Running The Human Race

Evelyn M. Leite, MHR, LPC, author of fourteen books, has served in the addiction and mental health profession for over thirty-five years. She has a private practice, Living With Solutions, owns a 501c3 named A Center for Training and Restoration, and holds workshops nationwide devoted to helping understand addiction and mental illness. Leite has developed training programs in codependency, grief, suicide prevention, conflict resolution and family systems and has been widely recognized for her humanitarian work as evidenced by her installation into the South Dakota Hall of Fame in 2008. She and her husband Allen Knapp live in Rapid City, South Dakota.

Evelyn M. Leite, MHR, LPC, is an author, counselor, and trainer with over thirty-five years of experience in the fields of addiction and mental health. Highly regarded for her seminars in multicultural counseling and education she gives special attention to issues with people from varying cultural and ethnic backgrounds. She has designed and implemented many family programs and is proficient in spiritual and grief counseling. A family systems therapist since 1980, Leite incorporates feelings and compassion in the therapeutic relationship with a wide range of experience in chemical dependency, addictions, co-dependency, and domestic, sexual, and spiritual abuse.

A member of Exceptional Keynote Speakers ((link hidden)) and a John Maxwell student, she is a soon-to-be a certified John Maxwell speaker. Leite is an experienced, engaging, and sought-after national speaker on her wide variety of mental health and addiction issues, known for bringing clarity, compassion, and practical help to her audiences.

Educationally, Leite holds a composite degree in social science from Black Hills State University and a master’s in human relations from Oklahoma. She also completed her two-year Spiritual Direction Training at Mount Marty College in Yankton, South Dakota. She served as a teacher and trainer for accredited college programs at Oklahoma University and Oglala Lakota College in Rapid City, South Dakota, and an adjunct counselor and consultant to an addictions and codependency treatment center in Port Hueneme, California.

Leite is noted for having attained success in trauma resolution, anxiety and depression, utilizing EMDR, (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), a psychotherapy treatment designed to alleviate the distress associated with traumatic memories. She has published works by Hazelden Education Center, Johnson Institute, and Community Intervention. In 2008 she was installed in the South Dakota Hall of Fame for her exceptional humanitarian work. She and her husband Allen Knapp live in Rapid City, South Dakota.

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