The Women’s Fund for Health Education and Resiliency, a nonprofit providing Houston-area women and girls with the tools needed to be advocates for their health, will host a “Coping with Stress” presentation exploring the importance of understanding stress and how to address it as we age with guest speaker Valerie George on Wednesday, September 20, 2023, from Noon to 1 p.m.

To ensure positive outcomes for women and girls, The Women’s Fund in partnership with Kelsey-Seybold Clinic offers “Health and Wellness Awareness” presentations at no cost to the public. Guests will have the option to join virtually or in person at Kelsey-Seybold Clinic’s Berthelsen Main Campus, Conference Room 2.7 located at 2727 W. Holcombe Blvd., Houston 77025. Lunch will be provided for those attending in person.

Valorie George is an individual and group psychotherapist in private practice in Houston. Trained at the Baylor College of Medicine’s Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic, she enjoys working with clients with an analytically informed, psychodynamic lens. She has been trained in skills-based behavioral approaches as well. She works with The Petoskey Center, a mental health Intensive Outpatient Program, where she facilitates interpersonal process, mentalizing and skills groups. George is the President Emeritus of the Houston Group Psychotherapy Society.

For more than 44 years, The Women’s Fund has educated girls and women in the Houston area through classes, workshops, lectures, and publications that teach resiliency skills and relate those skills to current and future health risks. Dedicated to ensuring positive health outcomes for individuals and communities, The Women’s Fund serves close to 12,000 women and adolescent girls and distributes over 10,000 publications each year at no cost.

For more information on The Women’s Fund visit www.thewomensfund.org and to register for the “Coping with Stress” presentation, visit Health and Wellness Awareness Series - Growing Pains: Coping and developing with stress through the lifespan - The Women's Fund (thewomensfund.org).