Brent Wolfskill is a Licensed Counselor who has been practicing for 24 years. He is a U.S. Navy veteran, best selling author, and the founder of Transitions Counseling Associates located in Grand Prairie, Texas. He has been married to Stephanie for over 28 years, and they have one daughter Brenna. Brent has a counseling Ministry of encouragement that is committed to helping wake people up to their true power within and to live a life of hope, peace, and love. Brent is most passionate about seeing people who feel broken, discouraged, defeated, and hopeless take their power back one day at a time and begin walking a healing journey of empowerment, peace, and love. “I feel grateful and privileged that I get to see this regularly in my counseling practice. It drives me,” he says.
Past-life traumas have significantly impacted Brent’s emotional health and counseling ministry. His journey of self-discovery has been layered throughout his lifetime starting at age 22, lasting up until today as he is almost 53 years old. “It has been a journey filled with trials, and triumphs, hills and valleys, victories, and lost battles. But it has all been used for fulfilling God’s purpose for my life, and as a testimony to God’s power when we surrender our lives to his authority and guidance,” he says. Brent is an overcomer with a powerful testimony that he finds joy in sharing with others who are stuck and in a state of imbalance.
When it comes to talking about mental illness or suicide. During Brent’s childhood, he shares that suicide was only talked about in his family in the context of being a sin against God and how one would end up in eternal hell if they took their own life. “I always thought of it as something that only white people did. Up until I was 20 years old, and I started to lose black friends to suicide. Other forms of mental illness were only discussed in my family in correlation to being weak and something being wrong with the person. There was a major negative stigma associated with it,” he shares. For many years, Brent struggled with anxiety and depression that was untreated because going to a clinical practitioner was not an option. “That early negative childhood programming had lasting effects and was the reason that I suffered from grief and unresolved trauma for many years.” Brent shares some of his journeys in the anthology, “There Is No Health Without Mental Health.” as a co-author. There Is No Health Without Mental Health is filled with the voices behind Mental Health. It was birthed from pain, hurt, trauma, uncertainty, and many other types of lived experiences. Brent and other authors share their stories to impact and impart NO MORE STIGMA, SILENCE, SHAME, AND SUICIDE!
There Is No Health Without Mental Health Anthology
Brent shares that he participated in this bestseller, where Venessa Abrams is the visionary because he thought it was a good cause and an opportunity to connect encouraging stories of overcoming in one book. “Being a part of an anthology allowed me to publish part of my story without having to do all of the work on my own, by being part of a team that was already committed to advancing mental health.” In the book, Brent talks about his life experiences and past traumas that shaped his mental and emotional health. He shares how a large part of his mental health foundation was rooted in his childhood. He struggled with issues of being alone after losing both parents during his childhood. By the age of 18, he had lost both of his grandparents. He dealt with school failure, parental termination by Child Protective Services, poverty, obesity, food addiction, unresolved trauma, sex addiction, poor self-esteem, drug and alcohol addiction, and chronic health issues. “The story does have a positive ending as I have been able to use all of those negative circumstances to transform my life on a remarkable healing journey that resulted in me becoming a mental health practitioner for the past 24 years,” he says. Brent hopes his chapter will encourage readers never to give up no matter what trials, adversity, or hardships they endure. “I want to assure them without a shadow of a doubt that God’s power is real, and that same healing grace that I was able to access is available to them in their darkest hours.” Brent wants people to know the power of gratitude.
I feel incredibly grateful and fortunate to be in the position that I am.
“Despite all the challenges, battles I have lost, and the difficulties I have faced, I know that God has been good to me.” He encourages people never to give up and to practice living their best life mentally, physically, and spiritually. “I want people to know that it is vital to protect your peace from the things of the world that would try to steal your joy. I would like to let people know that there is power in forgiveness, starting with yourself. And I would like for people to know that the greatest power on the earth is love, and how they can enrich their lives by beginning to study and practice forms of self-love that can expand to others around them. Peace be with you.”
