Media & Speaking Inquiries

Keri Williams is an experienced speaker available for keynotes, seminars, workshops, panels, and breakout sessions across a wide range of venues. She has presented to parent and caregiver groups, educators and school staff, mental health professionals, adoption and foster care organizations, faith communities, and nonprofit and advocacy events. Whether the audience is fifteen people in a church basement or several hundred at a conference, Keri tailors her material to the room.

“As a thoughtful speaker with RAD parenting experience, Keri Williams establishes a quick rapport with an audience. Her calm demeanor, honest and clear perspective, and interesting content make it easy for people to pay attention and grasp new concepts. Our nonprofit organization continues to invite her back to our Navigating RAD event every year and she always delivers.” — Nichole Noonan, RAD Advocates

Keri speaks on adoption, foster care, developmental trauma, attachment, caregiver well-being, and navigating the mental health and education systems. She draws on lived experience as a parent, the research behind her books, and years of connection with the caregiver community. Sessions can be adapted to a 20-minute talk, a half-day workshop, or anything in between.

Speaking Topics

Understanding Developmental Trauma and Attachment

  • Introducing foster and adoptive parents to developmental trauma — what it is, how it shows up, and why it changes everything
  • What Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) really is — and the myths that get in the way
  • How early trauma rewires a child’s brain and nervous system
  • Recognizing the signs and symptoms of attachment disruption

Navigating Systems and Services

  • How to access mental health services for your child — a practical roadmap
  • Working effectively with educators and school staff to support a child affected by trauma
  • Communicating with therapists so your child actually gets the right help
  • Advocating for your child within the medical, educational, and child welfare systems
  • When home isn’t working: understanding residential and alternative placement options
  • Therapeutic approaches that help, including emerging tools like ILF neurofeedback

The Realities of Parenting Through Trauma

  • The 10 Ugly Truths parents of kids with developmental trauma must understand
  • Siblings and secondary trauma — supporting the whole family
  • Discipline and structure that work for a child with RAD
  • Why adoption stories aren’t fairy tales — setting honest expectations before and after placement
  • Parenting an adult child with RAD: safety, boundaries, and the realities after 18

Caregiver Support and Self-Care

  • Caregiver burnout, compassion fatigue, and the hidden cost of caregiving
  • Reframing self-care for parents who have no time, energy, or margin
  • Redefining success when you’re raising a child with complex needs
  • Building a support network when others don’t understand
  • Faith, resilience, and finding hope on a hard road

For Professionals

  • What educators need to know about students affected by early trauma
  • What therapists and clinicians often miss about RAD and the families living it
  • “Caring for the caregiver”: why supporting parents is part of supporting the child
  • Building trauma-informed practices that include — rather than overlook — the family

Topics can be combined, condensed, or customized for your specific audience and time slot. Keri is also glad to discuss new topics suited to your event.

Booking and Media Inquiries

To invite Keri to speak, request an interview, or discuss a custom session, contact Keri Williams here.