Twenty years in the field. Still in the chair.

Rodrego Way has spent more than twenty years doing the part of this work nobody applauds: sitting across from someone who did not want to be there, and staying in the room until something changed.

That is the whole origin story of the nickname. Long before there was a brand, there were men who wouldn’t say the word “therapy” out loud but would absolutely talk to a coach. Someone in their corner. Someone who would tell them the truth about their game film and still expect them to win. The title arrived because clients kept handing it to him, and it stuck because it was accurate.

In 2020 — a year that sent the entire country looking for help at once — he founded Mind and Therapy Clinic, PLLC. He is a Licensed Professional Counselor-Supervisor and a Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor, licensed to practice in Texas, South Carolina, Georgia, and Louisiana. Four states, four boards, four sets of continuing requirements. He keeps all of them current because he is still practicing, not because it looks good in a bio.

He is not a speaker who used to be a clinician. He is a clinician who speaks — and every room can tell the difference within about four minutes.

That distinction is the reason agencies, organizations, and conference committees keep calling. The frameworks he teaches are the ones he uses on Tuesday. The case examples are not borrowed from a textbook. When a supervisor in the back row asks the complicated version of the question — the one with a real person and a real liability attached — he can answer it, because he answers questions like that for his own supervisees every week.

And when the training day ends, he doesn’t go home and stop. He shows up in fraternity halls, lodge basements, committee meetings, and advocacy groups — usually unpaid, usually with men who arrived skeptical. That service work is not a line on a résumé. It is where the material gets tested.