Our Founder

Yvonne S. Gates-Perry
Founder and President
Since starting her Administrative career in healthcare, she has always had a passion for behavioral health. During her 30-plus years in healthcare, she worked for a Psychiatrist for more than 14 years in Alton, Illinois. Yvonne learned a great deal about mental health diagnoses and was inspired to learn more. She has always wanted to help people to stay calm and learn techniques of how to work through confusion and the stress of the choices that are made throughout life.
As our Leader, Yvonne advocates and inspires the way forward, turning vision into reality. She has been planning Coping With Choices Therapy Group for many years. During that time and through the present, she has encouraged others to cope with difficult choices. Coping With Choices Therapy Group provides encouragement as a gateway to positive growth and strives to be the best source in our community for counseling with a goal of better mental health.
Her parents always inspired and encouraged her to leverage her expert knowledge, high moral values, and endless fortitude through all that she embarked upon, and now she wants to display these attributes throughout our group.
Coping With Choices Therapy Group has more than 35 years of behavioral counseling experience and offers affordable counseling to our clients.
Actions have consequences. Whether good or bad, there are always consequences.