Joan E. Childs
Professional Inspirational Keynote Speaker

“Desire is possibility seeking expression.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

After nearly 47 years in private practice healing the wounds of clients who’s lives had been fractured from personal traumas, Joan E. Childs  has decided to take her personal and professional knowledge, skills and experience, and bring it to the next level; that of becoming an inspirational professional keynote speaker. As a professional keynote speaker and a resource program presenter specializing in women’s issues, couple and family relationships, self-actualization and grief and loss, she has the qualifications and credibility to impact her audiences and effect positive change.


Video: The Duality of Gun Violence and Mental Illness, presented by Joan E. Childs on April 30, 2019 at NSU Lifelong Learning Institute, Ft Lauderdale, FL.

The Duality of Gun Violence and Mental Illness. My name is Joan E. Childs and I thank you all for coming here today. This is not a political presentation. I willnot be talking about gun rights or gun control because I’m saying in the field that I know which is mental health.

About 21 years ago in July of 1998 my beautiful daughter leapt to her death from a 15 story building. There are more suicides than there are homicides 37% homicide 63% suicides okay and 23,000 use a gun to end their lives.

If you were to suddenly cure schizophrenia bipolar disorder and depression violent crime in the United States would fall by only 4%. That’s a major piece of information. The other was last Valentine’s Day at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school right close by. Two of my grandchildren went to school like any other day thinking that they would come home and it would be like any other day.

Fortunately I can say that they survived but they were subjected to the most heinous crime a massacre of 17 of the students and coach. The way I coped with it and moved on because you have to move on is by doing the work that I do by reaching out to families who lose children or loved ones and helping them deal with grief and loss.

The gun violence that’s been going on has made such an impact on the psychology of people in communities we recognize that acts of violence by people with mental illness are usually the result of lack needed mental health services.
Schizophrenia and bipolar disorders usually don’t show up until they’re in
their early 20s

Speaking Topics

  • Owning Your Choices
  • Why Can’t a Man Be More Like a Woman?
  • Hit and Run—The Bait and Switch
  • Don’t Fix It! Just Listen! Be Present!
  • Please Don’t Judge, Criticize, Blame, Stonewall, or Avoid Me
  • A Bridge Over Troubled Waters
  • Take Charge of Your Fears and Reclaim Your Value
  • here, Oh Where, Has My Sexy Self Gone?
  • Coping with Post Traumatic Breakup Disorder
  • A Conscious Relationship
Joan E. Childs

JOAN E. CHILDS
Tel: (954) 568-1004
Fax: (954) 925-9613
Email: joanechilds@gmail.com