Our Story New - Wellness Empowered

Our Story

Forged in Fire...

A few years ago, a group of retired police, first responders, and veterans started a non-profit, Frontline Strong, to provide education on mental health and PTSD awareness, no-cost mental health therapy, and other resources to support trauma healing for individuals struggling with or impacted by PTSD, anxiety, or depression.

They saw a need for a new digital mental health platform that would empower individuals in their wellness journey.

They teamed up with health care providers, clinicians, and engineers to create Wellness Empowered.

Best customer support

Money back guarantee

Lowest cost provider

Meet Our Leadership

Antonio Santana

Chief Experience Officer

Carl Burnside

Chief Sales Officer

Dan Yourk

Chief Operating Officer

Indira Davidson

Chief Financial Officer

Jerry Berlanga

Chief Executive Officer

John Sun

Vice President, Enterprise Solutions

Mark Linton

Chief Marketing Officer

Phi-Long Le

Chief Clinical Officer

Proactive Mental Health Support

Empowering mental wellness through real-time insights that empower healing.

Goal Tracking and Collaboration

Set mental wellness goals, and track progress with your providers.

Open Line Communication

Stay connected with peer counselors and clinicians through text, voice, and video calls.

By Antonio Santana, Chief Experience Officer

I was twenty when I learned the weight of a rifle,

the sound of footsteps on foreign soil,

the way death lingers in the air, thick and silent.

I saw life slip away in the space of a breath,

and I wondered if purpose was just another word

for surviving what others could not.

Later, I traded the desert for city streets,

a badge in place of a uniform,

but the ghosts followed—

shadows stretching long under streetlights,

faces blurred in the rearview.

I carried their stories,

the ones no one wanted to hear,

the ones that made sleep feel like a war of its own.

Pain carves deep,

but if you let it, it shows you what’s underneath the flesh—

what you were made of all along.

Purpose isn’t found in quiet places,

not in the absence of struggle,

but in the fire, in the breaking,

in the nights that hollow you out until all that’s left is what was true from the start. I thought I was made for war. I thought I was made to protect. But maybe—just maybe I was made to understand pain, to sit with it, to learn its language, so I could guide others through the dark.

God never promised easy. He never promised clear roads or light burdens. He promised purpose, woven through every scar, written in the losses, the grief, the doubt. A story unfolding in the hands of the One who never wastes pain.

And maybe that’s what life is— not answers, not clarity, but the willingness to keep walking, trusting that every step, every wound, is shaping you into the man you were meant to be.

Ready to start your journey towards better mental health?
Download our app now.

Wish to join our platform? For further assistance,
drop us an email at

weteam@wempowered.com