Your path to

Wellness starts here

You don’t need another self-care checklist. You need a strategy that honors your brilliance and your burnout.

One that sees your full humanity not just your productivity.

That’s what we do here.

If we truly want to create a Culture of Wellness, we must be willing to closely examine the systems and structures that stand in the way of honoring wellbeing for all individuals and communities particularly those members of society who have historically been denied equal access to power and opportunity. In order to accomplish this goal, we must be willing to self-examine our own personal relationship to wellness in a way that builds on our strengths and honors our humanity.

SMART Wellness offers trauma-informed, liberation-centered support for gifted and high-achieving Black professionals who are done performing wellness and ready to reclaim their time, energy, and joy. We offer emotional wellness coaching, leadership strategy, and curated intensives and retreats. Whether serving individuals or organizations, our work begins with one core belief: Your success shouldn’t come at the cost of your wellbeing.

Meet our

co-founders

Meet our

co-founders

Meet our

co-founders

Summer Esquerre

Summer Esquerre, PCC, is a gifted somatic leadership coach and co-founder of SMART Wellness. With roots in Fortune 200 leadership, she understands the cost of performing excellence in systems that reward output over authenticity. She helps high- achieving Black professionals release burnout and reclaim success on their own terms. If you’re ready to return home to yourself, Coach Summer will meet you at the threshold.

Dr. Reba Peoples

Dr. Reba Peoples is a board-certified psychiatrist who created SMART Wellness as the support she once needed but couldn’t find. It is a liberation offering for those of us who are navigating the weight of Black excellence in systems that were never built for us to thrive. This is a space where healing isn’t rushed, and success doesn’t come at the cost of our well-being.

Summer Esquerre

Summer Esquerre, PCC, is a gifted somatic leadership coach and co-founder of SMART Wellness. With roots in Fortune 200 leadership, she understands the cost of performing excellence in systems that reward output over authenticity. She helps high- achieving Black professionals release burnout and reclaim success on their own terms. If you’re ready to return home to yourself, Coach Summer will meet you at the threshold.

Dr. Reba Peoples

Dr. Reba Peoples is a board-certified psychiatrist who created SMART Wellness as the support she once needed but couldn’t find. It is a liberation offering for those of us who are navigating the weight of Black excellence in systems that were never built for us to thrive. This is a space where healing isn’t rushed, and success doesn’t come at the cost of our well-being.

Find Your Space with Us

Restorative Leadership Coaching:

This private coaching experience is for mission-driven leaders who are ready to stop performing wellness and start embodying it from the inside out. Designed for those who carry both responsibility and vision, this offering helps you realign with your core values, regulate your nervous system, and lead in ways that are sustainable, soul- honoring, and rooted in integrity. Because when you model true well-being, you give your team permission to do the same.

Organizational Wellness:

Our Signature Talks & Immersive Learning Experiences blend neuroscience, somatics, and cultural wisdom to help leaders and teams recognize burnout, restore balance, and reimagine success. These sessions spark reflection, build emotional capacity, and equip organizations to cultivate cultures where everyone can thrive.

Strategy and Consulting:

We support organizations in creating cultures where wellness isn’t performative but built into the foundation. This thoughtful, wellness-centered guidance is ideal for organizations ready to support their people more meaningfully. Through trusted advisory, wellness audits, and tailored strategy sessions, we help teams create conditions that prioritize belonging, sustainability, and well-being.

SMART Wellness Practitioner Training:

This specialized training program is intended for therapists, coaches and other healing professionals who want to integrate the SMART Wellness framework into their client work. This training offers a deeper dive into the core SMART Wellness principles of sleep, movement, awareness, recognition, and tailored inputs, through the lens of emotional well-being, cultural relevance, and nervous system restoration.

WHAT MAKES SMART WELLNESS UNIQUE?

The SMART Wellness philosophy is healing centered, experiential and rooted in liberation.

By harnessing both the power of African diasporic cultural wisdom and the gift of modern brain science, the SMART Wellness framework offers practical tools to help you build a wellness practice that nurtures your body, restores your emotional balance, and reconnects you to your spiritual center.

Healing Centered

This approach centers your lived experience, cultural wisdom, and inner resilience. Rather than pathologizing your past, we explore what’s sustained you and how to transform survival patterns into practices that honor your wholeness. It’s not about fixing you. It’s about remembering your power, reclaiming your story, and designing a path forward that aligns with your deepest values.

Experiential

SMART Wellness is both science-backed and spirit-led. We bring clinical expertise in functional psychiatry and trauma-informed care, but we don’t position ourselves as the sole experts in the room. We hold space as both witness and guide, helping you surface the insights, patterns, and inner wisdom already within you. Together, we’ll co-create a path toward healing that’s both personalized and powerfully yours.

Rooted in Liberation

We don’t ignore the systems that enable dis-ease. Instead, we name them and honor the brilliance it took to survive. We critically examine the internalized patterns that have been shaped by chronic stress, trauma, and oppression, and work to rebuild wellness on your terms.

Healing Centered

This approach centers your lived experience, cultural wisdom, and inner resilience. Rather than pathologizing your past, we explore what’s sustained you and how to transform survival patterns into practices that honor your wholeness. It’s not about fixing you. It’s about remembering your power, reclaiming your story, and designing a path forward that aligns with your deepest values.

Experiential

SMART Wellness is both science-backed and spirit-led. We bring clinical expertise in functional psychiatry and trauma-informed care, but we don’t position ourselves as the sole experts in the room. We hold space as both witness and guide, helping you surface the insights, patterns, and inner wisdom already within you. Together, we’ll co-create a path toward healing that’s both personalized and powerfully yours.

Rooted in Liberation

We don’t ignore the systems that enable dis-ease. Instead, we name them and honor the brilliance it took to survive. We critically examine the internalized patterns that have been shaped by chronic stress, trauma, and oppression, and work to rebuild wellness on your terms.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

What types of organizations do you work with?

We partner with mission-driven companies, nonprofits, academic institutions, and health systems that are ready to move beyond performative wellness and invest in meaningful, sustainable culture change. Our approach is especially impactful for high-performing Black professionals and other historically under-resourced leaders.

Do you only work with Black professionals?

While our frameworks are intentionally designed to support Black leaders and high-achievers navigating racialized stress and performance pressure, our work benefits anyone seeking sustainable, culturally responsive approaches to wellness, leadership, and organizational care.

Can we customize your offerings to fit our team’s needs?

Yes. We work collaboratively with each client to ensure all offerings are tailored to your specific goals, challenges, and organizational culture. Whether you’re seeking a one-time workshop or an ongoing partnership, we’ll co-create something intentional and impactful.

What is the SMART Wellness framework?

SMART stands for Sleep, Movement, Awareness, Recognition, and Tailoring Inputs. It is a culturally rooted and neuroscience-informed approach to emotional well-being. We use this framework to help people and organizations build wellness practices that are sustainable, effective, and grounded in lived experience.

Are your sessions available virtually or in person?

Yes. We offer both formats depending on your needs, location, and group size. For teams looking for deeper immersion, we also offer travel-based retreats and experiential intensives.

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