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At SPFLEC we empower our clients to live a better life, by exploring and connecting with what really matters. Helping you move beyond survival to a life where you thrive in a haven of emotional health and positive life transformation. We are committed to serving with compassion and care while providing an affordable, quality, safe and non - judgmental experience. Our aim is to come alongside you w
hile providing tools to bring about a change in thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. We integrate both traditional and faith-informed approaches, uniquely tailored to each client's needs.
27/08/2025
💛 Virtual Support for Caregivers – You Are Not Alone 💛
You are invited to join tonight’s virtual support group session hosted by The All Cancers Group TT
We are honored to have Mrs. Denielle Placide as our facilitator, bringing both professional insight and personal experience. Having walked the caregiver journey herself during her husband’s cancer battle in 2022—by God’s grace, he is well today—Mrs. Placide understands the challenges, emotions, and rewards of caregiving.
Caregivers, your well-being matters. Join us tonight and be encouraged. 💛
26/08/2025
✨ Reflecting with Gratitude ✨ Families in Action
We extend heartfelt thanks to Families in Action for hosting the recently concluded 10-session Train the Trainer Facilitator Training, in which our team members, Hasley and Denielle Placide, had the privilege to participate.
This training has been both enriching and empowering, equipping our team with enhanced skills and tools to better serve the individuals, families, and communities we walk alongside.
We especially acknowledge and appreciate the facilitators, Dionne Guischard and Ken Ramdhan, for their guidance, expertise, and encouragement throughout the journey.
This investment strengthens our ability to fulfill our mission of creating spaces of hope, healing, and harmony.
We are truly grateful for the opportunity to learn, grow, and continue this important work with renewed capacity. 🙏💙
23/08/2025
Men, Your Life is Worth Living🫂
Maybe today you’re tired. Tired of trying. Tired of pretending you’re okay. Tired of carrying responsibility, financial stress, broken relationships, or disappointment that feels too heavy to bear.
Maybe you feel invisible. Maybe you feel like nobody notices the battles you fight. Maybe you’ve even wondered if it would be easier not to wake up tomorrow.
But hear this truth:
👉 You are not invisible.
👉 You are not disposable.
👉 You are not beyond hope.
Your life carries meaning—more than you know. Someone needs your laughter. Someone needs your wisdom. Someone needs your presence. And even if you feel empty right now, God is not finished with your story.
📌 If you’re struggling, you don’t have to carry it alone. Please reach out. Speak to a friend, a pastor, a counselor, or someone you trust. There is no shame in needing help.
And to every man reading this—remind yourself daily:
✅My life is valuable.
✅My pain does not define me.
✅My story is still unfolding
You can contact
Lifeline 645-2800 or 800-5588
Su***de Prevention Hotline 800- ( COPE)
There is hope .. Let's Talk
23/08/2025
🙏✨ Gratitude Post ✨🙏
A heartfelt thank you to Dr. Royette James and her amazing organization, A Balanced Mind, for trusting Mrs. Denielle Placide, to facilitate last Wednesday’s workshop:
“Parenting After Loss: Supporting Your Child Through Grief and Trauma.” 💔🌱
It was truly an honor to hold space for parents and caregivers navigating one of life’s hardest journeys.
The workshop explored how grief impacts children, how to support them while Parents are also grieving and how to rebuild hope and connection in the midst of loss.
Dr. Royette, thank you for your vision, your trust, and your commitment to emotional wellness. 🙌 May your work continue to bless families and communities with healing and resilience. 💖
21/08/2025
From the time they’re young, boys are told:
“Be strong.”
“Don’t cry.”
“Shake it off.”
So they grow into men who keep everything bottled up inside—anger, sadness, fear, disappointment, heartbreak. They smile on the outside but silently bleed on the inside.
But here’s the truth:
🚫 Bottling it up doesn’t make you strong—it makes you heavy.
💡 Real strength is saying, “I need to talk.”
💡 Real strength is choosing to feel instead of going numb.
💡 Real strength is letting someone in.
Men, you don’t have to carry that pressure alone. You were not built to hold it all in—you were built for connection, for honesty, for healing.
📞 If you’re struggling, please reach out. Call Lifeline 645-2800 or 800-5588. Someone is ready to listen, 24/7.
National Su***de Prevention Hotline 800-COPE
You can also reach out to us or your preferred therapist.
