Black Mental Health Summit coming to Winston-Salem in May

On Saturday, May 17, Reset and Heal, a local mental health consulting firm, will host Winston-Salem’s first Black Mental Health Summit. The event, which will be held at The Enterprise Conference and Event Center, is designed to help attendees better understand the social disadvantages of mental health and psychological issues facing the Black community. Rest and Heal was started by licensed clinical therapist-associate and Winston-Salem native Alexia Mitchell. Mitchell said she started the firm to help others in the community after learning to deal with her own emotions and grief.   In 2020, Mitchell lost her grandfather and her mother to COVID-19 over a span of two months. Although she has more than 15 years of experience working in the mental health field, Mitchell said mentally she was in a space she had never been before. “My mental health took a plummet at the time,” she said.  Shortly thereafter, Mitchell took guardianship of her younger brother who is differently abled, and he became her will to keep going.  “He has been my driving force for the past three and a half years. I got guardianship of him and I just kept going,” Mitchell said. “Yes, the grief still lingers on, but...