Joyce Marter, LCPC
When it comes to booking a meaningful speaker and trainer for your fundraising event, it is key to choose someone who specializes in vital topics that can help your audience become inspired to live more fulfilled lives. Today, more than ever, mental health and addiction are taking a front seat when it comes to important topics to address.
Why? Because one of five people has some type of mental illness and 1 in 10 has a drug or alcohol issue. What’s more alarming, over 800,000 suicides are reported each year, globally.
As such, mental health and addiction are conversations that need to be had, in any group. Further, everyone can benefit from tools and training that help identify a mental health or substance abuse issue with oneself or a loved one or coworker.
With an extensive list of accolades, education and experience, Joyce Marter has devoted her career to studying and helping her clients dealing with mental illness and substance abuse issues. Her passion for destigmatizing mental illness and her keen knowledge of practical tools for overcoming mental health issues has made her one of the most sought-after mental health speakers in the country.
Additionally, she has helped thousands live happier and healthier lives through her professional expertise, as well as helped businesses run smoother and more productively by focusing on employee mental wellness.
Joyce will work directly with you for your fundraiser speaking event to ensure that your audience is not only engaged but has the tools they need going forward. Time and time again, her clients share positive feedback and utilize her expertise in the future because the information she presents is so well-received.
As a renowned mental health professional, motivational speaker, CEO, corporate trainer, keynote speaker, Licensed Professional Counselor and author whose work has been consumed by over 1 billion worldwide, Joyce Marter understands what it takes to achieve optimum mental wellness. And her life’s work has been to educate on and share this invaluable information with others.
Having been featured in countless media outlets, including The Huffington Post, MSN, CNN, MTV and Inc. Magazine, Joyce’s credibility and skill is matched only by her compassionate nature, thus, making her speaking engagements and training sessions unparalleled.
Whether you are looking for a mental health, behavioral health or addiction specialist for your fundraiser or event, Joyce works with you to construct and deliver a high-quality, engaging and resourceful event that your audience will utilize long after the presentation is over.
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Joyce Marter has been a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor since 1998 and is the Founder of Urban Balance, an insurance-friendly counseling practice she started and grew to over 100 therapists working from nine locations during her tenure as CEO. She is the Chair of the Midwest Region of the American Counseling Association, a Past-President of the Illinois Counseling Association, and a two-term Past-President of the Illinois Mental Health Counselors Association. With a background in Employee Assistance Program and addictions treatment, Joyce Marter is passionate about providing corporate training seminars and keynote addresses to promote mental health in the workplace. She is a member of the National Speakers Association and has been a mental health public speaker for over twenty years. Joyce Marter is a blogger for PsychCentral and The Huffington Post and is routinely consulted as an expert by the media. She has been featured in such outlets as The Wall Street Journal, U.S. News & World Report, CNN, Real Simple Magazine and MTV.