AUDRA R - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Co - Author
- Founder of Unicorn Life Training and Brighter Day Therapeutic Solutions
Althea Simpson is the founder of Unicorn Life Training and Brighter Day Therapeutic Solutions. With 15 years of experience in the mental health field, she is a Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor (RPT-S), a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), has a BS in Business Management, an MBA in Marketing, and an MSW in Organizational Leadership.
Althea's passion for helping individuals and families heal from traumatic experiences aided in her decision to return to George Mason University to complete requirements to become a Clinical Social Worker and specialize in trauma recovery. On top of all that, she studied Business Psychology Consulting at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology to enhance her skills as a speaker, trainer, professional coach, and group facilitator.
Althea manages to find time for her love of old television shows and traveling to places that have great food, to include her favorite cupcake shop.
Job Titles:
- Clinical Social Worker
- Supervisor
- Co - Author
- Founder of It Takes
- Founder of Outspoken Counseling
Carmen Jimenez-Pride is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor and a Registered Yoga Teacher. She earned a Bachelor of Social Work from Benedict College in 2004, and a Master of Social Work in 2005 from the University of South Carolina.
Carmen is the founder of Outspoken Counseling and Consulting LLC., a mental health agency that serves individuals, couples, and families.
Carmen is the founder of It Takes a Village, a non-profit organization focused on building resilience in families and decreasing early trauma.
In 2017 Carmen published No, No Elizabeth, her first publication and first book in the Elizabeth the Adventure series. Elizabeth Makes a Friend, the second book in the series was published in 2019.
Carmen is the creator of Focus on Feeling© a multicultural play therapy curriculum focused on social and emotional development.
Job Titles:
- Co - Author
- Owner and Lead Consultant at MLC Consulting
Margaret is the owner and lead consultant at MLC Consulting, LLC and the president of Mending Life Concepts Empowerment Group, Inc, a 501(c)3 organization serving adversely affected populations at the intersection of spirituality and emotional wellness.
Maria Davis-Pierre, LMHC is the founder and chief executive officer of Autism in Black Inc. This organization aims to bring awareness to autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and reduce the stigma associated with the diagnosis in the black community.
As a licensed therapist, Maria primarily works with parents to provide support through education and advocacy training. Her passion for working in the field stems from her personal journey with ASD when her daughter received the diagnosis at a very early age. In addition to therapy, Maria dons many other titles including coach, speaker, advocate, and most recently author.
Maria's unique approach to coaching and counseling exemplifies her drive and motivation toward greater acceptance and overcoming the barriers and personal struggles associated with raising a child on the spectrum. Connect with her today and allow her to partner with you through your ASD journey.
Michele Mikki Jones is a published author, speaker, poet, and advocate. She holds a B.S. in Social Work from Norfolk State University. Michele is the founder of Michele's Visual Imaginations and Lupus 365.
As a speaker and advocate, Michele focuses on healthy living, healing, and self-care. She seeks to empower women with coping skills and techniques that aid in the healing process, and places emphasis on cultivating and protecting healthy relationships.
She is active in her community and maintains member ship s in several societies and business organi zation s.
Mrs. Cynthia Williams-Bey, a native of Brooklyn, New York, is the CEO & Founder of Heaven Sent Childcare, LLC and Spring Forth, LLC. She is a published author and recipient of ACHI Magazine's 2016 Author Of The Year Award. She has been featured on the podcast Young Women on a Mission and on the Instagram page of the PBS Television Network for her work and leader ship in her community. She also serves as Outreach Director for Liberation Church. Williams-Bey, one of nineteen siblings, is married and has five children.
Job Titles:
- Executive Producer of the TJMS
Job Titles:
- Co - Author
- Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Nydia E. Guity is a native of the Bronx, New York and identifies as Garifuna. Nydia is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LSCW) by profession and co-author of the book, Black Therapists Rock: A Glimpse Through the Eyes of Experts. She is also th e creator of www.MsGuity.com - formerly www.yournaturalhairapist.com - a website created for black women to encourage self-confidence and acceptance, overcome emotional barriers, and cultivate natural, outward beauty. Her own decision to embrace her natural hair in 2007 punctuated her evolving commitment to emotional and physical health, and inspired her mission to encourage other women of color to love their inherent, unique beauty. She credits her own process for her strengthened ability to discern and forgive.