💙 To every man reading this: Your feelings are valid. Your voice matters. Your life is worth living
12/08/2025
Get ready for another exciting learning experience hosted by A Balanced Mind
EMPOWERING THE PARENT SERIES WEBINAR #6
🌟 Parenting After Loss: Supporting Your Child Through Grief & Trauma 🌟
Losing a loved one can leave deep emotional scars — not just for us as parents, but for our children too.
💔 This FREE parenting webinar will equip you with the tools, understanding, and hope needed to help your child heal while navigating your own grief journey.
Topics Include:
✅ Understanding grief in children
✅ Supporting your child through the pain
✅ When the parent is grieving too
✅ Healing tools & resources
✅ Rebuilding hope & connection
👩🏫 Facilitator: Ms. Denielle Placide, M.A.
Certified Grief & Trauma Professional
🔗 Meeting ID: 840 0584 8397 | Passcode: 949607
Let’s come together to support our children and ourselves in the healing process. 💛
08/08/2025
THE COURAGE TO HEAL 💥Countdown is ON!
A Masterclass for Women Who Are Ready to Face the Pain, Find Their Voice, and Heal for Real.
📅 New Start Date: August 11
🚪 Spots Are Almost Gone!
You’ve carried the weight long enough.
Now it’s time to do the work that sets you free.
This isn’t just another class.
It’s your turning point.
Gratitude & Reflection 🌟
We are deeply honoured to have have Mrs. Placide represented the Trinidad and Tobago Association of Psychologists as part of the Arthur Ashe Institute of Urban Health Internship Project here in Trinidad and Tobago.
This meaningful collaboration between COSTAATT and the Arthur Ashe Institute focused on advancing mental health education among our youth — and what a powerful journey it has been! For three enriching weeks in July, she engaged with brilliant student interns who explored the timely and important topic of Advocating Wellness in the digital Age.
It was truly a privilege for Mrs..Placide to work alongside esteemed TTAP colleagues to guide, support, and witness the growth of these young minds. Their passion, curiosity, and commitment to social impact were nothing short of inspiring. The programme culminated in a heartwarming student graduation and research presentation, and she left feeling renewed, hopeful, and proud of the work we are doing to invest in the next generation.
Congratulations, Ezekiel Stephen, Joanna Stephen, and Toviel Richards, for a Job well done.
To the organizers, partners, students, and fellow professionals—thank you for the opportunity to contribute to such a transformative experience. Together, we are making mental health education more accessible, relevant, and empowering for our communities. 💙🧠✨
02/08/2025
Where were we last Saturday? 🧐 We were honored to be part of the Rise and Reclaim Conference—an empowering event focused on helping teen girls move beyond aggression and bullying.
A heartfelt thank you to Dr. Royette James and her incredible organization for inviting one of our counsellors, Mrs. Denielle Placide, to speak. 🙏
A Balanced Mind
Every part of the conference impacted the participants. We also acknowledge the professional work of the Moderator Bharath
Mrs. Denielle Placide session, "Strengthening the Spiritual You," offered powerful faith-based tools to help young girls reconnect with their identity, inner strength, and purpose. 💫
We’re proud to be part of the movement that’s shaping emotionally and spiritually healthy girls—one life at a time. 💛✨
01/08/2025
Emancipation Day 🇹🇹 | Breaking Invisible Chains: The Work of Mental Freedom 🖤
Today, Trinidad and Tobago commemorates Emancipation Day—a day marking the abolition of slavery and the beginning of freedom for our African ancestors. But as a mental health practice, we know: not all chains are physical.
Many of us are still shackled in the mind—carrying inherited trauma, emotional wounds, internalized shame, and unspoken pain.
✅Psychological slavery can look like:
✅People-pleasing rooted in fear of rejection
✅Self-sabotage from unresolved childhood wounds
✅Silencing yourself to avoid conflict
✅Feeling responsible for everyone’s emotions but your own
✅Repeating generational cycles you never chose
"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed." – Steve Biko
"True emancipation begins the moment you stop living in survival mode and start choosing healing. You were not born to live in bondage—mind, heart, or soul." – Safe Place FLEC
This Emancipation Day, we challenge you to go deeper. True freedom includes liberation of the self—from patterns, mindsets, and emotions that no longer serve your healing.
🎯5 Ways to Begin the Journey to Psychological Emancipation:
🧠 Acknowledge Internalized Beliefs
Many of our thoughts weren’t born with us—they were taught through fear, survival, or control.
