About

MonyChann “Mo” McCarty is a writer, keynote speaker, mental health advocate, podcast host, ministry leader, and founder of Unorthodox Therapy, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit created to support women on their healing journeys.

Born in America to Cambodian parents marked by the Khmer Rouge, Mo carries a story that is both deeply personal and widely resonant. Her work gives language to inherited trauma, generational pain, identity, faith, mental health, and the kind of healing that requires both truth and courage.

Through her forthcoming memoir, Born in America, Raised by the Khmer Rouge, Mo shares a rarely told perspective: what happens when genocide follows a family into the next generation. Her story explores the impact of survival, silence, family violence, cultural identity, and the restoring power of Jesus Christ.

Mo’s work extends beyond the page. She has spoken, partnered, and served in spaces connected to city leadership, government officials, the Mayor’s Office, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, community organizations, faith-based gatherings, women’s empowerment spaces, and mental health initiatives. These rooms have helped shape her voice as both a storyteller and a bridge-builder someone who can speak to lived experience, leadership, healing, and community impact with depth and care.

As a mother of neurodivergent children, Mo also brings a deeply personal understanding of advocacy, caregiving, special education, accessibility, and the emotional weight families carry while navigating systems that are not always built with them in mind. Her lived experience gives her work a grounded and compassionate lens, especially when speaking about mental health, family dynamics, trauma, resilience, and the need for community support.

As the founder of Unorthodox Therapy, Mo bridges the gap between women seeking support and local women-owned businesses offering holistic mental health and wellness services. Her work is rooted in the belief that healing does not happen in isolation; it happens through truth, safe spaces, faith, access, and community.

Mo is also a lifelong learner and student of her craft, continually deepening her understanding of mental health, trauma, leadership, faith, communication, neurodivergence, advocacy, and human transformation. Whether through speaking, writing, podcasting, nonprofit work, ministry, or community advocacy, her mission remains the same: to create spaces where people feel seen, equipped, and reminded that their story does not end with trauma.

At the center of all she does is her faith in Jesus Christ, whose restoring power turned her pain into purpose, her silence into voice, and her survival into a calling.