Job Titles:
- Co - Author
- Professional Counselor and Owner of Brighter Days Therapeutic Services
Patricia Dennis is a Licensed Professional Counselor and owner of Brighter Days Therapeutic Services, possessing several years' experience working in crisis intervention, the field of domestic violence, and providing outpatient therapy. She is also a Certified Grief Recovery Specialist who understands the importance of grief and mourning in relation to our overall mental health. Her personal life journey has ingrained in her a natural ability to help those with unresolved grief. Patricia endeavors to help others move through their grief and not become stuck in the process. Part of Patricia's mission is to normalize and remove the stigma of grieving and mourning within our communities by providing trainings, workshops, and other social opportunities for open communication in a safe, non-judgmental environment.
Patricia is positioning herself to be a motivational speaker for grief issues and a facilitator of grief groups in her private practice.
Job Titles:
- Clinical Social Worker for the District of Columbia
- Co - Author
Job Titles:
- Clinical Social Worker, Neuroscience
- Co - Author
Renetta D. Weaver is a Clinical Social Worker, Neuroscience Coach, writer, and speaker with internationa l reach. She has cultivated a clinical focus on interpersonal conflict and forgiveness, borne of her own process and path to sustainable health through significant, permanent weight loss. Affectionate ly known as the ‘Unstuck Queen,' and the ‘First Lady of Integrative Mental Health and Wellness,' she is an adoptee, and childhood trauma survivor.
Sonia James holds a B.B.A. in Healthcare Management and has over twenty years of experience in the healthcare industry. She is also an Independent Beauty Consultant with Mary Kay Cosmetics. She is a resident of Virginia and the proud mother of a college junior. Her contribution to this book is her first foray into writing and publishing, and she readily speaks of the empowerment sharing her story has afforded her.
Job Titles:
- Co - Author
- Life Coach, Consultant
Tamala Floyd is a psychotherapist, life coach, consultant, and speaker. She received a Master of Social Work from the University of Southern California. Her work focuses on women's trauma and relationship issues. She provides individual coaching to women, business consultation to therapists, and speaks on subjects related to mother/adult child relationship challenges and the effects of emotional wounds on mothering.
Tamala coaches her clients through healing emotional wounds, improving their mothering, and creating healthy, satisfying relationships. Tamala knows this subject intimately as she had to overcome her own wounds and reconcile her relationship with an adult daughter. She is committed to helping women who struggle in relationships with their adult children, especially those who suffer through estrangements.
Tamala has been married to her husband, Ernest for 20 years and they have five adult children between them.
Tania Bruneau is a blossoming individual rooted in faith, love, and perseverance. The mother of a precious eight-year old boy whom she defines as the catalyst to freedom, she's also a therapist, life coach, yoga instructor, and team leader. She is passionate and dedicated to empowering others to channel their inner royalty to reach self-love, respect, and freedom.
Tania attained an MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at the University of Bridgeport. She has embraced life's challenges as her foundational compass in her personal and professional life. Along with techniques learned, she uses her passionate approach in talk therapy to help people feel safe to navigate internal and external challenges. While guiding people to understand the benefits of creating and maintaining healthy, energetic boundaries, people also gain perspective on the many shapes and forms of self-care.
Job Titles:
- Administrator
- Co - Author
- State Leader
Winifred A. Winston is a special education school administrator, educator, author, speaker, advocate, and business coach. She is also the founder of Dyslexia Advocation™, which seeks to educate, empower, and equip African-American parents with tools to support their children with dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, or other language learning differences. The organization serves populations lacking access to accurate information about dyslexia interventions and instructional strategies.
Additionally, Winifred is a volunteer state leader for a dyslexia grassroots organization and co-founder of their local advocacy and support group for parents and children in Baltimore City, Maryland.