- Share this work with someone who believes in liberated access to non-carceral care!
Who do we serve?
Stronger U works alongside people and organizations committed to building more humanizing, sustainable approaches to care.
Individuals
Personalized support for complex health and life journeys.
Long-term, collaborative coaching for people navigating chronic illness, disability, trauma, neurodivergence, marginalization, and changing health needs.
Practitioner Education
Build the skills to provide more humanizing care.
Education for professionals supporting complex human experiences—from medical exercise and movement to clinical, somatic, peer, and crisis support.
Consulting and Organizational Support
Build care systems that are sustainable, values-aligned, and human.
Strategic consultation, customized training, retreats, and organizational support for teams and leaders working to transform how care is delivered.
Events, Speaking, and Community Care
Bring relational, trauma-informed education into your community.
Customized workshops, conference sessions, immersive programming, and event-based support designed around the needs of your people.
Why Stronger U?
Our work is grounded in 30 years of direct service with multiply marginalized communities and informed by the education of thousands of non-carceral practitioners. We bring a deeply trauma-informed, intersectional approach to complex health and care challenges—and invite people to go deeper in their healing, leadership, and practice.
30 years
Client care experience
60,000+ hours
Coaching hours
1000’s
Practitioners educated
20 years
Client longevity
What can you expect?
Technical expertise + lived experience
We don’t believe one replaces the other.
Autonomy + accountability
We support meaningful change without coercion, shame, or punishment.
Structure + flexibility
You deserve mutually vulnerable care that relationally honors your sacred dimensions while remaining aligned to your unique goals.
Scope + humanity
We don’t need to become everything someone needs in order to remain genuinely present and useful.
Individual care + collective impact
Our community care model means that every time you invest in your own growth, you are making care more accessible to others.
Stronger U is a grassroots organization run by and for people with multiply marginalized identities. We proudly partner with THRIVE Lifeline, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) through a revenue sharing model that supports both community sustainability and access to care.
Through this partnership, Stronger U donates funds, peer support, full certification program scholarships, free training, and infrastructure to THRIVE. THRIVE in turn offers free, anonymous, identity-affirming mental health support, including suicide and self harm deescalation. We also collaborate with THRIVE to create paid opportunities for marginalized practitioners and community members, using our services as a channel for economic justice.
Having personally experienced the harm, dismissal, and erasure often found in traditional systems, Stronger U was founded to offer non-carceral alternative approaches to wellbeing – grounded in lived experience, professional expertise, and collective care.
Our philosophy, “Stronger Together,” is more than a motto – it’s the heartbeat of our co-active, community-centered approach. In everything we do, we strive to honor and support your fully humanity.
Testimonials
If you have benefited from our services and would like to share a testimonial with us, we would be honored. As a small, multiply marginalized team, we rely on community support to broaden our audience and continue providing the services that we do.
I so appreciate this space and all the work that you all are doing. I’m just so relieved to be able to talk about my experiences somewhere without worrying about being labeled or pathologized. ~Anonymous
As a DEI leader for many years, I’ve taken a lot of bias trainings. This is the first workshop where I’ve ever been given a model to use and been given the chance to apply that during the workshop. Thank you for creating this material. ~A.B.
The [certificate program] structure really addresses diff learning styles. I liked how I could read something, then watch a video, reinforce my learning with a quiz, and then practice and get feedback. It felt very full circle. The examples were super helpful along with the charts. And then to have reflection questions for us and further practice in the weekly assignments was sooo helpful. ~G.C.
This was an excellent presentation. We need open communications as a plural community about SI and about alternatives to psych admissions. I’m so impressed with Ryder Fox! ~Anonymous
Ryder has been a truly inspirational figure in my life and I’m so grateful for being guided through tough moments. It’s really rewarding to know that you’re molding a space where others don’t have to fight as hard to stay alive and feel respected. ~Q. G.
I started working with Ryder after suffering a couple of TIAs and a full stroke. Ryder worked with me to get my cholesterol, triglycerides, and blood pressure to healthier numbers, re-strengthen my right side, and deal with excess body fat. ~P.G.