Bonnie-Lee Randall, BSW, RSW, has practiced social work in her home province of Alberta for 25 years. Following an eleven-year tenure with Child Protection as an investigator and case manager for high-risk teens, Bonnie moved into an addictions counseling role for what was formerly the Alberta Alcohol & Drug Abuse Commission, and what is now Alberta Health Services Addictions& Mental Health. Over her fourteen years with Addictions, Bonnie became a member of the Palix Foundation’s Alberta Family Wellness Initiative where, as an already passionate and lifelong student of Systems Theory, Bonnie wholly embraced AFWI’s model of the Core Story of Brain Development, and Kaiser-Permanente’s Adverse Childhood Experiences Scale (ACEs). The concepts of toxic stress, ACEs, and the power of resiliency have become such cornerstones in Bonnie’s clinical practice that she has, in addition to being a proud contract presenter for the Canadian Centre For Threat Assessment & Trauma Response, developed her own workshop on Adverse Childhood Experiences, covering the effects of both adversity and resiliency upon the mind/body/spirit of a human being across the scope of a lifetime.
Bonnie, the mother of two outstanding daughters, lives in the Greater Edmonton Area with her husband, an educator and school principal of over 25 years. When she is not out on the road teaching, or in her counseling room educating, Bonnie is also the fiction novelist of three currently available titles: Divinity & The Python, Within The Summit’s Shadow, and the novella No Vacancy.
Bonnie’s personal philosophy contends that life is best lived with a relentless sense of humor, a willingness to hope, and an abundance of compassion. It is her goal to impart all information—be it psychoeducational, or her fiction, in precisely that spirit.