Dieula Previlon is the founder and executive director of ElevateHer International Ministries with a vision to empower women to heal from trauma. She is a Counselor/Life Coach in private practice and an ordained minister in the ECC. Her professional career in counseling, pastoring and international ministry spans over 20 years.

She was born in Haiti as the fourth daughter in a family of eight. Dieula’s career and ministry today stem from her parents’ sacrificial act of love of immigrating to the US. They immigrated to the United States in the late 70s and she and her siblings later joined them in the late 80s. From around the eighth grade, Dieula has felt God calling her into a life of ministry. She left the Haitian community and went off to college at Rutgers University.% Soon after college, she became a middle school teacher as she concurrently volunteered in many church ministries; from youth to choir and prayer.% She once again left the Haitian community to attend Dallas Theological Seminary with a master’s in counseling where she was propelled into a journey of finding and embracing her passion and calling for empowering the people of God to a deeper relationship with Christ, self, and others through counseling, pastoring, and nonprofit leadership.

She later joined staff at a mega-church in Irving, TX as the Mission’s Pastor and Director. She spent many years ministering to the women of Lew Sterrett Jail in Dallas. She has also served Haiti, Kenya, DR Congo, Uganda, Brazil, and wherever the Lord called her to offer trauma healing training to women through her non-profit, ElevateHer International. She was also called to minister as associate pastor at an ECC Church in Carrollton, TX where she led mission’s initiatives and racial justice ministry.

She is currently a counselor supervisor and life coach in private practice with Watershed Group and Executive Director of ElevateHer International. She lives in Berlin, NJ with her husband of 25 years while her three young adult sons are discerning God’s call on their lives. She is excited about her upcoming book project on God’s posture towards the traumatized in: “The God that sees me”.