Keynote Experiences
Amy’s keynotes are shaped by both lived experience and years of clinical insight. They create moments of connection and transformation. Engaging stories and relatable scenarios reframe how we see recovery, youth mental health, and suicide prevention.
Speaking From the Scars: From the Wounds to the Woman I Am
How the stories that broke me became the stories that built me
Description
In this deeply personal keynote, Amy shares her journey through eating disorders, trauma, bipolar disorder, suicidality, and recovery — and the redemptive process that transformed her wounds into scars. With raw honesty and grounded hope, she invites audiences to reframe their own stories: not as evidence of damage, but as proof of survival.
Through storytelling and reflection, this keynote explores healing as integration rather than erasure, and the courage it takes to live forward without denying what shaped us.
Audience Fit
Conferences, women’s events, survivor gatherings, universities, and organizations focused on trauma recovery, mental health, or empowerment.
Beneath the Surface: The Pain Killing Our Kids
Description
Teen suicide, substance use, eating disorders, and emotional crises are rising — and beneath the statistics is one shared truth: pain.
In this powerful keynote, Amy takes audiences beneath the surface of the youth mental health crisis using lived experience, storytelling, and student art to reveal what often goes unseen. She reframes crisis behaviors as expressions of unresolved pain and introduces The Bridge — a simple, trauma-informed conversation framework that helps adults respond with presence instead of fear.
This keynote moves audiences from helplessness to hope, and from silence to meaningful action.
Audience Fit
Parents, educators, and youth-serving adults.
Plan B: Changing How We See Suicide
Awareness doesn’t save lives — connection does.
Description
We don’t prevent suicide by memorizing warning signs. We prevent suicide by becoming someone a young person can trust with their pain.
In this deeply human keynote, Amy shares the night that changed everything — when her daughter attempted suicide — and the question that became her mission: Who do I need to be for my teen? Rooted in lived experience and social-work practice, Plan B reframes suicide prevention through connection, presence, and empathy.
Audiences are introduced to the core principles of The Bridge method and leave with a clearer understanding of how to become a safe place when it matters most.
Audience Fit
Parents, educators, school and community leaders, youth-serving organizations, and faith communities.
Trusted by Schools, Universities, and Organizations
Active member and collaborator within national and Arizona-based mental health and suicide prevention organizations.
