Dr. Beverley Tingling is the Director of Tingling’s Counselling Services and assists persons with Counselling and Social Work Services. She assists ethnically and culturally diverse clients in identifying, changing, and replacing negative or distressing thought patterns with more positive ones. She is the President of Caribbean Samiritans that assists persons in need in the black community. Her qualifications include two undergraduate degrees from York University, a Master’s degree from Dalhousie University, and a PhD from Walden University. Dr. Beverley was selected and approved as recipient of the 2024 Gracie Award that symbolizes the golden standard of excellence in community work, in giving back, in supporting the under-privileged in Ontario.