Elevating Wholeness with Dr. Tracee Perryman

103 Valerie Kelley-Bonner: “Not Your Ordinary Prevention Approaches”

July 31, 2024 Tracee Perryman
103 Valerie Kelley-Bonner: “Not Your Ordinary Prevention Approaches”
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Elevating Wholeness with Dr. Tracee Perryman
103 Valerie Kelley-Bonner: “Not Your Ordinary Prevention Approaches”
Jul 31, 2024
Tracee Perryman

This episode of Elevating Wholeness addresses the most serious of topics. Since Covid, suicides among African Americans have increased. What’s the path to prevention? Dr. Tracee Perryman speaks with Valerie Bonner, an experienced counselor who has been in the inner city trenches for years and understands the connections between depression, self-medication, and suicide. Ms. Bonner is a Certified Prevention Consultant and founder of her own consulting firm, Strategic Transitions Consulting of Michigan. 

Elevating Wholeness serves minority women with a knowing perspective on the challenges they face.  Guests provide coping strategies for career adjustment, management of life demands, and the resolution of difficult relationships. 

Hosted by Dr. Tracee Perryman, Elevating Wholeness is here to help its audience know when mental health treatment is necessary and identifies alternatives to opioid use and abuse through self-medication. 

 Each episode features distinguished minority and faith-based messengers. 

 Dr. Perryman is an Amazon Best-Selling author on issues impacting women, as well as a Licensed Professional Counselor. She is also CEO and Co-Founder of Center of Hope Family Services, Toledo, OH. Find out more at cohfs.org

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This episode of Elevating Wholeness addresses the most serious of topics. Since Covid, suicides among African Americans have increased. What’s the path to prevention? Dr. Tracee Perryman speaks with Valerie Bonner, an experienced counselor who has been in the inner city trenches for years and understands the connections between depression, self-medication, and suicide. Ms. Bonner is a Certified Prevention Consultant and founder of her own consulting firm, Strategic Transitions Consulting of Michigan. 

Elevating Wholeness serves minority women with a knowing perspective on the challenges they face.  Guests provide coping strategies for career adjustment, management of life demands, and the resolution of difficult relationships. 

Hosted by Dr. Tracee Perryman, Elevating Wholeness is here to help its audience know when mental health treatment is necessary and identifies alternatives to opioid use and abuse through self-medication. 

 Each episode features distinguished minority and faith-based messengers. 

 Dr. Perryman is an Amazon Best-Selling author on issues impacting women, as well as a Licensed Professional Counselor. She is also CEO and Co-Founder of Center of Hope Family Services, Toledo, OH. Find out more at cohfs.org

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