🧳 Name the Generational Baggage
Trauma is often passed down until someone decides to heal it.
💬 Reclaim Your Voice
Silence was survival once. Now, it may be self-abandonment.
🧍🏽♀️ Reconnect with Your Identity
Rediscover who you are outside of pain, perfectionism, and performance.
🛠️ Do the Deep Work
Therapy. Boundaries. Self-compassion. These are not luxuries—they are tools of emancipation.
🕊️ Emancipation is not just history—it’s a daily decision to break the invisible chains and reclaim your mind, body, and soul.
At Safe Place Family Life Enrichment Centre, we believe:
Healing is a revolutionary act. Wholeness is your inheritance. Freedom is your right.
29/07/2025
📖✨The Courage to Heal Masterclass ..You’ve survived the pain... but are you ready to heal?
Too many of us are silently bleeding—carrying emotional wounds that are invisible to others but deeply felt by us.
🛑 You smile in public but cry in private.
🛑 You’re strong for everyone else, but secretly tired of pretending.
🛑 You’ve buried the pain, but it keeps resurfacing—in your relationships, your choices, and your self-worth.
It’s time to stop coping and start healing.
Join us for The Courage to Heal—a transformative online masterclass where we don’t just talk about healing...
We begin it. 💥
✨ In this Group session, you will:
✔️ Learn how unresolved pain shows up in your daily life
✔️ Discover what’s been blocking your healing
✔️ Gain practical tools to break toxic emotional cycles
✔️ Reconnect with your sense of purpose
✔️ Begin writing a new chapter—whole, healed, and free
Your wounds may not be your fault… but your healing is your responsibility. Hidden wounds can't heal without intentional care.
Sis, don’t stay stuck in survival mode. It’s time to heal. It’s time to rise. It’s time to live again.
Will you take the first step? 💪🏽💛
15/07/2025
Grief evolves rather than ends.
Instead of “ending,” grief often transforms. What was once a sharp, raw ache might become a quiet companion. We learn to carry it differently. It integrates into who we are, influencing how we love, live, and relate to others. “You don’t get over it, you get through it. It doesn’t get better, it gets different.”
The permanence of loss means grief is part of love.
The only "cure" for grief is to grieve—and in doing so, you honor not only what you’ve lost, but also what it means to you. Grow through what you go through.
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Grief is not a weakness. It’s evidence of love, of value, of connection. The only "cure" for grief is to grieve—and in doing so, you honor not only what you’ve lost, but also what it meant to you.
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We launched Safe Place Family Life Enrichment Centre Ltd for Counseling and Life Coaching services in January 2020. Birthed out of our own story, journey, and pursuit back to wholeness, healing, and unity.
Now we can tell you that relationships with others can be the source of our greatest joys and satisfactions, but they can also be the source of our greatest challenges, distress, and heartache.
Over our 21 years of marriage, we had our “for better and for worse moments". However, it was in the “seemly worse" that the stability of our relationship was threatened to the point of considering a divorce. In those moments we struggled to find a space to connect deeply, navigate life’s challenges, and be healed from various situations without judgment.
Early in our Christian walk, everything was considered “taboo” and the idea of us coming forward with courtship and or marital problems was not open for discussion.
We needed a safe place that was non-judgemental and secure to have those hard conversations. We needed a safe place to help us navigate life's challenges and uncertainties.
We went on a search for that safe place to reclaim our life and relationship but found very little. In spite of our difficult search for our relationship healing, we give God praise that He intervened and brought healing to our relationship.
It took time daily investment of Love & Respect. We base our marriage on Christ-like love. His love never fails. We began to heal when we embrace the idea that our marriage is a covenant designed by God and not a contract by Man. It is sacrificial and permanent.
Looking back, our season of healing was difficult to face alone and we did not want others to experience what we did. We know what it feels like, to be judged and looked upon with disappointment.
Birthed during our courtship and now a reality 21 years later. We can now say that God was preparing us with the tools, experience, and, what we considered then, as hardships were actually breakthroughs to help others.
We learned that “Every marriage is either moving toward ONENESS or drifting towards ISOLATION”
God changed the game for us, ( Genesis 50:20) and we are now able to do and provide for others what we did not get. That being a Safe, Open, and Non-Judgmental place to reclaim one's life, family, marriage, or relationship.
Since then we have moved from survival in our relationship to emotional healing and positive life transformation. We hold on to the words of our wedding song:
