Get 'Em Girl of the Week: La Shell Wooten

La Shell Wooten is a true native New Yorker. She has lived, loved and learned in New York City. Born and raised in the Bronx, Wooten still resides in her childhood home where she grew up.

Earning her Master’s degree in Social Work from New York University, Wooten went on to become a licensed therapist. Through her work in the medical field, foster care system and non-profit organizations such as the Children’s Aid Society and the New York City Mission Society, Wooten has helped a countless number of children, teens and their families.

Presently, Wooten works at a not for profit organization; Room To Grow, where she provides parenting support and childhood development education to the parents of children ages zero to three.

La Shell Wooten is also a licensed feng shui consultant. Her undying desires to assist people in living better lives and her strong beliefs in universal energy led her to branch out into this different form of therapy in 2001. Since then, she has been providing services to private clientele that allow them to feel more comfortable in their living space. By evaluating the energy of their space, Wooten recommends anything from color schemes to the decor for that particular space that improves energy in turn improving their lives. “I love providing this service for people. It improves productivity, health, communication, energy and much more,” she explains.

Wooten has found yet another way to give back to the universe – this time as an author. Her writing is a culmination of all that she has experienced in her career, life and especially motherhood. “I thought it was my job to teach my children, little did I know they would be teaching me so many important lessons,” said Wooten.

This heavy influence of her children on her life inspired her first writing project; a self-published series of children’s books, very appropriately titled Boomerang Bounce Books.

The series deals with the idea of karma or the “boomerang” effect of universal energy, in attempt to help children consciously think about their actions and the affects of their actions. The first two books in the series are titled “The Sharing Secret” and “Good Hands”. This is just the beginning of much more to come from La Shell Wooten as she plans to write longer stories as well as screenplays.