SPEAKING FOR HEALING, RESTORATION & GROWTH
Meaningful conversations that help audiences reflect, heal, and move forward with greater understanding and hope.
As a speaker and educator, Shetress Woods draws from her kingdom values and clinical experience to facilitate meaningful conversations about subjects that are often difficult to discuss openly. She brings together psychological insight, practical guidance, and a faith-informed perspective on healing and personal growth. Through her presentations, she offers audiences thoughtful insight, encouragement, and meaningful opportunities for reflection that support greater self-understanding, emotional well-being, healing, and personal empowerment.
Audience & Settings
Participants Are Invited To
Develop greater insight into emotional and relational experiences.
Reflect without pressure to disclose personal experiences.
Gain practical guidance that can be applied beyond the presentation.
Recognize the strength, freedom, and empowerment that can emerge through healing.
Leave with encouragement, hope, and meaningful next steps.
Speaking Presentations are Customized
All speaking presentations suit conferences, churches, women’s retreats, community events, organizations, professional groups, and other gatherings seeking meaningful, engaging experiences that can stand alone or complement a larger event.
Keynote Presentations
Focused 60–90 minute presentations built around a clear, compelling message. Each keynote combines professional insight, meaningful reflection, and practical takeaways to help audiences deepen their understanding, consider new perspectives, and leave with ideas they can carry beyond the event.
Half-Day Workshops
Interactive 3–4 hour sessions that move beyond presentation into deeper exploration and participation. Workshops provide time for teaching, guided reflection, discussion, practical exercises, and application so participants can actively engage with the topic and connect it to their personal or professional experiences.
Full-Day Professional Trainings
Comprehensive learning experiences developed for organizations, agencies, ministry leaders, and helping professionals who need more extensive trauma-informed education. Full-day trainings allow for in-depth instruction, case-based discussion, practical skill development, and opportunities to apply concepts to real-world situations
Virtual Presentations
Virtual presentations offer an engaging and accessible way to bring meaningful education and reflection to audiences wherever they are. Keynotes, workshops, trainings, and educational conversations are thoughtfully facilitated to encourage participation, deepen understanding, and provide practical takeaways that can be applied beyond the session.
In-Person Speaking Presentation
In-person speaking presentations provide an engaging and interactive experience that combines trauma-informed education, meaningful reflection, and practical application. Participants are invited to explore important topics, examine patterns and perspectives, and consider how the information connects to their own lives, relationships, or professional roles.
Signature Presentations
Designed for adult women who experienced childhood sexual abuse and are having difficulty experiencing sexual pleasure within marriage. This trauma-informed presentation explores how childhood sexual trauma can affect desire, arousal, safety, body connection, and intimacy while helping women begin reclaiming pleasure without pressure, shame, or performance expectations.
Reclaiming Pleasure After Sexual Trauma
Reclaiming Pleasure Together After Sexual Trauma
Creating safety, communication, and intimacy when one spouse experienced sexual abuse in childhood. This presentation is for both spouses and focuses on rebuilding intimacy together through safety, consent, communication, patience, and mutual understanding.
Additional Speaking Topics
Grieving And Reclaiming What Sexual Trauma Took
Explores the grief that may arise from the ways childhood sexual abuse can affect a woman’s sense of safety, trust, voice, identity, connection, and choice. The presentation supports adult survivors in acknowledging what was impacted, honoring what remained, and reclaiming the parts of themselves they want to strengthen or restore.
Behind Closed Doors When Intimacy Is Used as a Weapon
Examines sexual narcissism, coercion, withholding, pressure, manipulation, and other ways intimacy may be used for power and control within a relationship. The presentation helps adult women name harmful patterns, reduce self-blame, and strengthen emotional and sexual boundaries.
Her Body. Her Voice. Her Choice.
A Trauma-Informed Journey Toward Bodily Autonomy, Self-Expression, and Self-Determination After Sexual Trauma
Are You Giving Away The Oil You Need
Explores how trauma, relational conditioning, people-pleasing, and over-responsibility can lead women to give away the emotional, spiritual, and practical resources they need for themselves. Participants learn to recognize depleted boundaries, strengthen self-trust, and protect what they need without guilt or shame.
Explores why healing from sexual and psychopathic abuse can feel as though the perpetrator got away with the wrongdoing or the survivor’s story no longer matters. This presentation affirms that recovery does not excuse the harm, erase the truth, remove accountability, or require silence.
Healing Is Not Betrayal™
Honoring Your Story While Reclaiming Your Life
Carrying the Love While Reclaiming Your Life
Explores the guilt that can arise when life begins moving forward after the death of a loved one. This presentation affirms that healing, experiencing joy, and continuing to live do not erase the love, diminish the significance of the relationship, or mean forgetting.
INVITE SHETRESS TO SPEAK
Bring a compassionate, trauma-informed, and faith-informed conversation to your conference, church, retreat, organization, or professional event.