About Resilient Networks

Rooted in Relationship.
Built for Systems Change.

Hi, I’m Eduardo Fabian Moreno (they/them, he/him), a bilingual Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor and public health practitioner with deep roots in Western North Carolina and Mexico. My work lives at the intersection of individual healing and community transformation. Whether I’m in a counseling session, a school collaboration, or shaping a mental health protocol, my focus remains the same: to move toward sustainable care that honors identity, place, and possibility.

I founded Resilient Networks, PLLC in 2019 with the belief that healing is never just individual; rather, it’s relational, systemic, and deeply connected to the environments we live within. We are all part of overlapping networks: families, schools, communities, histories, institutions. When those networks are fractured, so is our ability to thrive.

This work is about tending to those connections – repairing what’s been harmed, strengthening what’s possible, and making space for care to move not just between people, but through systems themselves. I chose the name Resilient Networks because it reflects the vision I hold: that resilience isn’t just something we carry alone, it is something we build together.

Where Do You Come From?

I was raised in the Appalachian Mountains and carry roots that stretch into the landscapes of Mexico. That bicultural, bilingual experience shaped how I see people, and how I understand systems. I come from a place where resilience is inherited and tenderness often has to fight to be heard. My life has been marked by moments of disconnection and deep restoration. Both have taught me how essential it is to feel like you belong within yourself, within your community, and within the systems meant to support you.

Since 2017, I’ve worked in mental health with people across the lifespan – children as young as four, elders in their eighties, teens caught in school discipline systems, and families navigating the invisible weight of trauma. As a Clinical Mental Health Counselor, I’ve witnessed how deeply broken our systems can be, and how healing still finds a way to grow when relationship is prioritized.

But over time, I began to see that therapy alone wasn’t enough for lasting community change – at least not in the way I wanted to show up. I kept returning to these questions:
What would it look like to change the system altogether?
What would it look like to elevate the systems we all are apart of?

What if I were to look at these systems as alive – as unconcious living entities that we collaboratively live within, and add to over time.

That’s what led me to public health.

My path into public health emerged from a simple truth: therapy alone isn’t enough when systems are hurting. I began to see the ecosystem that we all live in as not something separate from ourselves, but in which we co-create and experience in return. I wanted to address what was upstream. So I returned to graduate school to pursue my MPH in Place-Based Public Health at UNC Gillings in August of 2024, with a mission to bridge clinical insight and structural change.

I can no longer see my work as healing individuals, but as helping communities and institutions remember how to care for each other more effectively. My story is both personal and political. I come from the margins, from spiritual rootedness, from a place where every voice counts.

I move with the belief that healing doesn’t happen in isolation; therefore, I do my best to bring with me a sense of community, shared value, and a deep commitment to collective care into every room, every conversation, and every system I touch.

What Do You Value?

I believe in:

• Care that honors people’s whole stories – not just diagnoses.
• Systems that reflect the needs and voices of the communities they serve!
• Work that is collaborative, curious, and unfinished – because healing isn’t linear, and neither is change.

My style is strengths-based, trauma-informed, as well as grounded in a deep respect and dignity for identity, context, and access. I work relationally and practically – whether I’m facilitating, designing, consulting, or listening.

What Drives This Practice?

You and our community drives this practice. The work I do would not be possible without the love, the heartache, and joy, the pain, and the evolving nature of what it means to exist – not alone but together. And wanting to make the most of it, for us and future generations. Each and every person I have ever met or interacted with, personally and professionally, has given this drive. I am hopeful those who want to get engaged center humanity in their own lives.

My Integrated Approach

By combining my training as a therapist with a public health lens, I work at the intersection of personal healing and community transformation. This integrated approach acknowledges that mental health is shaped by the larger systems – like schools, workplaces, policies, and communities – and that individual therapy must be complemented by upstream interventions.

Whether I’m sitting with a client or supporting a school district, I strive to honor personal stories while advocating for systemic change that supports collective resilience.

Beyond private practice, my work is expanding into training, consulting, and systems design. I’ve helped school districts develop suicide prevention protocols, created community-based mental health campaigns, and supported providers facing barriers to Medicaid enrollment. I’m currently collaborating with regional partners to build sustainable, inclusive wellness strategies across education and public health systems! It’s broad, but that’s the nature of networks!

My future work includes developing community-rooted trainings, building policy-informed implementation tools, and continuing to support frontline providers navigating complex systems.

I’m here to build and support resilient networks of care, of people, and of possibility!

If any of this resonates, read more here and I would love to connect.