“I hope to be for others what I needed during hard times: a role model that speaks openly to the humanness of mental health experiences.”
-Joëlle Perras
About us
Struggles-2-Strengths Consulting was founded on Joëlle Perras’ transformative process rooted in personal experience with mental health, in particular their recovery* with bipolar disorder. As a professional educator, peer support worker, and artist, Joëlle has developed an alchemical, transformative process of turning struggles into powerful tools that can support others.
Struggles-2-Strengths is dedicated to helping individuals and organizations turn their challenges into opportunities for growth.
Our approach is guided by our values of connection, creativity and resilience, and informed by cognitive-based tools and acceptance-based practices which provide practical tools for personal and professional development.
Recovery* refers to an ongoing, personal process of self-responsibility and care in seeking wellness. It does not imply being “cured,” but rather living a meaningful and supported life alongside one’s mental health condition.
Our guiding values
We often think of “others” when we think about connection.
Here, at Struggles-2-Strengths Consulting, we help you create a meeting point within yourself first.
Connecting to self leads to self-awareness, and self-love.
Creativity is often thought of as something “artistic”.
We believe that creativity refers to the act of creating, bringing something into being that was not previously there.
Everyone is creative. All of us have creative potential.
Resilience does not mean we push beyond our capacities.
The true meaning of resilience is to come back to an original state, to regain form.
We support you on your journey to come back to your self, to the state of your full potential.